THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1988.
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Hutton Brimful Of Stamina
C.B. FRY SAYS--
(Continued from Page 18)
Maurice Leyland, of course, has at
last run himself out.
Hutton hit a
hard off-drive to Hassett at wide mid
TEST MATCHES AVERAGES
off; an easy first run; then Maurice Hutton risked a gambling second.
ENGLAND
BATTING
Times Highest
Inns, not out Runs Inns. Avge.
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Somehow Paynter from somewhere, the Don got to the Hardstaff wicket and whipped off the balls from W. R. Ham- a swift return.
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mond
Ames Barnett
Irish warhorse another spin instead of has pulled a muscle a general term McCabe. Total 461.
of modern surgery which means what you like.
his
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Hutton has unleashed another of
superb off-drives; he played it With a few minutes to go Fleetwood Our nearly suare; to quite a wide ball, got through Walter's guard. and judged the timing to the thous-captain tried to force to leg a straight. sandth of a second, His bat sounded top-spiñiner; it beat his bat and hit arh, round note. The ball simply his knee.. Well, a fine innings of fled along the turf.
59; unhurried and commanding.
The Don is doing some consulation 0 473 364 118.25 and some alteration of his scheme of 407 216* 101.75 the field. Walter is undisturbed, and
92.00 Hutton flows on.
6
2
3
1
* 184 160*
6
0-
403 240
0
0
(D.)
6
6
5
G
* * Now if you can explain to me why Maurice risked that silly run just Compton when we wanted only a safe passage for the quarter of an hour to the in- terval, and a complete control of the day if you can tell me this, I will be obliged.
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But we have to thank Maurice for a great innings of 187, and for not running himself out sooner.
Verity Wright
Edrich K.
12201
There is an arrangement of leg 67.16 side policemen when O'Rielly bowls to 45.00 Walter, but the ruse is given away 48.00 by a no-ball, hit for four. No arrest.
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Walter is warming up. Give him another half-hour, and we shall see some whipping.
Finessing His Field
The Don is again finessing his field; Waite is bowling wide
135 83 215 126
42.80 214 102
52 25* 13.00! .. 39 22 13,00 67 28 11.16 14 Farnes 3
7 7.00 Also batted-Bowes, 8 and 0; Ley- land, 187; Price, 0 and 6; Sinfield. 6: Wellard, 4 and 38: Wood, 53.
BOWLING
O. M. R. W. Avge. Hutton... 75.4 12 188 10 18.80
More consultation with the O'Reilly; 154.1 53 354 14 25.28 one policeman is withdrawn from .179.4 32 581. 17 34.17 half-distance fine leg, and a three- 35.6 6 139 4 34.75 quarter distance mid-on is set deep and 120 20 426 12 35.50 wide. Well, O'Reilly ·will
My word, the Don did get to that Bowes wicket sharply. He was quite deep at Verity mid-off. The bowler, O'Reilly,
was K. Farnes yards away. I never saw a more Edrich wide-awake piece of legerdepied and legerdemain.
Forcible Hammond
This,
O'Reilly, having caused Maurice to be run out, retires in favour of Fleet- wood.
doubt, no
to worry Walter Hammond, who has made his stately entry to loud applause. But challenge Walter has accepted the with graceful and forcible alacrity.
O'Reilly has changed over to the Vauxhall end to do a push in the last five minutes. Young Hutton greets" second his him by running into nineties.
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Now the O'Reilly starts the last over to Hutton. That lad will sit tight down.
So thinks the Don. He has trickled into silly point. And he has placed Fingleton close in on the leg side.
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The O'Reilly is dragging the ball back and trying all his tricks. But nothing happens, and young Hutton goes away with 191 runs to his name and sees a total of 434 on the board.
Walter Hammond has unobtrusively He seems in ex- waved up 20 runs. cellent form.
Wright
W. R. Ham-
mond
33 Also bowled:-
12
0. M.
:67 0
R. W.
6.00
Barnett
1 0 10
0
Leyland
8.1 0 30
1
Sinfield
Wellard
.63 16 123 2
.32 3 126 .3 HUNDREDS
The following eight three-figure in- nings were played for England:
Hutton (2), 365 at the Oval (fifth Test match); 100, at Nottingham (first Test match).
Barnett (1), 126, at Nottingham (first) Test match).
Compton (1), 102, at Nottingham (first Test match).
W. R. Hammond (1), 240, at Lord's (second Test match).
Hardstaff (1), 169*, at the Oval (fifth Test match).
Leyland (1), 187, at the Oval (fifth Test match).
Paynter (1), 216*, at (first Test match).
AUSTRALIA
BATTING
..
Nottingham
out.
Paynter, 01
The total now is 549 for three men Paynter fills the big gap. Our little hero does not fill the gap O'Reilly shouts for 1.b.w. for long. and gets the verdict. Well, the ball hit Paynter's leg pretty high, Fanny Walden's eye was nearly the same level, so I say nothing.
but
on
runs.
So Australia have scored one run out and three leg befores in about ten hours. We have scored 547 As yet we have the paper.
advantage on
of tho Our Denis Compton comes in, and off stump, and every time the covers has at once a gay and inappropriate The ball goes and mid-off walk quickly towards dip on the off-side.
clear. The hit was true; but, boy, keep that right shoulder level; do not drop it as you drive,
makes
bowl any sort of ball the Don may desire.
Fingleton is throwing a long examp: He has been away 40 minutes. Every now and then Waite the ball pop; I fancy one William Bowes could use the slight lift con- sequent on the damp surface.
Our total is 480... We shall make 500; and I hope for another Don't let us half do it.
600.
To think that Maurice is not still at the crease. What a mistake.
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And so to tea.
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Frankly, I am disappointed. genuinely believed we would score thousand runs. Now I doubt our exceeding even seven hundred.
Is not this Hutton just brimful of stamina? Here he is again, as fresh' And what a plece of as April. willow he is using!
Now Dennis Compton is clean bowled by Waite. He was walking about withal, trying to drive or else he lost. sight of the ball against the dusky It looked a careless stroke, pavilion. but one never knows.
That makes 555 for five; and our 700 is none too safe.
Adorns Field
Hutton has chivvied a short run. Walter had' to sprint level time. Joe Hardstaff now adorns the field Walter is now talking to the lad with and assumes his attitude of statuesque a shake of the head. And anyhow, mobility. An accomplished batsman; Walter's wicket is worth more than a he is nice to watch when properly in dubious single.
play; but I like to see him safely off the mark. He sometimes beats the pistol and the bowler hits the target.
The situation is mollified with soft drinks. The butler in full uniform, with a silver tray.
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Fleetwood, none too pleased, to judge by his sad eye, has now to bowl from Vauxhall. He indicates a lame leg, but discovers a good en-
One of his best. ough over.
The total is 490, and Hutton sweeps an old-time leg hit for four.
Then Walter drives Fleetwood through mid-off for a single, and Hut tan delivers first an obsolete draw duplicates 78.14] (silence, Sirs) and then 45.25 Walter's stroke.
Times Highest We resume. McCabe sent down an
Inns. not out Runs Inns. Avge. over with the old ball. Waite bowled D. G. Brad-
2 one ball with it; then he changed to
... 6
434 144* 108.50 the new in hope of swerve.
512 206* 362 232
The next now ball will be available
at 686 on the board.
Bowling Well
man
W. A.
Brown
8
1
S. J. M'Cabe 8.
.0
B. A. Bar-
nett
8 1 195 57
J
From the look of the sky, the Aus-A. L. Hasset 8 0 199 56 tralians will be lucky to escape rain. J. H. Fin- The weather is unsettled; the smoke gleton 6 is heavy from the tall chimneys down L. O'B. Lambeth way.
Waite, in manner No. 1, is bowling well with the new ball; he is faster than one would think; he makes the ball nip from the pitch.
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on
the -Hutton is now standing brink of his double century; he has already beaten Philip Mead's 182 made here in 1921 against Warwick Arm- strong's team.
I am hoping he will not get caught| at the wicket or in the slips off Waite while the ball is new.
of his late cut.
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0
123 40
Fleewood- Smith
5
3
30** 16*
w..J. O'-
Reilly
5
1
60 42
C. L. Bad-
cock
8
1
32
9
M. G. Waite 8" E. L. M'Cor-
0
11
8
2
2
27.85 24.87
And that makes our first 500 runs. Hutton Looks Tired
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By his way I see Charles Barnett has taken 168 to-day; so he cannot be here. out of form. He should be What have we gained by leaving him out?
The light is a double shade of grey. Not bad, but weak.
287
Hutton is nearing the record individual score set up by R. E. Foster For the matter of that in Australia. he may quite well beat Don Bradman's 334 made at Leeds in 1930,
Our Joe shows us in a trice that he has elegant power. He has flicked a beauty to the square leg boards and has stung extra cover with a real off drive.
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Is Hutton tiring a bit? I think so. We can do with a hoard of elegant 20.50 He should take a pull at the curb. Joe; but I would not wager we get He is at 236, on the edge of Walter it. All the same, he is shaping in Hammond's all-in-record England in-his best manner. 16.00 dividual score at Lord's.
The cap- Hutton visibly is tiring again. His tain himself is on the edge of the first right leg has had about enough of it. But he pulls himself bravely together 15.00 half of his century.
Another ball from Fleetwood, and every new over. And now he needs 4.57 Hutton is at 239; another and Walter but a couple to beat Tip Foster's re- And we need three runs for 3.66 gets a trimmer from Fleetwood, near- cord.
ly fatal. The ball beat the wicket- our 600.. keeper, too.
mick 3 0
0.66 Also batted-S. Barnes, 41 and 83; A. G. Chipperfield. 1: F. Ward, 2 and 7. BOWLING
Hutton
600 Up
and Then
plays to. Fleetwood Then, off O'Reilly, Hutton drives to steals a single with a push. mid-on, deepish; and scuttles a quick he repeats the stroke and is a statisti-
He cal hero.
Tip Foster's record har He then stood for 35 years, He is full fond W. J. O'Reilly .263 78 610 22 27.72
And our 600 is on the board. · 84.50
No; he works a wristy single and faces McCabe at 195, he cuts him for a single. Walter is shaping well the other end, he is not biting at the off ball; he means business.
faces Waito Hutton, now at 196, and essays an off-drive which goes in the air where the old-time third man used to stand.
Then he scores a couple to the on side; and finally cuts Waite for a single. Well done; and please go on.
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O. M. R. W.
Avge.
run.
has equalised the record.
He has now his 240 runs.
steals a single, off Fleetwood and has beaten Walter's record.
E. L. M'Cor-
mick
114 20 345 10
L. O'B. Fleet-
wood-Smith .217.5 34 727 14 51.92 19 293 2 146.50 S. J. M'Cabe · .108
1-190.00 M. G. Waite. 92 23 190
Also bowled :-
S. Barnes
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0. M. R. W. 88
84 1 3. 3 2 6
0 51
0
0
I do not like Joe at O'Reilly. The At his tender age this is a tremen-big man seems to fascinate him into dous performance.
short spasms and timid acrobatics. But Walter is still there with 50 to And if Joe would stand up tall, he his name and all the week in front of could plant O'Reilly over the ropes him.
I would not say that Hutton's No risk; there is no deep field. record is safe. Or Bradman's.
All the same. Joe has opened out at O'Reilly and knocked McCabe over I have been up to the score box to like a ninepin. McCabe was at silly see how Messrs. Ferguson and Strud forward leg, and turned his back te wick are bearing up. They are still the blow.
Fleetwood, there. Mr. Ferguson has used up 8. G. Barnes relieves. one long lead pencil and three-quar who has had a huge bowl and har tera of another. "Struddy" scores in howled well,
Hutton in his third nineties. We No; Joe has made some lovely
O'Reilly. strokes, but I do not like him at
Jack Hobbs is up there, too. at
field has been masterly, and that both all agree that the Don's placing of his Fleetwood and O'Reilly have bowled wonderfully well.
D. G. Bradman A. G. Chipperfield 9
52 A. L. Hassett ..18.0
.80 2 142- F. Ward
HUNDREDS The following six three-figure in nings were played for Australia:--
D. G. Bradman (8), 144 at Not-ink. At this juncture Fingleton catches apparent cramp in his left leg and re- tingham (first Test match): 108, tires for treatment. He has fielded Leeds (fourth Test match); 102: W. A. Brown (2), 200* at Lord's (86- brilliantly all the match-White re-at Lord's (second Test match). places him.
Walter takes the opportunity of cond Test match); 183, at Nottingham striking up 450 with a fine on-side (first Test match).
S. J. M'Cabe (1), 282, at Nottingham stroke. I am liking the look of Wal- ter; he will stay some time, unless he (first Test match).
* Signifies not out). gots himself out; he is, timing the ball; he has not yet let himself swing, but he soon will. A
I want to see him perform on 8. G. Barnes, if the new star rotates again. Set A Trap Stanley McCabe is still on, and he interpolating now and then a slow rémi -among- his usual medium
Also agreed that the have. stood their long thoroughbreds.
A
Australians gallop like
The truth is that Barnes is making the-ball turn. He is bowling leg
our Joe breaks this evening. Even does not like them; so now he does not like either end.
single Hutton, registers 295. off Barnes. Then he meets O'Rally. Hutton is shaping for his thousand But O'Reilly is on the job and bowls runs in August. He completes a quar: a maidon.
with as I shall expect to hear of O'Reilly tho The Don bas set a trap for Hutter of them in this match
second beautiful a lato cut as English cricket and Fleetwood signed on by old-fashioned deep
Arsenal; if they can bowl all day ton; an slip, rather wide. I doubt not he has fields have ever seen.
This, within ten minutes of the after like this, they are worth their places. told Waite to feed Hutton's late cut.
man reviewed the move noon stand-easy. He has been nine and in the reserves. Our young before accepting the next ball. He's a half hours at the crease. Yorkshire.
Concurrently, the Don gives the old
now reported.
Fingleton
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At the close of play. England's score was 684 for the loss of 5