f17855	Leicestershire v Australians
	Australia in British Isles 1948
Venue	Grace Road, Leicester on 1st, 3rd, 4th May 1948 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Australians won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Australians won by an innings and 171 runs
Umpires	A Skelding, CN Woolley
Close of play day 1	Australians (1) 407/8 (Miller 175*, Ring 0*)
Close of play day 2	Leicestershire (2) 113/5 (Jackson 19*, Chapman 16*)

---

Australians first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SG Barnes	lbw b Sperry	78
WA Brown	b Jackson	26
KR Miller	not out	202		325
*DG Bradman	c Corrall b Etherington	81
RN Harvey	lbw b Walsh	12
RA Hamence	st Corrall b Walsh	7
SJE Loxton	lbw b Jackson	4
IWG Johnson	c Lester b Jackson	6
+RA Saggers	c Lester b Jackson	6
DT Ring	run out	2
WA Johnston	st Corrall b Jackson	12
Extras	(10 b, 2 nb)	12
Total	(all out, 129.2 overs)	448
Fall of wickets:
1-46 (Brown), 2-157 (Barnes), 3-316 (Bradman), 4-344 (Harvey), 5-373 (Hamence), 6-393 (Loxton), 7-397 (Johnson), 8-407 (Saggers), 9-411 (Ring), 10-448 (Johnston, 129.2 ov)

Leicestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Sperry	27	5	84	1	-	1
Etherington	26	2	94	1	-	-
Cornock	3	0	13	0	-	-
Jackson	37.2	3	91	5	-	-
Walsh	29	0	125	2	-	-
Lester	7	0	29	0	-	1

---

Leicestershire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*GL Berry	b Loxton	1
G Lester	c Saggers b Ring	19
FT Prentice	c Barnes b Johnson	22
M Tompkin	lbw b Ring	15
VE Jackson	c Brown b Johnson	17
WB Cornock	run out	10
TA Chapman	c Loxton b Ring	4
JE Walsh	c Loxton b Ring	33
MW Etherington	not out	0
+P Corrall	run out	0
J Sperry	c Barnes b Ring	0
Extras	(4 b, 5 lb)	9
Total	(all out, 57.5 overs)	130
Fall of wickets:
1-1 (Berry), 2-34 (Lester), 3-56 (Tompkin), 4-74 (Prentice), 5-79 (Jackson), 6-90 (Chapman), 7-130 (Walsh), 8-130 (Cornock), 9-130 (Corrall), 10-130 (Sperry, 57.5 ov)

Australians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Johnston	6	0	15	0	-	-
Loxton	6	1	11	1	-	-
Johnson	23	9	50	2	-	-
Ring	22.5	9	45	5	-	-

---

Leicestershire second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*GL Berry	c Miller b Johnson	20
G Lester	c Ring b Johnson	40
FT Prentice	c and b Johnson	3
M Tompkin	c Johnston b Johnson	5
VE Jackson	not out	31
WB Cornock	b Johnson	6
TA Chapman	c Saggers b Johnson	16
JE Walsh	lbw b Johnston	1
MW Etherington	b Johnson	0
+P Corrall	c Bradman b Miller	8
J Sperry	b Miller	13
Extras	(2 b, 1 lb, 1 w)	4
Total	(all out, 74.1 overs)	147
Fall of wickets:
1-45 (Berry), 2-66 (Lester), 3-77 (Prentice), 4-77 (Tompkin), 5-83 (Cornock), 6-113 (Chapman), 7-116 (Walsh), 8-117 (Etherington), 9-131 (Corrall), 10-147 (Sperry, 74.1 ov)

Australians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Johnston	27	10	42	1	-	-
Loxton	7	3	12	0	-	-
Ring	11	2	26	0	1	-
Barnes	4	0	11	0	-	-
Johnson	21	8	42	7	-	-
Miller	4.1	1	10	2	-	-

---

Notes
--> WB Cornock made his debut in first-class matches
--> TA Chapman (2) passed 500 runs in first-class matches when he reached 7
--> MW Etherington made his debut for Leicestershire in first-class matches
--> RA Hamence made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> WA Johnston made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> RN Harvey made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> SJE Loxton made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> DT Ring made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> RA Saggers made his debut in England in first-class matches
--> IWG Johnson reached 150 wickets in first-class matches when he dismissed VE Jackson, his 2nd wicket in the Leicestershire first innings
--> IWG Johnson achieved his best innings bowling analysis in first-class matches when he dismissed MW Etherington in the Leicestershire second innings (previous best was 6-27)

---

 

 

 

 

This page was created by the CricketArchive Oracles