TEN WICKETS DEFEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1938, Page 5

TEN WICKETS DEFEAT

ENGLISH XI VICTORIOUS COLLAPSE OF AUSTRALIA GOOD BOWLING BY BOWES By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. The cricket match between Australia and Mr H. D G. Levesqn-Gowers XL was continued at Scarborough today, and the tourists’ second innings total stood at 70 for six wickets at the lunch interval.

O’Reilly and Ward reopened Australia’s second innings with no score on the board. O’Reilly was out in the first over. Ward and Brown then continued defensively. Ward had a valuable stay of 55 minutes before being bowled by Nichols.

Brown was an hour getting nine runs, playing maiden after maiden. Fingleton was out to a splendid legside catch and Badcock was clean blowled in the next over. Then Barnes went with the score at 55 sgid the deficit not yet wiped off. Bowes, bowling at a medium pace, had all the batsmen in trouble, and when he dismissed McCabe he had taken 3 wickets for 8 runs. Six wickets were down for 55 runs in less than 1| hours today. Brown continued to defend with sureness and determination. Bowes continued to be hostile. After lunch he was largely responsible for Australia’s worst collapse of the tour and the lowest innings of the tour ended after 175 minutes’ play. Sutcliffe, briskly, and Hutton, quietly, set about the comfortable task of getting 46 runs to win. Half an hour’s batting was sufficient to complete the crushing defeat of the Australians by 10 wickets. The scores were as follow: —

AUSTRALIA. First Innings 306 Second Innings. O’Reilly, c Bowes, b Fames 0 Ward, b Nichols 20 Brown, not out 38 Fingleton, c Gibb, b Bowes 20 Badcock, b Bowes ~ 0 McCabe, b Bowes 1 Barnes, b Verity 1 Barnett, l.b.w. Bowes 12 Waite, b Bowes ~ 0 Fleetwood-Smith, st Gibb, b Verity 5 McCormick, absent, hurt 0 Extras > 5 Total 102 Grand Total 408 Bowling—Fames, 1 for 10; Nichols, 1 for 28; Bowes, 5 for 42; Verity 2 for 17, LEVESON-GOWER’S XI. First Innings 363 Second Innings Sutcliffe, not out 36 Hutton, not out 9 Extra 1 Total: 0 wickets for 46 Grand Total 409 Bowling—Waite, 0 for 18; O’Reilly, 0 for 24; Ward, 0 for 3.