FORCEFUL BATTING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 7

FORCEFUL BATTING

ENGLAND NINE FOR 358. CRICKET TEST WITH DOMINION. GALLICHAN IN FORM. (From the Special Correspondent of the United Press Association with the Team.) (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MANCHESTER, July 24. England won the toss in the second cricket Test at Manchester against New Zealand, and at stumps had scored 358 runs for the loss of nine wickets. The teams are : England.—R. W. V. Robins (Middlesex), captain; F. It. Brown (fcurrey), W. It. Hammond (Gloucestershire), C. J. Barnett (Gloucestershire), L. E. G. Ames (Kent), E. Paynter (Lancashire), J . Hardstatf (Nottinghamshire), L. Hutton (Yorkshire), J. bmith (Middlesex), T. W. Goddard (Gloucestershire), A. IV. Wellard (Somerset). Now Zealand.—H. G. Vivian, D. A. R Moloney, M. W. Wallace, M. P. Donnelly, J. L. Kerr, W. A. Hadlee, IV. L. Page (captain), E. W. Tindill, N. Gallichan, J. A. Dunning, and JCowie.

New Zealand’s performance was very commendable in the difficult circumstances, the weather playing right into the hands of* England. Rain, beside delaying the start for nearly half an hour, twice interrupted play and made the wicket easy. England, evidently profiting front the lesson in the first game, took advantage of the conditions and sought to score quickly, but were restrained by the admirable accuracy of Vivian and the persistent steadiness of Gallichan and Dunning, as well as being upset by the after-tea deadliness of Cowie. England demonstrated their confidence in their ability to make a big score, sacrificing batting power to include a full battery of bowlers and omitting Parks. New Zealand included Gallichan because of the state of the pitch and omitted Roberts, whose shoulder is still doubtful. Carson is twelfth man. New Zealand suffered an early blow when Page maintained his unhappy record for losing the toss on a Saturday. _ England began brightly, chiefly through the enterprise of Barnett, whose clever cover-driving was beautiful, especially against Dunning. Cowie was once more treated respectfully, and the first dozen overs cost only 20 runs. Barnett and Hutton laid a solid foundation for the innings, scoring 100 together by good stroke play combined with smart running between the wickets. Gallichan was very accurate before lunch, conceding only 13 runs in a three-quarter-hour spell.

BARNETT WELL CAUGHT. Barnett was well caught at mid-on soon after resumption. It was the fiftieth wicket in first-class cricket of the Cowie. Hutton and Hardstaff steadily added 128 lor the second wicket. Hardstafi was uncertain at the start and almost played on Gallichan and was nearl.v caught at long-on by Donnelly off Vivian. Vivian bowled with steady length and clever flight, getting some turn on the ball after lunch and was never really mastered by Hutton, whose carefully compiled and. excellent century occupied three hours and a half. He was caught at mid-off. Hardstaff’s half-cen-tury took two hours. He was deceived by a quickly dropping ball which he went out to drive and was easily stumped by Tindill. Vivian’s figures at the tea interval were 28 overs, seven maidens, for 75 runs and two wickets. England's excellent position permitted forceful tactics after tea. The scoring by Hammond and Paynter, nevertheless, was not exceptionally fast. Paynter was fortunate in snicking the unlucky Gallichan to the slips dangerously close to Cowie. Gallichan again pegged the batsmen down, quietening even Hammond. Ho bowled the champion two maiden overs and then scattered his stumps, completely bluffing the batsman, who jumped out for a drive. Paynter was beaten by an extra fast one from Cowie, who also quickly disposed of Wellard and then sent Robins’s off stump cartwheeling. The fast bowler showed surprising vim considering the amount of work lie had already performed, oven admitting that the pitch was more suited to him after tea than at any other time during the day. He took three wickets for thirteen runs in six overs. It was a fine spell of determined effort. A SMITER TEMPTED. Gallichan clean bowled Brown and tempted into qne too many big hits the mighty smiter Smith. The game underwent an amazing transformation from three for 237 at tea to nine for 358 at stumps. As England had over 200 up and tVily one wicket down, the stumps score was highly satisfactory for New Zealand. The carefully-placed field , was of great assistance to the bowlers. The ground fielding was practically without fault. The uncertain weather affected the attendance. Only 2800 paid for admission, compared with an estimated crowd of 5000. Scores: — ENGLAND. First Innings. Hutton, c Dunning, b Vivian ... 100 Barnett, c Kerr, b Cowie 62 Hardstaff, c Tindill, b Vivian ... 58 Hammond, b Gallichan 33 Paynter, lbw, b Cowie 33 Ames, not out 16 Wellard, b Cowie 5 Robins. b Cowie '• 14 Brown, b Gallichan 1 Smith, c Kerr, b Gallichan 21 Goddard, not out f Extras -* 1 Total for nine wickets ... 358 bowling analysis.

DECLARATION EXPECTED. MANCHESTER, July 25. . The Sunday papers say the match is now at a most interesting state with the possibility' of New Zealand securing a first-innings lead if the wicket favours the batsmen. . High tributes are paid to Cowie and praise is given to Gallichan and Vivian. It is probable tliat Robins will declare first tiling to-morrow and endeavourt to force a win. The New- Zealand batting older will be: Vivian, Moloney, Wallace, Donnelly, Kerr, Hadlee, Page, Tindill, Gallichan, Dunning, Cowie.

“BOWLERS FLATTERED.”

LONDON, July 25. The special cricket correspondent of the Australian Associated Press says tliat Hutton, by batting. for 3CO minutes redeemed his previous Test failures, but critics declare that the batsmen generally flattered the bowling.

The later batting failures resulted in six -wickets falling for 100 runs.

0. M. W. Cowie Dunning Vivian Page ... Galliehan 32 28 28 5 ... 36 6 6 7 0 7 '73 84 75 16 99 4 0 2 0 3 Byes four, leg-byes seven.