BY TEN WICKETS

Wairarapa Age, 1 March 1927, Page 5

BY TEN WICKETS

WELLINGTON TEAM DEFEATED. SUPERIOR ABILITY. MELBOURNE ATTACK PREDOMINATES. WELLINGTON, February 28.' The superiority of Australian cricketing ability over that of New Zealand was again demonstrated at the Basin Reserve to-day when the visiting Melbourne Club team decesively outplayed tho Wellington representative eleven by ten wickets. Able howling by Vernon Ransford saw Wellington fall in their second innings for 214 runs, leaving the visitors 81 to get to win, a task Hendry and Sandford easily accomplished. Heavy rain on Saturday night and Sunday had thorqughly saturated the pitch which was drying under the influence of a bright sun and light southerly. W. Armstrong was missing from. the-Melbourne side, nursing an injured leg, and Dakin fielded sub, Ransford leading the side. Tho bright feature cf the innings was Badeock’s forceful display for forty, which included four fours. The innings which lasted 196 minutes closed for 214. Tho batting was better than on Friday when only 300 runs were scored for the whole day’s batting on a good wicket. The Australian fielding was very moderate. Dakin did useful work.

Requiring 81 runs to win Hendry and Sandford opened Melbourne’s innings and reached the winning total in 67 minutes. Details:— WELLINGTON. First Innings .. • i .. .. 300

Second Innings. Hiddleston, c Dakin, b Hendry ... 35 Bollings, c Hendry, b Ransford .. 24 Badcoek, b T. Armstrong 46 McGirr, si. Campbell, b Ransford 1 Lambert, b T. Armstrong 9 Lamason, b Ransford 15 Kortlang, b Ransford 20 Brice, b Ransford 9 Foley, run out 25 James, lbw, b Ebeling 15 Beard, not out 7 Extras ............... 14 Total 214 Bowling: Ransford, 5/81; Ebeling, 1/17; Jewell, 1/14; T. Armstrong, 1/43. MELBOURNE. First Innings .. .. 434 Second Innings. Hendry, not out .. .. 53 Sandford, not out 27 Extras 3 Total for no wickets .. .. 81 (P.A.). M.C.C. V. PATIALA. (Received This Day, 0.55 a.m.). DELHI, February 28. The final match between Marylebone and Patiala resulted in a draw. Patiala made 303 for four wickets (Wazin. Ali, 149; Tarrant, 68). Marylebone made 252 for nine wickets (Wyatt, 67; Tate, 65). At one stage Marylebone had three wickets down for 33.—(A. and N.Z.).