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Australians in England, 1938 
Middlesex v Australians 
Lord's, London 
28,30,31 May 1938 (3-day match) 
Result: Match drawn 
Toss: Australians 
Umpires: F Chester and FI Walden
 
Close of play:
  Day 1: No Play (Rain)
 Day 2: Australians 132, Middlesex 49/4 (Compton 17*, Human 9*)
Australians 1st innings
JHW Fingleton                            b Smith                2
CL Badcock            c Human            b Nevell              10
*DG Bradman           c Compton          b Nevell               5
SJ McCabe                                b Nevell               9
AL Hassett            lbw                b Sims                27
AG Chipperfield       c Compton          b Robins              36
MG Waite                                 b Sims                 8
+CW Walker            not out                                   4
WJ O'Reilly           lbw                b Robins               0
EL McCormick          c Smith            b Sims                12
LO'B Fleetwood-Smith  st Price           b Sims                10
Extras                (b 2, lb 6, nb 1)                         9
Total                 (all out, 44.3 overs)                   132
FoW: 1-2, 2-16, 3-22, 4-34, 5-88, 6-106, 7-106, 8-106, 9-119,
     10-132.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Smith                       15      5     23      1
Nevell                      12      1     38      3
Young                        4      1     10      0
Sims                         7.3    0     25      4
Robins                       6      1     27      2
Middlesex 1st innings
WJ Edrich                                b O'Reilly             9
+WFF Price            lbw                b McCormick            1
WH Webster            c Walker           b McCormick            0
DCS Compton                              b O'Reilly            65
JHA Hulme                                b O'Reilly             4
JH Human                                 b O'Reilly            24
*RWV Robins                              b McCormick           43
JM Sims               lbw                b McCormick            0
CIJ Smith             c Fingleton        b McCormick           11
WT Nevell                                b McCormick            0
JA Young              not out                                   4
Extras                (b 20, lb 3, nb 4)                       27
Total                 (all out, 53.2 overs)                   188
FoW: 1-16, 2-16, 3-16, 4-35, 5-92, 6-160, 7-161, 8-175, 9-175,
     10-188.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McCormick                   15      3     58      6
O'Reilly                    19.2    5     56      4
McCabe                       7      4     16      0
Waite                       12      2     31      0
Australians 2nd innings
JHW Fingleton         c Edrich           b Smith               32
CL Badcock                               b Nevell               0
*DG Bradman           not out                                  30
SJ McCabe             not out                                  48
Extras                (w 4)                                     4
Total                 (2 wickets dec, 39 overs)               114
DNB: AL Hassett, AG Chipperfield, MG Waite, +CW Walker,
     WJ O'Reilly, EL McCormick, LO'B Fleetwood-Smith.
FoW: 1-0, 2-52.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Smith                       12      4     26      1
Nevell                       7      2     16      1
Young                        5      2      7      0
Sims                         5      0     23      0
Robins                       4      0     10      0
Human                        2      0     14      0
Compton                      4      1     14      0
Middlesex 2nd innings (target: 59 runs)
WJ Edrich             not out                                  20
DCS Compton           not out                                   1
Extras                                                          0
Total                 (0 wicket, 6 overs)                      21
DNB: +WFF Price, WH Webster, JHA Hulme, JH Human, *RWV Robins,
     JM Sims, CIJ Smith, WT Nevell, JA Young.
FoW: .
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McCabe                       3      1      7      0
Waite                        3      0     14      0
 
-  First occasion a county side had dismissed the
    Australians for under 150 runs since Gloucestershire did so in
    August 1930.
 -  Bradman declared at 5.09pm, allowing Edrich 11 minutes to make
    the 10 runs required to complete a thousand runs in May
    (all made at Lord's).
   
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