BIG CRICKET

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 3

BIG CRICKET

United Service.

EXGLAXD v. SOUTH AFKICA. RAIN DR1VES CROWD AWAY.

LONDON, Aug. 17. Oue of the largest cricket croxvds of the season assembled at tlie Oval, but 25,000 saxv only half an hour's play. South Africa xvon the toss and put England in. There xvas not mex-e-Iv a late start-, but txvo heavy doxvnp'ours, xvhich, besides drenching the thousands, interrupted the game, the second shower leaving such xvidespread pcols that stumps xvere draxvn early. There was much comment at Deane putting in England on a dead xvicket, but there xvas no doubt he did so less because he hoped to get Engalnd out cheaply than because he feared his oxx'u batsmen xvould_ be got out still more cheaply. Africa' s spin boxx-lers made good use of the xvicket, but the ball eame so slowlv that the batsmen had amnle time to see the ball. Tlie first hour's runs came mostly

from leg pulls and some square cuts. Hobbs xx~as unusuallv restrained and put tlie ball straight into Quinn's iiands at short leg. Hammond, unlike the others, began to drive irnnxediately. He xvalked out to drive a ball xvhich kept loxv, xvhen he \xras brilliantly stumped. Woolley had a great reception, nxarking tlie veteran's achievements in the earlier tests. He was unconcerned as alxvays. He started by straight liitting Vincent for six. but his plav was mostly of the quietest. contenting lymself witlx easy ones and twos, with an occasiona] bang to the leg side. Unfortxinately, be stepped back and dislodged his bails. Sutcliffe xvas sound. eareful and chanceless. ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, c Quinn, b McMillan ... 10 Sutcliffe, not out 84 Hammond, st Cameron, b Vincent 17 Woolley, hit wicket. b Vincent ... 46 Wyatt. c Deane. b Vincent 6 Lcylnnd, not out 0. Exti*as 3 T'otal for four wickets ... 166