CORRUGATED WICKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1938, Page 7

CORRUGATED WICKET

HELPS THE BOWLERS COLLAPSE OF ESSEX TEAM. AUSTRALIANS WIN BY 97 RUNS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. The weather was bright and .cold for the continuation of the match between Essex and Australia. Both the impromptu openers, Walker and Ward, received nasty knocks on their fingers, due to the wicket being corrugated and thus ‘helping the bowlers. Nevertheless-the pair did well in trying conditions to see'out the first half hour against fast bowling. Ward fell a victim to a leg-break, and Walker’s wicket was shattered in consecutive overs. , NICHOLS CLAPS ON SPEED. Then Brown and Fingleton were partners against good bowling. Nichols, clapping on the speed, got Fingleton well caught on the off. Hassett, after several vain attempts to gdt Fames away, was out to a jugglfng catch at short square leg. BADCOCK BATS VIGOROUSLY. Badcock, playing vigorously, went out leg-before-wicket to a ball which kept very low. On a crumbling treacherous wicket McCabe batted with assurance, even audacity, but the others were most unhappy, and soon succumbed. McCabe, made 50 in fifty-five minutes. -The innings closed after 165 minutes’ play. Nichols, who at one stage had taken 5 wickets for 19, bowled with great zest throughout. Essex required 185 runs to win when they reopened at 3.10 p.m. Eastman was out first ball. ESSEX ALL AT SEA. Wilcox and Pearce raised the total io thirty when the spin bowlers, Ward and Fleetwood-Smith, were called on, thereafter, the Essex batsmen never looked like betting runs. Essex was even more at sea to the spin bowlers than the Australians were to the speed trundlers. The last six wickets fell for 30 runs in half an hour after the tea adjournment, and the team was dismissed in ninety-five minutes. PRAISE FOR McCABE. The Australian Associated Press representative says the wicket provided nearly every vice of which wickets are capable. In these circumstances McCabe’s innings, without which the match might have been lost, earned the highest praise. Australia’s second innings produced 153 runs, and as Essex could only reach 87 in the second innings, the Australians won by 97 runs. The scores are as follow: — AUSTRALIA. First Innings 145 Second Innings. Walker, b Nichols 18 Ward, b P. Smith 23 Brown, lbw, b P. Smith 15 Fingleton, c Wade, b Nichols 1 Badcock, lbw, b Nichols 23 Hassett, c Dennis, b Fames 4 McCabe, c Wilcox, b Nichols 50 • Chipperfield, b Nichols 3 Waite, c Wade, b Nichols 0 White, not out 7 Fleetwood-Smith, st. Wade, b Stephenson 0 Extras 9 Total 153 Bowling.—Fames, 1 for 24; Nichols, 6 for 25; Stephenson, 1 for 36; Smith, 2 for 59. ESSEX. First Innings H 4 Second Innings. Eastman, c Brown, b Waite 0 Wilcox, st. Walker, b Ward 20 Pearce, lbw, b Fleetwood-Smith 23 O’Connor, c White, b Ward 14 Nichols, b Ward , 1 Dennis, c Chipperfield, b Fleet-wood-Smith 6 Ashton, c McCabe, b FleetwoodSmith 17 Wade, b Ward 0 Smith, not out 1 Fames, c sub., b Fleetwood-Smith 0 Stephenson, lbw, b FleetwoodSmith ' 1 Extras 4 Total 87 Bowling.—Waite, 1 for 21; McCabe, 0 for 8; Ward, 4 for 26; FleetwoodSmith, 5 for 28. ENGLISH TEST TEAM. SINFIELD REPLACES CLAY. (Recd This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. J. C. Clay (Glamorgan) has withdrawn from the Test team, and Sinfield has been asked to fill the vacancy. TRAGEDY ON PLAYING FIELD. PLAYER’S SUDDEN DEATH. (Recd This Day, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Major C. B. Grace, son of the late Dr W. G. Grace, after scoring a boundary hit at Bexhill, collapsed and died.