BEST BAG OF CAREER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)

BEST BAG OF CAREER

Cowie Excels 011 the North Shore Pitch j-jth Over Sixty Wickets: O. Cleal Biggest Scorer: 'Keepers Do Well.

for all-round effoits it is doubtful if this season's cricket romances have been excelled. Four men have already needed 50 wickets; a similar number has topped 600 runs; nd the 'keepers have imposing figures. With the final series 'till to be reckoned with, statistics at present show O. C. Cleal top '( the batting aggregate with 750 runs; J. Cowie leading the Lwlers with 62 wickets; and C. K. Jackman with as many as 33 victims behind the stumps.

three Other batsmen haw already !■: »W.-. v. ... L and W. H. t oojmt. tl..- named iUea.ilyt - pro! i lb- scorer n Auckland »>nce "' r thl>h "^ ' His inning* have been !)\ 1 arj.' 100 not out. v. Tiaininu College: a v lira ft on; S3 not out. v. hd.n: i |.m v I'oii.-fiil»y-1 !.i 1 mi »r;t i. Thus IhasTmasscd I>7 run*.in hi- h.-t live iSothccron-, W. M. Wa11.,,.,, and V Martin botli lintl a elm lire or rcai-hing m for the sMfon at the end of the last Saturday, uhile 11. (J. Walters, H. T. Pearson and A. .1. I'ostles ttte approaching IllMe batting figures ellipse last vtar's when Pearson (ti:W> was the only mn to reach the. (>t>o mark. His closest lams were ("leal ■«, V. S. Sale aland Wallace 308. J. E. Mills (400) lid'the next best tally. Two years ago, however, W. >!• Wallace, ran up four lijnres (1002). .Scott (07 1) wan not fir behind—he had actually got 1000 •mn a season earlier, 1937 -i-S. Code's bag is the best of his career il club cricket, and his performance iiailt emphasises that fast howlers excel on the -North Shore wicket. Following him are D. C. Clover ley and C. Burke, both on 56, and A. M. Matheson 30. The M total last summer was 5" by Clevedcy. Then there was a drop all the »ir do"'" to Coivie.'s 4], Matheson wing third with 38. Three others have miclied the 40 mark so far, S. K. Harrison, H. J. H. Harrison and O. C. C leal. <ratt (37) looks certain to also get into the forties, in which case there would Ik as many an eight men with 40 or more wickets compared with only two in 1939-40. Going hack a season earlier, «c find that only three, men exceeded the 40—. J. B. Simpson • r '7, If. (J. Vivian ,15, Vivian was top of the averages with 11.21 to Simpson's 14.08. (J. I'urke lock 44 wickets at an average of 14.23.

C. K. Jackman, whose 16 victims (six ®ight, 10 stomped) last summer put on top in the wicket-keeping department, has practically doubled that tally ™ season. D. B. Edmonds, who was the leader in 1938-39 with 26 "ecalps" to Jackman's 22, is lying second to i man, and A. H. Smith cannot disP»M Edmonds as the Eden colt (who 'weeded brother Bruce when transf® Bank of New Zealand at rgaville) left for Levin this afternoon 0 «art training as an air pilot. In the fielding department, Pearson present leader with 11 catches. 1 , G - Emery (11) was beet man ' * ear > Pearson and Matheson

cipial on nine. Ihe 'Varsitv skipper had the l>est. figures for 1938-39, when lie caught a dozen.

There have been nearly 200 players taking part in this season's games, the abnormal number being due to the increased number of teams and the filling of so many vacancies caused by military -crvice. The under mentioned lists contain fhe names of 58 batsmen with an average of over 20. and 37 bowlers who have at least 10 wickets to their credit. Many of the latter men also appear among the 58. The figures are: —

BATTING. Ins. N.O. Runs H.S. Aver. V. J. Scott ...... 15 6 648 102* 72 60 W. H. Cooper 14 3 640 12a 58.18 J. A. R. Blandford 7 - 374 126 53.42 D. O. Waters 6 2 208 74 52.00 A. McLean 5 1 184 86 46.00 B. SutclifTe 6 - 262 122 43.66 P. K. Whitelaw .16 1 654 110 43.60 A. J. Postles .... 11 - 460 112 41.81 N. Martin 14 1 514 10* 39.53 O. C Cleal 19 - 750 118 39.47 W. M. Wallace ... 13 - 503 98 38.69 L. B. Schnauer .10 3 270 101* 38.57 H. T. Pearson ...13 1 456 79 38.00 O. L. Weir 9 1 295 71 36.87 J. H. Elliott 9 3 213 105* 35.50 R. Johns 14 4 346 93 34.60 G. w. Delamore .7 - 242 66 34.57 H. G. Vivian 9 - 311 98 34.55 V. McCarthy 5 2 103 75* 34.33 B. H. Warner ... 8 - 270 89 33.75 H. S. Mills 9 1 269 73 33.62 H. O. Walters ... 14 - 465 90 33.21 J- Cowle 13 1 39b 92 32.91 W. L. Elliott 5 - 160 72 32.60 J. R. Capsttrk ...11 2 286 95* 31.77 O. W. Burgess ... 12 - 367 123 30.58 T. Cleave 6 182 93 30.33 V- J?- „ v ' vlan ....13 - 389 104 29.92 A. J. Bell 14 I 382 136 29.39 t.. R. Marvin 11 - 323 78 29.36 D. C. Cleverley .10 6 116 30* 29.00 A. M. Matheson 12 2 289 66 28 90 A. N. Thompson . . 6 - 173 51 28 82 D. P. Cederwall . 5 1 115 49 38.75 J. E. Mills 13 1 335 68* 27.91 J. D Lewis (Camp) 8 - 223 57 27 87 D. Williams 9 3 167 54° 27.83 8. R. Harrison .8 4 108 54 * 27.00 0. Wallace 14 2 324 72 27.00 W. R. Rowntree . 9 - 243 64 27 00 D. B. Edmonds ... 14 1 338 85* 26.00 L. C. Archer ... 9 - 231 47 25 66 N. A. McMahOn . . 12 - 301 120 25.08 D. D. Taylor 12 - 301 78 25.08 N. Ellis 12 1 275 69 25.00 I. W. Cooper 9 1 199 61 24.87 J. Forsman 7 1 146 45* 24.33 H. J. H. Harrison 13 2 267 58 24.27 J. R. Johnson ... 18 3 340 95 22 66 L. W. Fleetwood .6 - 133 45 22.66 M. Bcneham 6 2 90 29* 22 50 M. Clark 13 1 263 74* 21.93 W. Wheeler 14 3 241 48 21.90 R. Connell a 1 152 51 21.71 A. V. wiles 10 1 195 45 21.66 F. M. Andrews .12 3 191 71 21 22 J. A. Lewis, Parnell 12 4 186 41 20.75 C. P. Lund 13 - 261 70 20.07 •Denotes not out. BOWLING. Wickets Runs Average J. Cowle 62 677 10.91 C. Burke 56 678 12.10 D. R. Garrard ... 17 208 12.11 H. J. H. Harrison 40 542 13.55 8. R. Harrison ... 43 588 13.67 V. J. Scott 37 533 14.40 D. C. Cleverley ... 56 823 14.69 E. Prentice 29 439 15.13 A. M. Matheson .. 50 788 15.76 W. R. Rowntree .. 15 238 15.86 Colin Snedden 23 394 17.13 F. M. Andrews ... 33 592 17.93 1. cleal 20 359 17.95 A. N. Thompson .. 10 180 18.00 X. W. Cooper 23 420 18.26 T. McArthur 11 206 18.72 O. C. Cleal 40 755 18.87 Alan McLean 14 268 19.14 E. Clapham 16 326 20.37 Cyril Snedden .... 10 208 20.80 A. V. Wiles 17 356 20.94 H. S. Mills 15 316 21.06 O. L. Weir 14 301 21.50 L. B. Schnauer ... 27 596 22.07 F. Warrington 27 603 22.32 F. Goodsir 33 737 22.33 c. M. OUlver 14 314 22.42 J. Felts 23 521 22.65 J. Brown 24 546 22.75 H. G. Vivian 17 399 23.47 W. H. Cooper 28 670 23.92 J. B. Stevenson ... 32 816 25.50 R. H. Bentley 21 629 29.95 W. Wheeler 15 472 31.46 H. E. Warneford . 13 424 32.61 J. R. Capstick .. 13 445 34.23 M. Clark 16 558 34.87 WICKETKEEFING. Catches Stumping C. K. Jackman ... 16 17 D. B. Edmonds ... 14 S A. H. Smith 11 » C. W. Morris 13 4 D. G. ReveU 13 1 E. A. Butler 5 7 J. A. R. Blandford 6 4 J. Annan 4 3 R. W. Rowntree .. 6 1 N. M. Sherer 3 . 3 W. Turner 2 4 B. H. Warner .. 4 1 F. B. Boaden 4 1 CATCHES. H. T. Pearson. 11: A. M. Matheson. H. a. Smith. 10: P. E. Whitelaw. W. M. Wallace. 8; W. M. Winter. V. J. Scott. M. Clark. 7; -F. Warrington. Q Wallace. C. Burke. A. Richards, O. C. Cleal, R. H. Bentley, H. James. «: D. D. Taylor, A. N. Thompson. V. 8. Sale. W. H. Cooper, J. S. Jones. J. R. Johnson, E. Clapham. W. F. Boaden. E. G. Boggs. S.