THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1988
C. B. Fry's Test Commentary
(Continued from Page '18)
Ho is inclined to send his harder hits too straight at the fieldsmen: Other- wise no one could say a word against his methods. And that is only a little word.
He has played as an England opening batsman should; steady but ready to take his strokes; unhurried but wide awake. He cutą finely and fine; hel off-drives in style; and he is clever in placing his strokes on the leg side. We are all liking him, and the sight of his slim, shrewd skill.
Hutton takes his 50 with a love- square cut off Ward. Total 137.
Barnett 74.
LIKE OLD TIMES
batsmen who treat each ba on ita merits. You cannot frighten Barnett and Hutton with a.name:
gränd on drive it was with which Barnett sent up 200 runs. Fancy, brothers, England has 200 runs for no wickets, And people wrote me funny postcards when. I kept saying that wo still have cricketers in England... Do you re- call my postscript? But I was right.
A spot of rain. The beetle-backed (pent-houses crawl out. But, except as a promise of week-end 'rain, it is a false alarm. In eight minutes the beetles crawl back to the lee of the scoreboard and we resume.
THE NEW BALL
To the new ball we resume; At 1.15 we register our 150 runs. McCormick bowling for Ward. Something like a partnership this. Like right; our two heroes will see old times, says my next-door neigh-bright red sphere the better, You bour, John Hobbs.
not shake our confidence in Barnett' Barnett is in the nineties. He is and Hutton. flashing a heavy bat at McCormick's' Why, O'Reilly, even O'Reilly, has fast bouncers, and swinging a heavier retired to private life at second slip as bat at Ward's slow temptations. snapper to McCabe.
Will he score his century before We have worked once lunch? He is 98, and O'Reilly begins through the Don's artillery; and
now right the last over to Hutton.
casualties.
Hutton drives a no-ball to the on boundary. Then Hutton sits down for safety.
No; but a grand, brave, powerful : 98 not out is the reward of England
for sticking to a tried man.
For right-mindett enterprise we order to compass a winning total. Not shall remember it, and for the delight much margi ful sound, of willow hitting hard leather when Charles Barnett sling his great drivos;
The score is 219 when Edrich faces McCormick. We wish him, luck, ind. we know he is a first-rater. Let him settle down, and He will trouble the bowling.
Meanwhile young Hutton is pushing towards his century..
Not all, we were.entitled to expect while Barnett and Hutton were simpli
tying the algebra ef O'Reilly and Flect-- wood with so much gusto:
However; dur magnifico Walter is doing his unruffled best, and giving us no immediate qualmis: This is a get- tleman dnafräið and a consummate artist.
CATASTROPHE
A PITY
Whisper it not over there, in that *Hutton takes a three and faces white annexe where Sif Pelham and Fleetwood. Then, good luck to him, Mr. Perrin are sitting above the secre- he hooks a short ball clear of mid-on.tarial, offices, but I wish the self-coh- Then, bad luck for us, he tries to sweep tained rotundity of Maurice Leyland Fleetwood.
were at our service to-day: So do they.
Yes, I do; because his old enemy O'Reilly his bowled Walter Hammond. How small, a score is 26, however Well made, against the puissant name. A triumph, for the O'Reilly, A catas trophe for us; and exactly what we did not want.
He missed the ball and was out 1.b.w. and So now our. captain wenda his.state- Ally way to the wicket, only to see Edrich the play on. The lucky bowler was can- O'Reilly. A pity. Edrich shaped well The light is at times too good. We let go our grip just when we ought to have tightened up unmercifully
Now Walter Hammond and Paynter need to play themselves into stability. Their jolly task might have been to no trounce a pack of tired bowlers: Never mind; we may yet put up a winning Young Hutton has scored 80, and has total. given nobody any reason to suppose he
Noticeable now that O'Reilly and has in mind to retire just yet. He is Fleetwood, who had become rather growing more and more searching with draggled under punishment by Barnett, his clever bat. He is now placing his have plumed up again: strokes between the fieldsmen. As for Both are bowling with hopeful insis- Charles Barnett, he continues his judi-tence.
Now we have Compton and Paynter, but they are not on top of the bowling. No appearatice of command such gladdened our eyes in the forenooi.
$1.
Still, we are on the threshold of 306 for four men out. Not too bad. The more so because Paynter is waking into a gayer mood.
All this time the O'Reilly and Fleet- wood are multiplying over after over. One on, one off.
Hutton is happy with 61 not out. All England is delighted with 169 cious punching. If ever two men were For some 20 minutes the game driftster emerges: but he hits too straight runs for no wickets. A great morn-well set, these art. ing for us.
They have burst the bubble of the First ball after the interval Ward Australian bowling. Who will bowled to Charles Barnett. Crack and again suggest that our men cannot deal past cover-point the ball scorched the with O'Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith? turf to the boundary. So Barnett Even if nothing else in this match is scores another century for England pleasant to English eyes, we have seen against Australia. A memorable inn- the dissipation of a myth. The burial, ings. He went for the bowling right of a bogy. away from the first ball of the match. He hit so hard that the two chances he gave were very outside chances for the fieldsman.
The power of his stroke to the off boundary was truly terrific. And he is still there, undefeated.
WE SHALL REMEMBER
Up goes 300. A still livelier Payni- into a sedate backwater of precise to the fieldsmen, bowling and studious batting.
WOULD LIKE ÍMPUDENCË Walter is ready with his graceful ever
force, but Paynter seems to be over-move. Is he over-cautious and a shade Compton is not yet properly on the studious of ways and means. All too well-meaning? I would like more right; but tentative.
impudence. A BUMPER OR TWO
At last Fleetwood is allowed a rest;: Now another projection of McCor-Ward comes on. But the O'Reilly is mick. The Don is sidling up from an interminable tryer. mid-off, and offering a word into ear. Ward has proved expensive, but he I fancy the suggestion is a bumper or has never been loose. two for Walter before Walter is well up one last over and retired.
O'Reilly rolled and truly set. But Walter-is exhibit- ing no discomfort and looks as likely ing to bowl, and cheered, but he was The crowd thought the Don was go- for runs as ever in his life.
only introducing McCabe. He stands and moves with lovely ease; he almost caresses the ball with this rubber is over the Australian bow- I will tip you something. Before a touch which would be delicate were ling will be discovered to be thin. it not so forceful. Let him get 40 or Well, Compton is happier now so, and we shall see a lot of him. O'Reilly is gone and Paynter is begin- this position. We have 274 runs for Comments on the second day's play The afternoon interval finds us inning to encourage us. (Copyright)- three men out. We have the pair at will appear in to-morrow's editions of the wickets, and two men to come in in the "China Mail".
Fast bowler McCormick began with three slips and all his fielders close up. Now he has two slips, a man on the boundary square. and all his in-fields deeper..
I would not say that Barnett is not getting tired. He has been attacking all the day and has had more of the bowling than Hutton.
NOTHING IN A NAME We are now settling down to a long stretch of O'Reilly. Our dragonman is bowling as well as ever. Artful varia- He has onded his splendid innings. tions of pace.
Now a bit of leg-break; He seemed to play back rather un- now a bit of off-break, and never aalertly at McCormick, and was bowled. loose ball. But he is up against twe] We shall all remember this 126.
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