CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 301, 17 June 1912, Page 2

CRICKET

THE TRIANGULAR CONTESTS. RESULTS TO DATE. May 28. Australia- v. Smith Africa; won by Australia by an innings and 88 runs. June 10. —England v. South Africa; won by England by an innings and 52 runs. REMAINING FIXTURES. June 24.—England v. Australia, at Lords. July B.—England v. South Africa, at Lords. July 15.—Australia v. South Africa, at Lords. July 2!>. —England v. Australia, at Manchester. Aug. s.—Australia v. South Africa, at Nottingham. Aug. 12.—England v. South Africa, at the Oval. Aug. 19.—England v. Australia, at the Oval.

The second triangular match is finished, and South Africa did very little better against England than they did against Australia, being beaten by an innings and 42 runs. It looks, therefore, at though the latest aspirants for international cricket honoris have not yet "arrived." Still theTe ia no certainty in cricket, and the Afrikanders may yet be found taking their part before, the contest is finished. As in the Australian match Barnes and Foster proved the destructive element, securing all the wickets on a treacherous pitch in the first innings, in which the two bowled unchanged. Foster took five wickets for 16 runs, and Barnes Jive for 25. They thus divided the wickets, and, what is more, were alone responsible for the team's downfall, as Foster clean-bowled his own victims and caught two of Barnes's victims, the latter also catching one. In the second innings Foster took three wickets for 54, and Barnes six for 85, the odd man being run out. Foster's average thus reads—eight wickets for 70 runs, and Barnes's 11 for 110. Equally remarkable is the average of Pegler, the South African trundler, seven for 65, in an innings of 337. In the last Ave overs he captured six wickets for seven runs, including Warner, Woolley and Jessop. Pegler also obtained the best average against the Australians with six for 105. This trundler is the first of the visitors, either Australian or African, to secure 30 wickets.

Spoonor's 11!) adds another century to the list against the South Africans, who have made one in test matches and have had three put up against them. Woolley, with 73, also batted finely for England, and, with Warner 30, Rhodes 30, and Fry 26, amassed the bulk of the total. Llewellyn, who made his first appearance with the visitors on tin's trip, was the greatest contributor, with 73, in the second innings. Much interest will now centre in the final match of the first round, between England and Australia. Macartney and Bardsley both made their first duck's egg of the tour against Yorkshire. Their failure in both innings will pull their averages down, Macartney, however, has got moving to some purposo against Lancashire.