TEN FOR 39

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 8

TEN FOR 39

N.Z. DEMON BOWLER

NO ASSISTANCE FROM FIELD

(0.C.) WELLINGTON, this tiny. Records arc made to be broken or equalled however long it takes, and the feat of Tom Pritchard in taking all ten Auckland wickets for 30, at Basin Reserve Yesterday, is the only time that such a remarkable performance Jjas been turned on since A. E. Moss dismissed 10 Wellingtonians for 2S runs. He was playing for Canterbury, at Christchurch, in the ISSO-OO season. The ex-Taranaki and Manawatu express needed no assistance from the field, as he hit the stumps of nine of the Northern Army team and claimed the other wicket leg-before. The nearest approach in recent years of a bowler '.'going the limit" in firstclass cricket in New Zealand was at Eden Park, on Christmas Eve, 1929, when the Sussex coach, A. F. (mediumpace), captured nine'Otago wickets for 36 runs, off 24 overs, of which 13 were maidens. _ _ . , A peculiar all-ten effort was that of H. G. Vivian in the 1938-30 season for Parnell against University on the Devonport pitch. Five of his opponents fell to his own bowling and he caught the other five off Mervyn Clark. Pritchard, who is holder of the Wmson Memorial Cup, awarded to New 1 Zealand's champion bowler, yesterday sent down a dozen overs, of which, one "was a maiden. While the critics vary about Weir's action in sending Wellington in to bat after he had won the toss, there is a consensus of opinion that the absence of the magic bat of Mervyn Wallace spoilt the game irrespective of the vagaries of the pitch. The position when stumps were pulled last evening was that Wellington was 255 runs up and still had two wickets to fall. The home side made 130 for a start, dismissed Auckland for 77, and had 190 on the board for eight wickets when play ended for the day.

Scores: — WELLINGTON. —First Innings Barker, b Weir 0 Whiting, b Weir " O'Brien, b Partridge J' Coupland, c Posties, b Andrews « Lamason. c Posties, b Andrews 30 Norris, b Partridge f Liver, b Partridge Blakeley. b Partridge * Chadwick, b Partridge <J Pritcl-ard, b Partridge «. •» Brooker, not out " Kxtras Total ' 136 Bowling: Partridge six for 31, Weir two for 30, Andrews two for 57, Brown none for 3. AUCKLAND.—First Innings Haliday, b Pritchard *5 Posties, lbw, b Pritchard * Archer, b Pritchard f Taylor, b Pritchard J i; Weir, b Pritchard " Hook, b Pritchard *£ McKenzie, not out Partridge, b Pritchard « Carroll, b Pritchard Andrews, b Pritchard * Brown, b Pritchard « Extras ° Total 77 Bowling: Pritchard ten for 39, Brooker none for 11, Lamason none for 22.