for 205 before the spinners Johnson (6/66) and Benaud (3/58) despite the wicket turning little. The Australian XI did little better ending the second day on 167/7, Ronald Briggs (48) and Benaud (47) the top scorers as Trevor Bailey took 4/53 with his swing bowling. The third day was washed out, as was the fourth replacement day and the game ended in a draw. New South Wales vs MCC New South Wales was the strongest state the MCC would meet on the tour, winning the Sheffield Shield 14 times in 16 seasons between 1948–49 and 1961–62 and nearly 60,000 people came to see the champions take on the touring team over the course of the four day match. New South Wales were led by the flamboyant Keith Miller who won the toss and put the visitors in to bat, much to Len Hutton's annoyance as he wanted to do the same. Again he had to rescue the innings, making 102 and only receiving support from the baby-faced Colin Cowdrey who had yet to make a century in the County Championship, but made a sweetly timed 110 as they added 163 together. No other batsman exceeded 11 and the team was out for 252. Miller rotated his bowlers and the wickets were shared by Pat Crawford (3/51) whose drag allowed him to bowl a yard down the wicket, Alan Davidson (3/41), bowling with a shoulder injury, and the slow left-arm wrist-spin of John Treanor (3/64). Young Billy Watson, playing in his second First Class match raced to 155 and with the help of his captain's 86 took New South Wales past the MCC score three wickets down. From there wickets fell steadily to Frank Tyson 4/98 and Alec Bedser 4/117, who was suffering from a rash, and they were all out for 382. To try out potential openers Hutton put Vic Wilson and Cowdrey in first. Wilson was out for a duck, but Cowdrey made another hundred (103), but only Hutton himself (87), batting at number 6, gave him any help. The MCC were out for 327, Cowdrey and Hutton making 402 of the 577 runs scored, the other 9 batsmen making 117 in two innings. Even Miller saw that 198 for victory in 75 minutes was impossible and sent in his young players for batting practice and Cowdrey went for 38 runs off 3 overs doing bowling impressions of Ray