ENGLISH ELEVEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 7

ENGLISH ELEVEN

MATCH OPENS AGAINST AUSTRALIANS O’REILLY IN GOOD FORM. EDRICH PLAYS DASHINGLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.37 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. The Australians began a match against an English Eleven today. Fleet-wood-Smith, who has lumbago, remained in London. Australia are thus without a twelfth man. Finding a well grassed wicket McCabe, who won the toss, chose to send in England’s cosmopolitan eleven. After the opening batsmen D. Smith and Edrich, had put on a brisk 52, O’Reilly, with a perfectly pitched leg break, took off Smith’s bails. Soon afterward he clean-bowled Edrich, who played dashingly. It was his best performance against Australia since early in the season. After that wickets fell rapidly. The presence of O’Reilly made all the difference to the Australian attack. He had all the batsmen unhappy. ■ While the wickets were falling Worthington played soundly. Waite and McCormick played with ease but O’Reilly and Ward were deadly, making the ball turn sharply. Hitting out when the last man, Duckworth, came in, Worthington was caught in the covers. The English innings lasted 145 minutes.

With the Australian score at 26, three wickets fell, Hassett being out first ball. Amar Singh, a medium-paced, bowler, swung the ball awkwardly and with the exception of Barnes, worried the Australians. His leg before victims were beaten by the pace from the pitch. Australia, with eight wickets down, was still eight runs short of the English total but White and Ward, hitting freely, extricated Australia from a serious position. They added fifty for the ninth wicket. Amar Singh bowled unchanged for twenty-five overs, in which he took 6 wickets for 84. Edrich, in the half-hour England batted before stumps drawn, failed to break his run of failures against Australia. Scores are: — ENGLAND ELEVEN. First Innings. D. Smith, b O’Reilly 26 Edrich, b O’Reilly 31 Worthington, c McCabe, b Ward .... 45 Townsend, lbw, b O’Reilly 0 Croom, st Barnett, b Ward 0 Warburton, st Barnett, b Wgrd .... 1 Howorth, c McCabe, b Ward 5 Amar Singh, c Waite, b Ward 7 G. Pope, b Ward 10 Eckersley, lbw, b O’Reilly 2 Duckworth, not out .'. 0 Extras 5 Total 132 Bowling analysis: McCormick 0 for 22; Waite 0 for 31; O’Reilly 4 for 30; Ward 6 for 44. Second Innings. Edrich, lbw, b O’Reilly 9 Smith, not out 4 Howorth, not out 8 Extras 12 Total, 1 wicket for 33 AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Badcock, b Pope 14 Brown, lbw, b Amar Singh 11 Hassett, c Worthington, b Amar Singh 0 Barnes, b Pope 23 Barnett, b Amar Singh 9 McCabe, lbw, b Amar Singh 11 Waite, lbw, Amar Singh 22 White, b Warburton 16 O’Reilly, b Amar Singh 17 Ward, b Warburton 31 McCormick, not out 1 Extras ; 19 Total 174 Bowling analysis: Pope 2 for 44; Warburton 2 for 10; Edrich 0 for 17; Amar Singh 6 for 84. MATCH AT FOLKESTONE. ENGLISH ELEVEN SELECTED. (Recd This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. The English Eleven to play against Australia at Folkestone on September 3 is as follows: Chalk, Valentine, Levett, Woolley, Ames, Todd, Paynter, Fagg, Compton, A. Pope, G. Pope arid Wilkinson. TEST AT DURBAN EXTENSION OF TIME APPROVED. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, August 31. At the Marylebone Club’s request the fifth cricket Test between England and South Africa to be played at Durban, will be played to a finish if the difference in time does not exceed one day.