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Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIA v. WARWICKSHIRE

FIRST DAY’S PLAY. By Telegraph*—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Juno 29. The Australians hogan a match at Birmingham to-day against Warwickshire. The original intention was to make it a Midland Counties team, and as near an England eleven as possible, but this was abandoned. The county team is: Calthorpe, Bates. Rotherham, Scores, Waddy (the well-known X.S.W. batsman, now a cnaster at Rugby), Partridge, Nelson and Smith. It was gloriously hot weather, and the wicket was perfect. Calthorpe won the toss and went in. Collins, Macartney, Gregory, and McDonald were omitted from the visitors’ side. Ti e attendance numbered ten thousand.

Hendry .and Armstrong were the first howlers. The first wicket fell at 19, but 50 was put on by Bates and Charlesworth for the next. Mailey and Ryder took up the bowling, and the latter got Bates caught at short slip. Charlesworth quickly followed, caught at long on by Taylor, at the second attempt. Quaife and Waddy made a nice stand, taking the score from 77 to 150. Eighty-one were scored in the first hour's play. Waddy tit 11, including two fours, off Malley’s fifth over. Malley was bowling a proportion of full tosses. Quaife played one of them outside the off stump. Taylor, at long on, lost sight of the ball and ran in the opposite, direction. Waddy showed an attractive facility on the on side, and ran fast between the wickets. The partnership put. on 50 in l under three-quarters of an hour just before the lunch interval.. Every ball in one of Malley's overs was scored from—l 3 Ln ail. Quaife was eventually caught at slip, left

hand, low down, having been in two hours. Six runs later Waddy was stumped, off Armstrong. He had only been in 65 minutes, and was warmly applauded, the fieldsmen joining in.

On Santail, son of the old Warwickshire professional, joining Scorer, another good stand was made. Neither could do much with Armstrong, but they hit the other bowlers freely. Two hundred appeared in 175 minutes, Santali sending It up with a big on drive, which was his ninth fourer. The spectators were enthusiastic. At 221 he was caught off a mlss-htt, after fifty minutes’ rather venturesome batting. Scorer was bowled at the same total. Partridge (a Cambridge player) hit vigorously, but was missed by Bardsley off a running catch In the deep field. The innings closed foS the respectable total of 262. Scores:—

WARWICKSHIRE. First Innings. Calthorpe, c Mayne, b Hendry 11 Bates, c Armstrong, b Ryder 19 Charlesworth, c Taylor, b Malley 36 Quaife, c Hendry, b Ryder 30 Waddy, st Oldfield, b Armstrong 50 Smith', c B.irdsley, b Ryder 1 Scorer, b Hendry 23 Santali, c Ryder, b Hendry 39 Partridge, c Pellew, b Hendry 29 Rotherham, b Armstrong 8 Nelson, not out 2 Extras 14 Total 262 Bowling analysis—-Hendry took four wickets for 64 runs, Ryder three for 62, Armstrong two for GO, Malley one for 57, Pellew none for 5, AUSTRALIA’S INNINGS. FOUR WICKETS FOR 148. Received June 30, 9 pm. London, June 29. Calthorpe and Rotherham opened the attack when Bardsley and Andrews went to the wickets. Both are right-hand medium pacers, Rotherham having a high delivery b;U poor direction. Partridge, with a right-hand-ed medium, whirling delivery, went on in place of Calthorpe at 26, which had taken twenty minutes. At 34 Andrews played one from Partridge on to his wicket. He nad made 11, and Bardsley was now 17. Pellew joined Bardsley, and the latter, when 21, gave a hot chance of a one-handed catch to Calthorpe at slip. Soon afterwards Calthorpe missed one coming straight at him from Bardsley. Fifty appeared in thirty-three m’nutes, • Warwickshire’s fielding and picking. up was very patchy, and fully a dozen runs were lost, occasioning remarks from the spectators. At 92 Nelson removed Pellew’s bails. The retiring batsman made 30, and Bardsley was 42. Taylor was the newcomer, and runs came quicker, with plenty of scoring on the leg side, and a hundred camo up !n an hour, Bardsley’s share being 50. Soon afterwards Bardsley got in front to Rotherham. Be had made 60. Taylor was 16 and the total was 124. Bardsley’s score included ten fours. Mayne joined Taylor. Santali unissed Taylor with a low skimming chance at mid-on. Then Mayne, who had made 5, was caught by Partridge at first slip, off Calthorpe. Taylor was 24, and the total 137. Ryd«.c played out time with Taylor. Scores:— AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Bardsley, lbw, b Rotherhanf 60 Andrews, played on, b Partridge 11 Pellew, b Nelson ..... 30 TayJor, not out . - . 25 Mayne, c Partridge,‘*b Calthorpe 5 Ryder, not out .. .... .... 6 Extras 11 Total (for four wickets) 148 MEDALS FOR AUSTRALIANS. * London, June 29. Armstrong has received eleven gold medals, given respectively to each Australian player participating in the hundredth test, and inscribed "England v. Australia, the hundredth test, won by Australia, May, 1921, from F. R. Spofforth.". Each medal is also Inscribed with the name of the player. PROPOSED ENGLISH TOUR. OPPOSED BY AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The council of the Auckland Cricket Association to-night expressed strong opposition to the proposed visit from an English team this season. It was considered that under present conditions a visit was financially Irapossible.