Leeds Test Opens

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1260

Date Released

27 Jul 1953

Date submitted

23 Jul 1953

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Leeds Test Opens
2. 2Royal River Pageant

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Leeds Test - England’s Poor Start. DESCRIPTION: At Headingley, England were put in to bat by Hassett who won the toss for Australia. The England batsmen could not settle down to the strong Australian attack and were all out for 167. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Crowd shots. Hassett wins toss. Rain - wicket covered before start of match. Australians take field. Hutton & Edrich out. Lindwall to Hutton. Lindwall’s second ball clean bowls Hutton. Aussies jump with joy. SCU Graveney batting & opens scoring. Lindwall to Edrich. CU Edrich batting. Miller to Graveney. Lindwall to Edrich, LBW disallowed. Miller gets Edrich LBW. Compton comes in. Compton caught Davidson. Compton walks off. Davidson bowling. Watson batting. Drinks. Benaud to Graveney & quick run Graveney’s fifty. Rain start, team run off. Lindwall bowling. Miller bowling. Simpson batting. Hit on elbow, & retires. Lindwall bowls Watson & hurts his foot, Watson jumps around. Evans batting, starts scoring. Bailey run out. GV play.

Keywords

Sport; Weather; Cricket; Accidents and disasters

Card file number

59450

Credits:

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Martin Gray

Length of story (in feet)

317

Story extras:

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