CRICKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9583, 1 September 1909, Page 5

CRICKET.

TOUR OP THE AUSTRALIANS. MATCH AGAINST M.C.C. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 31, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, August 30. The Australian cricketers to-day commenced a match against a Marylebone team. The weather was fine, and the wicket fast. Foster won the toss, and sent in Tarrant and Moon. The first wicket went at 22, after twenty minutes' play, Tarrant failing to stop one of Cotter's. Moon took forty minutes by steady play to make his score. He was eventually bowbd off his pad. Two for 41. Ten runs later Llewellyn played on a ball from Cotter, and the same bowler also captured Gillingham, making his record four for 61. riardstaff was seventy minutes at the wicket. He gave a chance from a return to Armstrong, when he was 24. Five for 97. Foster was taken cleverly in the slips, and Austin went the same way, afcer forty minutes' steady play, the sixth wicket falling at 108. Seven for 141. [ Armstrong accounted for the remaining three wickets, which added 47 to the total. The eighth wicket i went at 164, and the ninth at 178. The innings latsed a hundred and ninety minutes. M.C.C. First Innings. Tarrant, c Laver, b Cotter 10 Moon, b Cotter 20 Hardstaff, b Armstrong 34 Llewellyn, played on, b Cotter 5 Gillingham, b Cotter 7 Foster, c Armstrong, b Noble 23 Austin, c Laver. b Cotter 24 A. E. Relf, not out 34 Thompson, 1.b.w., b Armstrong 14 Buckenham, b Armstrong 6 Fielder, b Armstrong 4 Sundries 7 Total 188 Bowling analysis.—Cotter, five for 80; O'Connor, none for 12; Armstrong, f<mr for 41; Macartney, none for 71; Noble, one for 3; Laver, none for 28. Australia has lost one wicket for 118: Noble, not out 63 Bardsley, Ibw, b Buckenham 0 Ransford, not out 50