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Test no. 186

England in New Zealand Test Series - 1st Test
New Zealand v England

1929/30 season

Played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, on 10,11,13 January 1930 (3-day match)

Result England won by 8 wickets


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	CS Dempster	b Allom	11				0
	H Foley	c Duleepsinhji b Nichols	2			0	0
	AW Roberts	c Duleepsinhji b Nichols	3			0	0
	ML Page	c & b Nichols	1			0	0
	RC Blunt	not out	45	105			0
	TC Lowry	lbw b Allom	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	KC James	c Cornford b Allom	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	FT Badcock	b Allom	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	GR Dickinson	b Nichols	11				0
	WE Merritt	b Allom	19				0
	M Henderson	b Worthington	6				0
	Extras	(b 7, lb 4, nb 3)	14

	Total	(all out; 47.1 overs)	112	(2.37 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-5 (Foley), 2-11 (Roberts), 3-15 (Page), 4-21 (Dempster), 5-21 (Lowry), 6-21 (James), 7-21 (Badcock), 8-64 (Dickinson), 9-103 (Merritt), 10-112 (Henderson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MS Nichols	17	5	28	4	1.64
MJC Allom	19	4	38	5	2.00
F Barratt	4	1	8	0	2.00
TS Worthington	7.1	1	24	1	3.34


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	EW Dawson	c Lowry b Henderson	7				0
	AHH Gilligan	c Henderson b Badcock	10				0
	KS Duleepsinhji	c Dickinson b Henderson	49				0
	FE Woolley	c Merritt b Dickinson	31				0
	GB Legge	b Blunt	36				0
	MS Nichols	c Dickinson b Page	21				0
	TS Worthington	b Blunt	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	MJL Turnbull	c Merritt b Badcock	7				0
	F Barratt	st James b Merritt	4				0
	WL Cornford	c Lowry b Blunt	6				0
	MJC Allom	not out	4				0
	Extras	(b 3, lb 1, nb 2)	6

	Total	(all out; 63.1 overs)	181	(2.86 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-20 (Gilligan), 2-20 (Dawson), 3-81 (Woolley), 4-113 (Duleepsinhji), 5-148 (Legge), 6-148 (Worthington), 7-163 (Turnbull), 8-168 (Barratt), 9-172 (Nichols), 10-181 (Cornford)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
FT Badcock	18	7	29	2	1.61
GR Dickinson	11	1	40	1	3.63
WE Merritt	13	1	48	1	3.69
M Henderson	8	1	38	2	4.75
RC Blunt	11.1	4	17	3	1.52
ML Page	2	1	3	1	1.50


New Zealand 2nd innings			R	M	4s	6s
	CS Dempster	c Duleepsinhji b Allom	25			0
	H Foley	c Nichols b Allom	2		0	0
	RC Blunt	c Legge b Woolley	7			0
	ML Page	st Cornford b Barratt	21			0
	TC Lowry	b Nichols	40	94		0
	AW Roberts	c & b Worthington	5			0
	KC James	lbw b Worthington	0		0	0
	GR Dickinson	c Barratt b Woolley	8			0
	FT Badcock	b Nichols	0		0	0
	WE Merritt	b Allom	2		0	0
	M Henderson	not out	2		0	0
	Extras	(b 9, lb 6, nb 4)	19

	Total	(all out; 60.3 overs)	131	(2.16 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-8 (Foley), 2-28 (Blunt), 3-65 (Dempster), 4-79 (Page), 5-86 (Roberts), 6-86 (James), 7-111 (Dickinson), 8-111 (Badcock), 9-125 (Merritt), 10-131 (Lowry)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MS Nichols	14.3	6	23	2	1.58
MJC Allom	15	6	17	3	1.13
F Barratt	9	2	16	1	1.77
TS Worthington	13	4	19	2	1.46
FE Woolley	9	2	37	2	4.11


England 2nd innings (target: 63 runs)			R	6s
	EW Dawson	lbw b Blunt	10	0
	AHH Gilligan	b Blunt	4	0
	KS Duleepsinhji	not out	33	0
	FE Woolley	not out	17	0
	Extras	(w 1, nb 1)	2

	Total	(2 wickets; 18.5 overs)	66	(3.50 runs per over)

Did not bat GB Legge, MS Nichols, TS Worthington, MJL Turnbull, F Barratt,

WL Cornford, MJC Allom

Fall of wickets1-14 (Gilligan), 2-17 (Dawson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GR Dickinson	2	0	4	0	2.00
WE Merritt	2	0	7	0	3.50
M Henderson	7	2	26	0	3.71
RC Blunt	7	1	17	2	2.42
CS Dempster	0.5	0	10	0	12.00

Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 4-match series 1-0

Test debuts MJC Allom, WL Cornford, AHH Gilligan, MS Nichols, MJL Turnbull and TS Worthington (England); FT Badcock, RC Blunt, CS Dempster, GR Dickinson, H Foley, M Henderson, KC James, TC Lowry, WE Merritt, ML Page and AW Roberts (New Zealand)

Umpires W Butler and KH Cave

Close of play
10 Jan day 1 - England 1st innings 147/4 (GB Legge 35*, MS Nichols 10*)
11 Jan day 2 - no play
12 Jan rest day
13 Jan day 3 - England 2nd innings 66/2 (18.5 ov) - end of match

Match notes

New Zealand's first test match.