WICKETS FALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 8

WICKETS FALL.

THREE DOWN FOR 32, OTAGO'S POOR BEGINNING. MTJXCOCK IN FINE FORM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , DUNEDIX, this day. • Glorious cricket weather in Dunedin saw K. F. M. Uttley and A. 3\. Knight; facing the bowling of Davis and MulcoCk at the opening of play in the OtagoCanterbury Plunket Shield game on a fast batsman's wicket. • Ten runs were quickly scored and then the pair became more cautious. Tift second ball of Mulcock's fourth over took Knight's bails after 24 minutes, the total being 17. A beautiful in-swinger, it completely deceived Knight, and Mulcock had one for 3. • J. G. Robertson was taken behind the. wicket off Alulcoek's second ball Of his fifth over and two wero down for 23j iMulcock having taken two wickets for fl. He was keeping an impeccable length and swinging disconcertingly to leg. D. A. R. Moloney was Mulcock's next victim, caught at second slip off the last ball of his eighth over. This made the score 32 for three. Mulcock had taken three for 12. Fifty appeared in 73 minutes, Elmes, hooking. Xcwtoii, who had replaced Davis to the boundary. Uttley was 23, and the Otago position then showed someimprovement, but the batsmen were singularly unenterprising Elmes' display was not consistently sound," several shots behind the wicket being uppish. . Uttley failed to regain his early aggression, .being .content to mako haste-slowly. • • At-lunch the score was 96. Scores:— OTAGQ.—First Innings. T Uttley, riot out —-. 37 Knight, b Mulcock ....... 6 Robertson, b Muleoek .J.is Molonev, c Bellamy, b Mulcock 7 Elmes, noffV oltt . _ 39 Total for three wickets 98" THIRD GRADE REPLAY. The umpires for the replay* match ia the third grade championship, between Eden A and Tamaki, to-morrow, are Messrs. 8.. E\~ans and A. le Bherz.