This Game of Cricket

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)

This Game of Cricket

TO take a hundred wickets in a season is not bad going in Xew Zealand. Following his bag of 102 in flic 103S-3<l season, Turn Sauvarin. <>f the Manukau second grade XI., this summer again reached three figures. Playing aga~ii)~t State Advances Corporation in the" City and Suburban competition Sauvarin ninety wickets to his credit when the game started. In the first innings lie set to work and secured eight of the number. After his team bad passed the opponents' score, skipper George Barnett immediately declared, to give Tom his la-t opportunity. So well did he bowl that lie captured another live and brought his final tally to 103 for the season" Besides being a bowler of class. Sauvarin is a fair batsman, and finished third in liis team's averages with IP.-If. lie lias also obtained more catches than other members with a total of ten. Tom in six seasons has now secured over .">OO wickets. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Senior B Highlights. Helping the juniors in order to permit of promising players being given senior status, three of the older North Shore members had their reward in a successful season, in which the club was runner-up to Papatoetoe for the senior B championship. 11. Rankin, who aggregated 00(5 runs, is the only batsman in the grade known to top (jOO runs for the summer. His average was '27A for 23 innings, once not out. He was second in Shore averages to \Y. Balmain, whose 34 average resulted from a dozen knocks, once not out. Tom Smith and Dick C'oates. two fastish bowlers, "scalped" ">S and 04 victims, Smith having a fractional better average with ll.nl to C'oates' 11.03. Three of the 17-ye'ar-old brigade to top ;*>oo runs were 11. B. Jones (Pon-sonby-Balmoral), the Brabin Cup skipper, whose •">(>- for the club as opening batsman gave him an average of 33, and the two Papatoetoe lads L. \Y. Deas onO (average 30.'>.')) and P. Elliott 529 (20.30). Top of the Papatoetoe averages was F. C. J'.dney, who scored 293 runs at an average of 32..">.

— ——————, FOOTBALL AND CRICKET IN ONE AFTERNOON j WHEN O. C. Cleal started at 1.30 j last Saturday week to knock j Parnell's bowling about at Vic- j toria Park, the spectators knew j he was in a hurry anyway, as the Papakura Camp XI. had to face a score of 350. What they did ! not realise was that "Ossie" had something else on his mind—an appointment at Blandford Park at three o'clock to captain the ' ! soldiers against the Auckland rep. Soccer XI. After being caught for 44 he made a fast I journey uptown, led Camp to a | 7—3 victory on the football field, j j then hastened back to Victoria | Park to bat again. This time he j was ninth on the batting list, and, ; after making six runs, he became the last of Mervyn Wallace's ten victims in the match.

| Others in' the Wickets. Besides the senior B players already ; referred to. there are naturally more ] with imposing figures for their seasons cri'-kct. Among these are two slow ] howler- who finished up with over 50 ! wickets. R. W. Galaugher, the liiain- ! stay <>f the Y.M.C.A. side, is a left- ! bander, and he playe<l havoc with the i opposition, as his tally of <!0 victims, at !.in average cru-t of 11 apiece, testifies. I The veteran. M W. Mcßride, skipj>er of i the Pon s onby-Balmoral eleven, which I started off hv beating last year's cliam- ] pion club (University). wound up the • summer with 54 wicket#:. Although | they cost him four more runs each than | those of (Jalaugher, the guile of McI Bride's flight and length nonplussed many opponents who wondered which way he would turn 'em when, to tell the truth, lie just bowled straight along the pitch! Murray was always a helpful skipper to the five young lefthanders who came from the secondary schools to his charge.