PLUNKET SHIELD,

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 3 March 1930, Page 14

PLUNKET SHIELD,

CANTERBURY'S EASY WIN.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Canterbury won the Plunket Shield match against Otago to-day by an innings and 227 runs. It was a perfect cricket day—calm and hot, with a cloudless sky—and the wicket and the outfield were in the best condition.

Canterbury's first innings was declared closed with seven 'wickets down for 523. This was at 2.25 p.m., and at 5.15 p.m. Otago were all out for the modest ecoro of 124. The decisive victory of Canterbury was due laregly to the batting of Powell and Dorreen, who put on 265 runs for the sixth wicket in 126 minutes.

When play commenced in the morning, R. O. Talbot and Powell, the two not out men, began scoring at once, but Talbot was caught by Lemin off Knight after adding 10 to his score. In the first hour of play 108 runs were scored. Powell hit two sixes in quick succession off Moloney and reached his century after batting for 107 minutes. When his score was 130, he hit two more- sixes off Moloney. He was by this time slogging at every ball from the slow bowler, and it was by miss-hitting a ball from Moloney that his end came. He was far ont of his' crease and» was stumped. Burrows joined Dorreen and with him carried the score to 523, when the innings was declared closed. Otago never looked like making a fight in the second innings. Three wickets fell for 12 runs. Cavanagh-, with Gale, stopped the" procession, but the score mounted slowly. Eventually Cavanagh played one on from Cromb. 60—4 —22. Barrow joined Gale, but within minutes Otago lost the sixth wicket, Gale being dismissed by a brilliant catch by Powell. Monk and Moloney played the bowling with safety and carried the total to 118 when Monk was caught by Powell off Burrows. The last three wickets added only six runs. The scores were: —

CANTERBURY. —First Innings. Cromb, lbw, b Dunning 37 Kerr, st. Hawkesworth, b Moloney .. 70 Roberts, b Lemin 41 Jacobs, c Strang, b Moloney 2b Crawford, b Knight &> R, O. Talbot, c Lemin, b Knigbt 23 Powell, st Hawkesworth, b Moloney .. 164 Dorrecn, not out 10>» Burrows, not out <? Extras " ■• • 17 Total for seven wickets (declared) 523

Bowling.—Dunning took one wicket for .36 runs, Lemin one for 80, Monk rone for 79, Knight two for 44, Cavanagh none for 30, Moloney three for 132. OTAGO. First innings •.. 172 Second Innings. Strang, c Roberts, b Burrows 5 Giles, run out • ; > Knight, c bK. 0. Talbot .... 1 Cavanagh, b Cromb 22 Gale, b Gibbs , 28 Barrow, c Dorreen, b Cromb 0 Moloney, c Cromb, b Burrows 17 Monk, c Powell, b Burrows 26 Dunning, c Burrows, b G. L. Talbot .. 4 Hawkesworth, lbw, bR. O. Talbot ... 0 Lemin, not out 0 Extras • • 7 Total 124 Bowling.—R. 0. Talbot took two wickets for 10 runs, Burrows two for 23, Cromb two for 42, G.-L. Talbot one for 4.