OTAGO COUNTRY’ TEAM

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27851, 27 December 1955, Page 10

OTAGO COUNTRY’ TEAM

SUCCESS IN MATCH WITH CANTERBURY ELEVEN An Otago Sub-associations’ team, after dismissing a Canterbury eleven for* 155 runs in the first innings of a match which began at Hagley Oval yesterday, did well to score 133 runs for the loss of five wickets before the close of play. s The Canterbury side, which included many senior plavers. failed to make use of a pitch which played easily, ahd the betting generally was disappointing. The onlv batsman who showed much confidence was G. T. Dowling, vice-captain of the New Zealand Colts team to tour Australia. He scored 60. and G. Fraser plaved patiently for 40. Most of the Otago bowlers should have presented few problems, for after a feu overs they bowled short of a lencth, but the outstanding exception was A. Blakely, a capable leg spinner, who has met with success on previous visits to Christchurch Elakely bowled a tempting length to finish with the impressive figures of seven wickets for 39 runs off 24 overs, Inrluc’ing two excellent catches off his own bowline

C. Johnson, a medium-nace bowler, gave Otago a good start when he took the first two wickets before the total reached 10. and further success came when Blakely bowled Craig, to make three wickets down for 12 runs. Fraser, an opening batsman, was joined by Dowlihe in a good partnership which added 86 n ’”S- Aftpr a slow start they batted well, with Dowling scoring freely with some forceful square cuts. Fraser also showed some enterprise with forceful strokes all round the wicket. Both batsmen fell to Blakely, and after their dismissal the only natsman to reach double figures was A. Pearce, who scored a brisk 24. Most of Otago's runs came from a productive partnership between S. McKnight. who scored 66. and S Dunn, who assisted £» P !! b &^ ith . 34 ‘ McKnight. although a hard-hitting batsman, controlled bis shots and provided some entertaining cricket. They placed the side in a fairly - nund position for a first innings lead A " unusual feature of Otago’s innings was the loss to leg-before-wicket decisions of *° ur wickets of the five which fell The most successful of the Canterbury howlers was W. M. Duncan, who took two wickets with some accurate and good length bowling. The umpires are Messrs A. Liddicoat and A. L. Winter. Scores:—

CANTERBURY XI First Innings G. Fraser, c Buttar, b A. Blakely .. 40 E King, /b Johnson .. .. 0 B. Salt, b Johnson .. . o R Craig, b A. Blakely 1 G Dowling, c Graham, b A. Blakely 60 A Pearce, c Dunn, bA. Blakely .. 24 D. Giblin, st Clouston, b A. Blakely 2 G. K. Austin, c and b A. Blakely .. 8 W. M. Duncan, c and b Dunn .. 5 M. Stewart, not out .. 1 L. Langston, c and b A. Blakely .. 5 Extras (byes 7. leg byes 3) ..10

NORTH OTAGO TEAM AT ASHBURTON An excellent opening partnership by I Griffiths and D. Smith (Ashburton), which produc’d 128 runs, was a feature of the first day of the cricket match between teams representing North Otago and the combined Ashburton, South Canterbury. North Canterbury, and West Coast Minor and Sub-Associations at Ashburton yesterday. Smith, who batted aggressively, made 90 runs before being caught, and Griffiths, who played a more defensive game, scored 92 before being bowled. The combined team was all out for 282. With the exception of A. Wright, who scored 37. the performance of other Combined batsmen was mediocre.

North Otago had scored 64 runs for the loss of four wickets when play stopped for the day. D. Malloch (not out, 33) was the best scorer.

Bowling.—M. Sandri, 22 overs, 1 maiden, 68 runs, 1 wicket; M. Collings, 19. 2.1, 41; K. Murray, 24, 0, 80 3; J. Brown. 3. 0, 13. 0; D. Malloch. 2.0, 13. 0; R Malloch, 13. 2, 45. 2: T. Neave, 2.5, 0, 16, 3. NORTH OTAGO

Total for four wickets .. 64 Bowling.—S. Goodwin, 7 overs, 1 maiden, 11 runs, 1 wicket: D. Gunn, 8. 3, 10, 1; A. Wright. 8,4, 12, 1; R. Carter. 6. 1. 21.

WELLINGTON TEAM HAS EASY WIN

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. December 26. Fielding a much more experienced side. Wellington proved too strong for Northern Districts colts in a representative cricket match at the Basin Reserve. A scheduled three-day fixture was concluded inside two days. Wellington winning by an innings and one run. In its first innings Northern Districts made 96 (P. H. Smith 29. J. W. Kelly 15; B. D. Morrison six for 33. W J R Haskell two for 15. L. A. Clark two for 7) and in its second innings 180 (D. J. Gray 37. H. W. Larmer 28. W Bradburn A - h - Heston four for 55, R. S Chalhes three for 37. E. W. Dempster two for 29). zrJY ellingto "„ in innings made 277 f Dempster 63. Preston 59, J. E. F Beck 48. B. D. Morrison 31. A. Edgar 39; S Hough four for 55. M. Langdon two for

SHEFFIELD SHIELD MATCHES

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) . MELBOURNE, Dec. 26 Victoria was saved by test wicketkeeper Len Maddocks. • who scored 100 in the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. Maddocks whose previous highest first-class score was 69. scored his century in 117 minutes. Victoria was dismissed for 277 after losing five for 110. Sam Loxton scored 53. Crawford took four for 60 and Miller three for 69. The test players. Les Favell and Gil Langley, placed South Australia in a strong position in the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland. In a dashing opening partnership they scored 199 runs and at stumps South Australia had lost only two U'ickets for 261. Favell made 80 and Langley 97. J. Hill i> 58 npt out.

Total .. .. .. 156 Bowline: C. Johnson. 8 overs. 4 maidens. 4 runs, 2 wickets; E. Harley, 9, 3, 23, 0; A. Blakely. 24.1, 11. 39. 7: T. Graham, 5. 1, 13. 0: S. Dunn. 18. 4. 48. 1; M. Blakely. 3. 0. 19. 0. OTAGO SUB-ASSOCIATIONS First Innings S McK night. lbw. b Duncan .. 66 C. Johnson, lbw. b Langston .. 14 S. Dunn, lbw, b Austin .. ..34 M. Blakely,' st Pearce, b Salt .. 6 A Blakely lbw. b Duncan .. .. 1 I Smith, not out .. ..10 D. Buttar. not out .. .. 0 Extras (wides 1. byes 1) .. 2 Total for five wickets .. 133 Bowling: L. Langston. 5 overs. 0 maidens. 22 runs. 1 wicket; W. M. Duncan. 18. 8. 27. 2: B. Salt, 2. 4. 56. 1: G. K. Austin. 13. 4. 26. 1.

Scores:— COMBINED TEAM First Innings D. Smith, c and b Sandri 90 I. Griffiths, b R. Malloch 92 D. Hendry, c D Malloch. b Collings 9 J. Capstick, lbw, b Murray 12 H. Cullen, c Sandri, b R. Malloch 8 A. Dennis, c Neave, b Murray } A. Wright, b Murray, 37 S. Goodwin, c Sandri, b Neave 14 E. H. Richards, b Neave 5 D. Gunn, not out .. .. 8 R. Carter, lbw. b Neave 0 Extras ... 6 Total 282

First Innings T. Neave, lbw, b Wright .. ..3 H. Balk, lbw, b Goodwin .. .. 9 D. Malloch, not out ..33 B. Carleton, c Richards, b Gunn .. 4 I. Geddes, c Smith, b Carter .. .. 2 K. Murray, not out .. ..11 Extras .. ... .. 2