PLUNKET SHIELD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10807, 30 December 1926, Page 3

PLUNKET SHIELD

WIN FOR AUCKLAND.

FIVE WICKETS TO SPAKE. I (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. I In the Pliinket Siiield match, concluded at Lancaster Park yesterdaj', [ Auckland boat Canterbury by five wickets. The ending was rather tame, but the game did not lack excitement. At one time yesterday it looked as if Canterbury had a good chance of winning. When play ceased on Tuesday, Canterbury had lost seven wickets for 216 runs, -good batting by Page, Boon, Read and Sandman having retrieved 1 a bad start. Yesterday Canterbury’s innings closed at noon for 257, and Auckland were left with 166 to make

in order to win. The hopes of Canterbury ‘ supporters ran high when Head bowled Bowley, the English prates- - sional, when tlie score was only two. (Hooper and Mills remained together until the luncheon adjournment, when the total was 47 for one wicket. Before luncheon the turf had dried' up and conditions were much easier for ’ the bowlers than they were at the start of the day’s play, when the ball was greasy. However, just before play was resumed, light rain commenced to fall, and continued for over an hour. At one stage, Patrick, the Canterbury captain, appealed for an adjournment, bn account of the rain, but this the umpires refused. In spite of the greasy ball and the insecure i foothold due to the slippery tuff, Read and Cunningham managed to get rid of Cooper, Mills, Alcott and Dacre, and with,five wickets down for 72 runs, Canterbury’s hopes ran high. Then Gillespie and Prater commenced a. partnership which, in spite of changes of bowlers, remained unbroken, and which won the match for Auckland. The game ended shortly after 4 p.m. Gillespie made 54 I not out and Frater 51 not out. Both batted soundly and they faced the bowling with much more confidence than any of the other Auckland batsmen who went in before them. Toward the end of the gam© the rain ceased and the sun shone out, but it was too. late to be of any use to Canterbury. From after the luncheon adjournment onwards the bowlers laboured under the

disadvantages of a greasy ball, which

required the use of sawdust after practically every delivery, and a slippery turf which made an insecure foothold.

The fielding of Canterbury was generally good, but it was marred by the dropping of one or two catches- which should have been held.

Though beaten, Canterbury were not disgraced. After their poor showing on the first day, they madei a magnificent recovery on the second, and, with a little more luck as regards weather,

they might have pulled the game out of the fire yesterday.

CANTERBURY

First Innings

... 128

Second Innings

G. It. Gregory, run out 6 C. G. Crawford, c and b Alcott ... 15 A. Cox, c Cooper, b Player ... 10 C. Oliver, b Alcott ... ... ... 0 M. L. Page, Ibw, b Bowley ... 78 W. R. Patrick, c Gillespie, b Bowley 8 D. Sandman, e and b Bowley ... 15 R. Read, lbw, b Matheson ... 44 W. Cunningham, run out M. Boon, b Bowley ... i.. 72 J. T. Burrows, not out ... ... 1 Extras ••• 6 Total 257 Bowling.—A. S. Player one for 50, Alcott two for 71, Bowley four for 84, Cooper none for 23, Daero none for 10, Wilson none for 9, Math'eson one for 4. AUCKLAND. First Innings 220 Second Innings. E. H. Bowley, b Bead ... ■••• - I. W. Cooper, c Page, b Read ... 20 H. E. Mills, lbw, b Cunningham ... 29 C. Alcott, b Cunningham ... 0 C. Dacre, b Cunningham 1 H. D. Gillespie, not out 54 R. E. Prater, not out 51 Extras Total (for five wickets) ... 167 Bowling.—-Cunningham two for 60, Read three for 49, Sandman.none for 21, Patrick none for 13. Burrows none for 14.

WELLINGTON v. OTAGO. i WELLINGTON, 'December 29. The Plunket Shield match Wellington v. Otago was continued to-day. For Wellington, Brice and James put up a record for a last wicket in Shield matches. Otago require to make 621 in their second innings to win. Scores: WELLINGTON. First innings 448 Second Innings. R de It . 'Worker, c Green, b Alloo 2o J. S. Hiddleston, c and b A. W. Alloo ' 21 B. J. Kortlang, c Blamires, b A. W. , Alloo 9 C. S. Dempster, b Blunt ... 6 T. C. Lowry, b Torrance 44 H N. Lambert, c and b Blunt ... 2o H. M. McGirr, e H. C. Alloo, b Torrance ... ••• m A. S. Hollings, bA. W. Alloo ... 23 K James, not out ... ... ... 10/" F. T. Badcock, st Green, b Blunt 35 W. S. Brice, bA. W. Alloo ... 70 Extras ... ... ••• ••• l 2 Total 379 Bowling Analysis.—A. W. Alloo took five wickets for 94 runs, Dickinson none for '6B, Blamires none for 12, Blunt three for 113, Torrance two for 47, H. C. Alloo none for 3.

OTAGO. First innings 237 Second Innings. J. 'Shepherd, b Badcock ... ... 9 R. C. Blunt, c Lambert, b Brice 38 A. Knight, c Hollings, b Badcock 19 R. Cherry, b Badcock ... ... 11 A. W. Alloo, b McGirr ... , ... 19 G. Dickinson, c Hiddleston, b McGirr ••• 13 E. C. Blamires, not out ... ... 2 C. Zimmerman, not out ...' ... y Extras ... ••• H

Total (for six wickets) ... 122