THE AVERAGES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25449, 22 March 1948, Page 5

THE AVERAGES

JAMES AND SMALL HEAD LISTS

cricket ! compftiUon r °w??'h fa H the urday, was whlch ended on Satp!ayer, a. r MacCihh° !d Collegians matches MarCihuJ? lac^lbbon - ' nine an avSage , 474 a * at an average cost nf 37 wicket s. next best all-rmSirt 1 16 i 5 H" 18 - The that of R h Performance was also plaved ~ U < Rlc carton), who nms He scored 413 (average 171) 29-5) and took 44 wickets seSS, “Shest batting aggregate for the (Bast Ctafichwih) , by V - James order belne n - ' , tw ° next in Park) 616 and r .a Y2 ter « (Lancaster 612. Most Smith (St - Albans) Booker (Wert ™.A= re taken by J. Cook (Old BovS 4 ,6- R. FChristchurch). Meh 45? R ' Taplm < East batsme t n e who er hfvc S h ‘ Cl i f ° liow - only or more anH° u ave Ptayed five innings morT r a„ a^ ni i aye ?™ ra ged 20 runs 5 bcwlers IRtoS 8 ' .. included. The 10 or more wSU thos . e wh ° have takSn of 30 runs at an average cost abbreviations are * r„T he t , f ° u °wing West he C^t S -r E ' . E ® Christchurch? W S S.. Sydenham; A-% d . &;°i:

Most catches in the field were taken by Anderson (Old Boys), 11, Johnston (West Christchurch) 9, J. E. Brazil (West Christchurch) 8, and Scott (Riccarton) 8. Of the wicket-keepers, most wickets were claimed by W. Burton (West Christchurch), who took 25 catches and made four stumoings, a total of 29. A. E. L. Britton (Old Boys) totalled 23. and Whitford (Riccarton), 20. Sixteen centuries were scored during the season, V. James and J. Smith each making three.

Batting W W James (E.) 12 A -Hadlee (O.B.) 12 2 McD. Anderson H.S. Ag 203* 706 136 512 Av. 78.44 51.20 R. „ _ (O.B.) 10 4?V> Leg ,® at (O-B ) 13 T. Dowker (LJ».) 14 Smith (St. A.) .. 16 R. MacGibbon 1 1 101 503 101* 429 132 616 139 612 50.30 47.67 47.38 40.80 J. „ e _ (O.C.) 14 C. Saunders 2 134* 474 39.50 I? P t «. (O.C.) 11 J. Shaw (O.C.) 15 A. Baxter (O.B.) 12 g’gM'' 10 3 3 1 59 279 105* 486 69 287 103* 281 34.87 34.71 31.88 31.22 O. R. R. P. F. Whitford < ?R.) A . ) . 16 L. Kerr (W.) .. 8 Cassidy (W.i .. IT H. Scott <R.) .. 16 Arnold |W.) .. 16 P. O.’Brien 2 0 2 2 1 68 435 85 496 102* 182 124 473 75 413 70 442 31.07 31.00 30.33 29.56 29.59 29.47 R. R. „ „ (St. A.) 15 H. Gould (O.C.) 9 Hitchcock (L.P.) 12 0 0 2 75 441 93 262 70 282 29.40 29.11 28.20 B. Cromb (L.P.) 12 . 0 80 317 26.41 P. Z. Harris (St. A.) 5 2 35* 8 26.00 R. W. G. Emery F. „ „ (W.) 14 B. Smith (O.B.) 11 0 0 84 363 98 278 25.93 25.27 r’. V. Walter (O.C.) 13 King (R.) 13 0 75 303 23.31 2 65 256 23.27 R. Peacock (E.) . 16 2 80 323 23.07 N. Falloon (L.P.) ,. 10 34* 134 22.33 R. Davey (L.P.) .. 14 0 74 309 22.07 C. G. Hamilton M , (O.C.) 14 3 58* z 242 22;00 Stanley (E.) .. 15 2 71 285 21.92 R. Cullen (R.) . 18 1 59 370 21.77 p. Small (O.B.) .. 9 58 173 21.62 •J. McNaughton (E.) 15 0 110 322 21.47 A. E. L. Britton (O.B.) 8 3 63 107 21.40 A. Burgess (S.) .. 17 0 102 361 21.23 W Burton (W.) .. 17 0 84 359 21.12 G G. Coull (St. A.) 12 • Not out. 1 72* 230 20.91 Bowling « .. o. M R. W. Av. P. Small (O.B.) .. 274.5 88 493 > 2 11.74 R Cassidy (W.) .. 71.1 19 177 15 11.80 W Pollitt (L.P) 84 20 174 3 13.38 J. Booker (W.) .. 274.2 79 742 6 16.13 C. G. Snook (Oa.) 250.4 85 488 to 16.27 A. R. MacGibbon (O.C.) 225.3 57 611 7 16.51 S. M..Cameron (S.) 149.1 45 333 0 16.65 L t Mahoney (L.P.) 237 71 575 4 16.91 r. F. Cook (O.B.) 256.3 56 763 5 -16.95 R. H. Scott (R.) .. 319.4 82 753 4 17.11 M. K. Lohrey (E.) 231.2 60 533 1 17.19 D. McKay (S.) .. 265.2 90 623 6 17.31 F. Dawson (R.) .. 94.2 20 245 4 17.50 Rl Burtt (St. A.) 239.5 W. G. Emery (W.) 234 54 670 17.63 68 537 0 17.90 A Taplin (E.) .. 2652 H. Candlish 47 832 5 18.49 (R.) 184 25 612 1 19.74 W McD. Anderson (O.B.) 114.5 19 358 8 19.88 F. P. O’Brien (St. A.) 120 32 312 5 20.80 A Burgess (S.) .. 133 24 386 8 21.44 N. V. Burtt (S.) .. 206.4 30 731 >4 21.50 R. Stuart (R.) .. 1902 33 523 4 21.79 y. Smith (L.P.).. 103 McMaster 25 262 2 21.33 (St. A.) 262T.5 69 664 9 22.89 j Kiddey (St. A.) 101.1 24 348 5 23.20 G. Smart (S.) .. 195.5 44 551 2 25.05 M Johnston (W.) .,154 H. T Alpers 30 426 7 25.06 (O.C.) 212 59 595 3 25.87 W O. Mappiebeck (L.P.) 211.4 49 616 2 28.00 j , C. Saunders (O.C.) 166.1 49 371 3 28.54 j S. Patrick (W.) 211.4 26 660 3 28.69 I. B. Cromb (L.P.) 137.1 29 432 5 28.80