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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1921, Page 5

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ENGLAND v. N.S.W, VISITORS MAKE 427. NEW SGUTH WALES BATTING. By Tabgrapb.—Press Assu.—Copyrixit Received Feb, 20, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Feb. 20. Several showers and ominous looking clouds during the forenoon suggested little if any play on Saturday in the England-New South Wales match, but towards noon the rain ceased, enabling play to resume on a good wicket—slightly damp, but rapidly recovering under a strong southerly breeze. The overnight position was that England, in their firsE innings, had lost 0 wickets for 402. On resuming on Saturday the English “tail” tapered off considerably. Apparently afraid of the wicket, Collins (the Australian captain) relied on Mailey and Hendry. The former maintained an excellent length, judiciously, mixing “wrong ’uns” with his deliveries, and bagging three wickets for sixteen. The innings closed for 427. New South Wales opened disastrously, Bardsley flicking a fast one off Douglas to first slip, where Woolley brilliantly snapped up a right-handed catch low down. A few overs later Douglas broke through Collins’ defence, when the total was t two wickets for eleven. After lunch Gregory and Macartney scored at, the rate of two per minute off Douglas and Waddington, till Wilson and Parkin came on and steadied matters. Gregory reached fifty-four, and then touched one from Wilson, which Strudwick held. Macartney settled down to a patient innings, contenting himself with hitting occasional loose ones. He reached 50 in ninetyseven minutes. . After tea, Macartney and Andrews, playing under restraint, set out for England’s total. . Douglas tried six bowlers, but all were treated with the utmost respect. Macartney 'was unusually quiet, but he executed many brilliant all round the wicket strokes. At ninety-sevan he was dropped in the slips by Fender and Waddington in two balls in succession. He reached his century just under three hours. Andrews’ fifty-four was a stylish contribution. With tfie last ball of the day Douglas knocked down Macartney’s off peg. The attendance was eighteen thousand. Following are he scores: ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, c Collins, b Mailey 41 Rhodes, c Oldfield, b Mailey 50 Hendren, b Ma.iley * 103 b Makepeace, c Oldfield, b Mailey Woolley, c Gregory, b Punch Douglas, c Folkard, b Fender, 1.b.w., b Mai ley Wilson, I) Hendry .... Waddington, not out Strudwick, e Parkin, e Hendry, b Extras Total Bowling ana Collins, 0 f; Folkard, 0 M aca rtney Hendry, PaijM iB 8; &«■

AUSTRALIA First Innings. J. Bogle, c Rountree, b Player . 7 P. Richardeon, 1.b.w., b Player .... 36 A. W. Lampard, b Somervell . 32 A. Kippax, c Rowntree, b Player 33 A. E. Liddicut, b McLeod 37 A. Ratcliffe, b Smith 33 E. L, Waddy. b Smith 28 V. Hansford, not out 30 E. D. Forssberg, b Smith 0 P. Hornibrook, c Snedden, b Player 7 H. Ironmonger, b Smith 0 Extras 9 Total 285 Bowling analysis: Player took 4 wickets for 87; Smith, 4 for 63; Somervell, 1 for 47; Garrard, 0 for 13; Snedden, 0 for 6; Hemus, 0 for 28; McLeod, 1 for 27; Gillespie, 0 lor 28. TOUR OF AUSTRALIANS. February 22: Waikato, at Hamilton. February 25: Hawke’s Bay, at (Napier. March 1: Wairarapa, at Masterton. March 4: Wanganui. March 8: Minor Associations, at Wellington. March 11: Canterbury, at Christchurch. March 15: Ashburton. March 18: Otago, at Dunedin. March 23: Southland, at Invercargill. March 26: First test match, at Wellington. April 1: Second test match, at Auckland. MINOR ASSOCIATIONS. TEAM TO PLAY AUSTRALIA. Masterton, Last Night. Mr. D. C. Collins, sole selector of the New Zealand minor association representative team, has chosen the following players to meet the Australians at Wellington on March 8,9, and 10: Collins, Dacre (Wairarapa), Holland, Bernan (Wanganui), Neale (Nelson), Heskett (North Taranaki), Scholium, Drake, Blair (Poverty Bay), Arkwright (Rangitikei), McVicar (Manawatu), with R. F. London (Wanganui) twelfth man. CANTERBURY v, OTAGO. AN INTERESTING POSITION. • Dunedin, Feb. 19. To-day’s play took the Otago-Canter-bury cricket matetf to an interesting stage, in which advantage appears to be with Otago. Canterbury, who had lost five wickets for 60 on the first day, took to 147, chief!v through out)