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Test no. 210

New Zealand in England Test Series - 2nd Test
England v New Zealand

1931 season

Played at Kennington Oval, London, on 29,30,31 July 1931 (3-day match)

Result England won by an innings and 26 runs


England 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	H Sutcliffe	st James b Vivian	117	220		0
	AH Bakewell	run out	40			0
	KS Duleepsinhji	c Weir b Allcott	109	135	13	0
	WR Hammond	not out	100	104	13	0
	LEG Ames	c James b Vivian	41			0
	DR Jardine	not out	7			0
	Extras	(b 1, lb 1)	2

	Total	(4 wickets dec; 131.3 overs)	416	(3.16 runs per over)

Did not bat FR Brown, GOB Allen, MW Tate, IAR Peebles, H Verity

Fall of wickets1-84 (Bakewell), 2-262 (Duleepsinhji), 3-271 (Sutcliffe), 4-401 (Ames)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
IB Cromb	30	5	97	0	3.23
CFW Allcott	44	7	108	1	2.45
HG Vivian	34.3	8	96	2	2.78
GL Weir	10	1	36	0	3.60
WE Merritt	12	0	75	0	6.25
RC Blunt	1	0	2	0	2.00


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	JE Mills	b Allen	27			0
	GL Weir	b Allen	13			0
	RC Blunt	c Ames b Allen	2		0	0
	ML Page	c Peebles b Tate	12			0
	HG Vivian	c Ames b Allen	3		0	0
	TC Lowry	c Jardine b Brown	62	105		0
	JL Kerr	c Ames b Allen	34			0
	KC James	lbw b Brown	4			0
	IB Cromb	c Hammond b Verity	8			0
	WE Merritt	c Hammond b Verity	8			0
	CFW Allcott	not out	5			0
	Extras	(b 2, lb 9, nb 4)	15

	Total	(all out; 95.1 overs)	193	(2.02 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-42 (Mills), 2-44 (Blunt), 3-45 (Weir), 4-53 (Vivian), 5-92 (Page), 6-157 (Kerr), 7-167 (Lowry), 8-168 (James), 9-188 (Merritt), 10-193 (Cromb)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MW Tate	18	9	15	1	0.83
FR Brown	29	12	52	2	1.79
H Verity	22.1	8	52	2	2.34
IAR Peebles	12	3	35	0	2.91
GOB Allen	13	7	14	5	1.07
WR Hammond	1	0	10	0	10.00


New Zealand 2nd innings (following on)			R	M	4s	6s
	JE Mills	b Brown	30			0
	GL Weir	b Peebles	6			0
	ML Page	b Tate	3		0	0
	RC Blunt	b Peebles	43	140		0
	HG Vivian	c Brown b Peebles	51	95		1
	TC Lowry	c Duleepsinhji b Peebles	0		0	0
	JL Kerr	b Tate	28			0
	KC James	c Peebles b Verity	10			0
	IB Cromb	not out	3		0	0
	WE Merritt	lbw b Tate	4			0
	CFW Allcott	c Allen b Verity	1		0	0
	Extras	(b 6, lb 10, nb 2)	18

	Total	(all out; 84.3 overs)	197	(2.33 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-19 (Weir), 2-38 (Page), 3-51 (Mills), 4-139 (Vivian), 5-143 (Lowry), 6-162 (Blunt), 7-189 (Kerr), 8-189 (James), 9-196 (Merritt), 10-197 (Allcott)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MW Tate	21	6	22	3	1.04
FR Brown	16	6	38	1	2.37
H Verity	12.3	4	33	2	2.64
IAR Peebles	22	4	63	4	2.86
GOB Allen	13	4	23	0	1.76

Toss England, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 3-match series 1-0

Test debuts FR Brown and H Verity (England); HG Vivian (New Zealand)

Umpires F Chester and J Hardstaff snr

Close of play
29 Jul day 1 - England 1st innings 312/3 (WR Hammond 35*, LEG Ames 9*)
30 Jul day 2 - New Zealand 2nd innings 22/1 (JE Mills 10*, ML Page 0*)
31 Jul day 3 - New Zealand 2nd innings 197 (84.3 ov) - end of match

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