England Beaten in Final Test Match by an Innings and 39
Runs: Hornibrook's Splendid Bowling 85 min. to compile his 60 runs, whicl included one 6 and eight 4's. This was his best innings of the series. He combined defence with aggression, and was powerful in his drives and' pulling to leg.
London, Aug. 18.
The scores at the luncheon interval in the Fifth Test match be. tween England and Australia st innings—36 for 0. batted for the rest of, the day for 215 for two, Aug. 19.
When Bradman and Kippax had added 32 runs Peebles went on in place of Tate, He made Bradman} feel very uncomfortable, the latter failing to score off his first over. Then with a drive to the boundary followed by a single, off Peebles, Bradman reached his half-century, stter batting an hour and 35 minutes.
'A few minutes afterwards the partnership was broken, Alani Kippax being taken by Wyatt, the English captain, at short-leg, off Peebles.
'Archie Jackson then joined Brad man, When the latter had_ scored 82 he gave Duckworth, behind the wickets, a difficult chance, which was not accepted. Playing' careful but faultless cricket, Bradman then reached his century after batting for three hours.
Then a heavy rain storm swept! the ground and play was not resumed. until 3 o'clock.
Larwood and Tate found it diicult to obtain a foothold in spite of the use of sawdust, The wet wicket, however, helped Peebles. Once Bradman played a ball from the Scotsman too soon and almost gave a return catch, At the close the Australian total was just two runs short of the English score, with seven wicket hand, Bradman having 130 to his credit and Jackson 43, the seoreboard reading aacven 408 for 3.
Unfavourable weather conditions however, did not worry Bradman. He continued to score runs with mechanical precision and was quite unperturbed by the frequent change of bowlers. Record after record was shattered.
The first to go was that of the highest individual aggregate of 905 runs in a series of test matches established by Hammond in 1928- 29. During his tour in Austral that, season Hammond made 905 runs with an average of 113.12, the previous best having been 734 by Sutcliffe during the 1924-25 tour.
Before Bradman's advent Hammond also had the distinction of being the only player who had made 200 or more upon two occasions in Test series.
All these records went by the board and Bradman still continued to dat like a wonderfully efficient machine, With Jackson he broke the fourth wicket record of 21 established by S. E. Gregory and G. H. 8, Trott at Lord's in 1896, The fourth wicket record of English batsmen in a test match was the 151 by C. B. Fry and F. S. Jackson at the Oval in 1905.
The partnership came to an end when Jackson skied a ball from Wyatt to Sutcliffe at extra-cover. Bradman had then made 203
(500/4).
Eventually, Larwood, who was) sending down some extremely fast balls with the assistance of the wind, induced Bradman to edge one into the hands of Duckworth, who) made no mistake (570 for five).
The New South Wales cecordbreaker had given a masterly display of batting, although he was subdued at times by Peebles. He was delightful in his hitting to all parts of the field, and his score of 232 included sixteen boundaries.
The innings closed for 695.
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