THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1938
C. B. Fry's Test Commentary
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Paynter does not consider O'Reilly's feelings; He plants him right and left with agile venom. That off-drive when the little fellow lies back from the ball and makes a Catharine wheel singles down the pitch. Not once nor of his bat travels very sweetly. But twice, but repeatedly. he is a genuine leg hitter, and picks Finally the English captain calls up a third of his runs round the cor-him home undefeated, 216 not out. ner. Not snicks; proper hits.
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When he is at 186 Sinfield falls a victim to O'Reilly's top spinner, and is out b.w. He was shaping well enough. Wright plays out the over; he, too, can bat quite some.
Now Paynter
must pull his pads into place and remove his gloves. He has a game go at Xavier, but smart fielding interrupts all but a two and a single.
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At his 189 he meets O'Reilly. tiresome customer to force. And Paynter chanced his arm at a slower ball; he nearly plopped the ball in the lap of extra cover.
An on-drive off Xavier, a clipping on-drive, gives him 194. Then he adds a single. Wright faces Xavier with a carefully inclined bat.
DOUBLE GLORY
The total is 658 for eight wickets. Look at the figures. I cannot ver- bally improve on them.
Paviter has done a really big thing. Let his score be his own fitting monu-
England's
ment.
Paynter!
motto let loose the
FARNES AND HAMMOND We now see our long-legged Ken- neth Farnes, fresh from his long leisure, bowl the first over from the Town end. Here, in 1984 he had a fine success.
Walter Hammond, and glad am I to see it, takes the new ball and the second over from the Pavilion end.
Farnes uses two slips, one man in the gully, silly mid-on, short-leg, long
eg, deep third man, mid-off and cover- point for Brown and Fingleton.
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he bowls a long hop; he bowls a good' leg break; he bowls a shortish leg break, and Fingo Fingleton, trying the hook, cuts the ball down into his wicket. So a dangerous, batsman is gone with 84 runs on the board.
Here is the Don-a capless Don, and none too comfortable with these lively twisters served up by the Kentish con- juror. Not just at first anyhow. Or does hope deceive us?
chance, of course, but a chance. The welkin sighed.
And the Interval was called.
The next move at 4.20, and no wait- I have a hunch Wright will induce ing, is Farnes vice. Sinfield. No some accidents. He is causing dis- doubt, the iden- is to give the fast bow-comfort every over he bowls.
Records
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England set up their record ag- gregate in Tests against Australia, beating the 636 at Sydney in 1928.
Paynter and Compton set up a fifth wicket record for all Tests, breaking the 192 by Braund and R. E. Foster at Sydney in the 1903-4 series.
Four individual hundreds in one innings is a world record for any
Test.
After Brown and Fingleton had Now Paynter again stands to collected an untroubled dozen, I re-
England also beat the record Test, O'Reilly. Two defensive strokes and gretfully recalled that Sussex
score for the Nottingham ground- a third; then a push for a single, scored over 700 at Leicester and de-426 for five, declared, by England making 196 Wright takes on theclared; that in reply Leicestershire in 1905. Tiger, and sits rigidly on the splice. scored 800 odd for some six wickets; Paynter to Xavier, wanting one and this was the match. Leicester, is four for double glory. Two unfruit- not so far from Nottingham, either. ful strokes; then another; then an- other; then a push for a single.
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Compton and Hutton are the first two men playing in their first Test innings both to score 100 against Australia. Compton, at 20 years, is Wright gives out an extended for- tion, so here we must sit in patience century.
not making heavy weather of the situa-youngest ever to get an England ward thrust with studied caution.till something happens. Now Paynter has O'Reilly again. He makes a single in front of short leg. Wright sits down to defend; two short
legs squat on his lee, but he holds the
fort.
Paynter now plants Xavier for a single. What
& wrestle. But he marks un 199. Then Wright takes a little push for single.
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Now here it is. Paynter avades silly point with a cautious push, and is home on the double. Total 641.
This leads to ringing cheers; and to McCormick and to McCabe. Bin black clouds in the sky all round us; there is thunder about.
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Yes; thunder on the right, or is it on the left? In either case a good
And 650 if on the board. Immensely popular is the sequel. Paynter bags the bowling with cheeky
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Farnes is bowling fast visible bounce, and all the same is without bowling well. I like the look of him. Well keyed up and full of oxygen.
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Paynter made the highest score by any English batsman in one of Mead's 182 not out at the Oval in these Tests in England, beating
1921.
Walter is keeping both batsmen¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ quiet; maiden after maiden.
ler a chance at the Don before Don-
FARNES' FINE LENGTH
The same regimen on resumption. Farnes bowling fast and a 'fine length from the Pavilion énd. No strokes made from except guidances to leg.
Wright, of course, is still in use. He is keeping the ball well up to the bateman and is annoying Billy Brown.
The cricket is slow but exciting. From every ball one anticipates an. event: and the event by no means -a boundary.
So you can guess the attack is pretty close.
The Don as yet is not playing well. He is feeling forward too often and his bat lacks its customary grip of the ball
Our bowling has looked far better than the Australian bowling. But we are bowling with 600 runs behind our arms.
A few overs and then Sinfield, re- sumes with his usual maiden over.
I shall be surprised if Don Brad- man makes one of his really tall scores. He is fiddling about and is uncertain of his strokes. It may be he is not fit; it may be the light' is weak. There is something awry.
I judge him by his own standard, he is underneath it. That is my feel- ing.
covered with medals. His accuracy is Sinfield, as he delivers the ball, throws out his chest as if it were
quite old-fashioned.
Wright takes a rest and Verity takes over the good work.
CATCHES UP BROWN Brown is playing nicely now; he is keeping a light hand on his strokes, But I fancy the slow stuff for re-but his strokes are clean and go where
Nothing has occurred save some careful twos and threes to leg offset. Farnes. But our present captain, God bless him, believes in quick sults sooner or later. changes; so he gives his end to "Sin- field.
Our new bowler uses 4 short, meditative run, holds the ball with his finger tips, and urges his very accur- ate slows well into the air. He brings behind his back and lets the ball go his arm out with a quick swing from with a sort of caress, as though he were stroking a horse's neck.
ONE FOR 34
Wright takes the ball from Farnes;
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he aims them.
With Wright off, the Don is blos- soming into activity and assurance.
I had better hedge on what I said above.. He has caught up Brown.
They have scored 30 apiece and the total is 79.
I would not call the light too good just now; not too bad but rather bleary. I would not say that the bats- men get too good a sight of the ball against the mass of coats and faces in the Pavilion.
The light is growing into a subject.
and bowled by Wright. The
Incident. The Don all but caught of conversation. The Don speaks-to Brown; Brown speaks to Chester; reached forward and cocked the ball Chester speaks to Robinson. Both up. The bowler dived a right hand umpires regard the sky. On mature and the ball so nearly stuck. Difficult consideration they decide the light is not-bad-enough-to-cause-a-cessation of
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Properly Farnes has now replaced Verity. Verity had been steady and true to his name, but he could not squeeze any life out of the turf.
The Don was beginning to execute his straddling off-drive; and Verity was smiling without mirth like a pedagogue who has failed to trap a puvil into a false quantity.
Very properly Wright is now being tried with the dark pavilion behind his arm.
And the hundred is registered. The Don is warming up. He has had some escapes and some, shaves, but I fear he is now taking root.
Wright is giving Brown a deal to think about. The play, as you may guess; is not at all festive, off Farnes, That gives him three lives. unless.
I think the Don has been missed. In the gully our wishes have fed our eyes. too full.
DID HIS JOB
We are in a period of trench war- fare with orcasiónal #allies by the Dön. And the Don sallied into single and "ompleted his 50.
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Strange, but one does not notice how busily this customer collects his runs. One here, one there, and an occasional boundary, and he is at 50 before you realise his progress,
I anticipate another appeal soon. Sinfeld has done his job. The Don -layed forward at a fighted ball, The bowler, pulled him forward. He touched the ball. Ames received in his nost. Un went the accusing finger of umpire Chester.
I ought not to have, hedged. The Don's 51 was not one of his re- Presentative innings. He made some
half a dozen proper strokes. lucky to escape twice from
**changes that" the catcher : would: Fucky to hold close of play score was;
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