HUGE CRICKET SCORES
On Sun-Baked Wickets.—Forty- j Three Centuries. DESPITE THE SMALLER BALL. (Received 2 p.m.) LOXDOX, May 13. Xever has the cricket season opened in England with such terrific scores, insfciding no fewer than forty-three centuries in a fortnight. Everybody appears to be making them. Hobbs, lievrman and Bates have already knocked up over a hundred in each jnn!Lngs of one match. The smaller ball, designed to aid the overworked bowler, appears to have reacted against him. Contrariwise, experts declare that the phenomenal runs are not due to the bowler, or the ball, but to drought sun-baked! pitches throughout the whole country. Warm, rainless days have given perfect Australian wickets in many cases. Scores of 150 are common. The highest are Shepherd 277, and Duleepsinhji, 254.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 12
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