CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1922, Page 5

CRICKET.

ENGLISH COUNTY PLAY. A SENSATIONAL GAME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 17, 5.5 p.m. London, June 16. Kent, 139 and 67 for one wicket, beat cester, 126 and 79. Freeman took seven wick-< ets for 35 runs. Somerset, 162 and 394, beat 'Leicester, Sland 201. Yorkshire, 339 for seven wickets (declared; Holmes 129), beat Middlesex, 138 and 180. Derbyshire, 294 and 274 for nine wickets (declared), beat Glamorgan, 152 and 134. Hampshire beat Warwickshire by 155 runs at Birmingham, after one of the most sensational games of cricket in history. Tennyson won the toss and put Warwickshire in. They scored 223, Hampshire following on after a disastrous innings, in which they scored 15. 1 They lost six wickets for 177 runs, and eight for 274. Then Llvesey joined Brown, and ‘n a partnership of 140 minutes added 177 for the ninth wicket, Brown making 172. The innings totalled 521 (Livesey not out 110). Wanting 314 to win. Warwickshire failed against Newman’s and Kennedy's bowling, and were al) oht for 158. Essex, 203 and 175 for five wickets (de-, dared; Russell not out 125), beat Sussex, 120 and 131. The position In the county cricket championship is: Surrey 82 points, Yorkshire 80, Notts 70, Kent 68, Middlesex 66, Hampabira. 60, Sussex 54, Essex 46.