Cricket OTAGO BEATS CENTRAL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 6

Cricket OTAGO BEATS CENTRAL

Three Wickets In Hand

(New Zealana Pres, Association! PALMERSTON N., Jan. 9. Otago strengthened its hold on the Plunket Shield for the 1957-58 season when it beat Central Districts outright by three wickets at Palmerston North today. Needing 28 runs for an outright win with four wickets standing when the match entered its third day. Otago would not be hurried. It took 43 minutes before J. C. Alabaster sent the ball to the boundary for the winning hit, and in the intervening period Central Districts had taken the wicket of A. M. Moir. Scores:— CENTRAL DISTRICTS First Innings ’’ Second inning, .. na OTAGO First innings ..155 Second Innings E. A. Watson, c McGuire. b Bloomfield .. • • 0 J. R. Veitch, c Colquhoun. b Cave •. • • .. 17 S. N. McGregor, c McLeod, b Beard .. • • • • z g J. R. Reid, lbw, b Beard .. 9 N. R. Thompson, b Brown .. 6 G. H. Mills, c Colquhoun. b Bloomfield 26 A. M. Moir, c Smith, b Bloomfield • * .. 2 B. Sutcliffe, not out ..69 J C. Alabaster, not out 6 Extras .. •• ’ Total for seven wickets 167 Fall of wickets: one for 0, two for 43, three for 43. four for 54, five for 78, six for 135. seven for 145.

Shield Points With an outright victory over Central Districts in the match concluded at Palmerston North yesterday, Otago has moved further into the lead in the 1957-58 Plunket Shield competition. With three outright wins and one first innings loss in four matches, Otago leads comfortably from Auckland, with two outright wins and one outright loss. The details are:—

PLUNKET SHIELD AVERAGES

Sutcliffe’s Good Bowling

Alter the completion*-o£ the ninth Plunket Shield match of the season, between Otago and Central Districts at Palmerston North yesterday, the main change in the first-class averages has been the advance of B. Sutcliffe, the Otago left-arm spinner. In the first innings of the match against Central Districts, Sutcliffe took five wickets for 19 runs, and now occupies second place in the bowl, ing averages. Sutcliffe and N. S. Harford (Central Districts) also advanced slightly in the batting averages. The next matches will begin tomorrow. The new averages are:—

AUSTRALIANS DRAW Match Against Country Team (N.Z. Press Association — CopyrtgMf PRETORIA, January 8. The Australian’s two-day game against the South African Country Districts XI ended in a draw today with the Australians unable to make any serious bid for victory because of their limited attack on the easy pitch. The country team, needing 151 in its second innings to catch Australia’s first innings total of 314, batted out the last two hours, losing five wickets for 179 runs. The Australian opener. L Favell, hit a dashing century this morning, and Burge scored a hard-hitting 77. Scores:— COUNTRY DISTRICTS First innings .. ~163 Second Innings G Barber, lbw. b Craig .. .. 28 L Logan, run out .. 95 A Parker, c Simpson, b Burge 12 R Teale, b Jarman ..25 M Price-Moor, lbw, b Burke .. 1 E. Eaglestone, not but .. ...11 E. Hoffman, not out ..2 Extras .. .. ..5 Total for five wicket* .. 179 Bowling.—Mackay, 4 overs, 1 maiden, 11 runs, 0 wickets: Benaud, 2, 0. 9,0; Burke. 9. 0, 20, 1; Simpson, 5,0, 18, 0; Burge, 3,0, 17, 1; Craig. 3. 0, 19, 1; McDonald. 4. 0. 31, 0: Favell, 2, 0. 10, 0; Jarman. 3. 0. 29. 1; Grout. 1,0, 10, 0. AUSTRALIA First Innings C McDonald, c Hoffman, b Blenkinsop .. .. 35 L. Favell, c Price-Moor, b Barber .. 102 P Burge, c Eaglestone, b Henderson .. .. 77 1 Craig, c Brewer, b Blenkinsop 17 N Harvey, b Henderson 0 B. Jarman, b Henderson .. 23 W. Grout, b Henderson 0 R. Simpson, c Price-Moor, b Henderson .. 23 K. Mackay, c Henderson, b

j. Bunce. not out .. .. • R Benaud. c Brewer, b Headerson .. Extras ’ Total .. 31} rumutfn ’ickei'; Blenkinsop. 14, 2, 51. 2; Payne, 10. 0. 00. •: Barber, 7. 0. 50, 1; Hoffman. *. I. 34, 1.

NX WOMEN’S TOURNEY Rain Restricts Play In Dunedin (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN* January 9. Unfavourable weather today per mitted only an hour and 80 minutar play on the first day of the second round of matches in the HaHyburton Johnstone Shield tournament. Play began at the scheduled tin*, but two Interruptions caused loss of half an hour’* play before lunch. Heavy rain during the in* terval, and then showers, delay*; the resumption until 435 p m-. five minutes later heavy rate drove the player* into the peviiion. At this Stage play was abandon* for the day. In both matebes the npontag »»* rans for the first wicket for WOP lington in its match against And** land, and M. Speight and P. K —t •cored H in Otaso’s match aS»h* Canterbury. - - With so much lost time today ■ will be practtrelly impontalo lg any team to gain an outright d**’ sion. ao If i 'tall day’s nlay ie sible tomorrow there should ba quick scoring in an endeavour * gain a lead on the first innlnf*. Scores:— . _ n Otago, first Innings, three tot •• (M. Speight 27, P. Keen 25; r ‘ Blackler two for 20). Wellington: first innings, three to 61 (J. McAuley 27, J. McTavlsh » I Van Leyden two for 25>.

Boy Found Dead.—Miles Robert Gilbert, aged 13 years, wa* four® dead in a shed at Lincoln by b» grandfather at 11.45 a.m. yerter* day. An inquest will be. held.

Bowline O. M. B. w. P. Bloomfield .. 13 2 35 3 H. B. Cave .. 20.5 5 45 1 D. D. Beard .. 19 7 33 2 R. E. Brown ..7 2 26 1 K. F. H. Smith 4 1 16 0

p. Won 8pt 4pt Lost Opt 2pt Pts. Otago 4 3 - - 1 26 Auck. 3 2 - 1 - 16 C. Dist. .. 3 1 - 1 1 10 Well. 2 - 2 — — 8 Cant. 3 - 1 2 - 4 N. Dist. .. 3 - 2 1 2

Batting ton. ND. Agg. M. Chapple (C.) .. 5 1 233 L. Miller (W.) .. 4 1 113 Av. M3 B. Sutcliffe (O.) .. 2 297 49.5 R. Motz (C.) .. 1 48 48.0 N. Harford (CD.) 6 1 S. Quillen <C.) .. 5 - % S5 D. McLeod (C.D.) 1 171 342 D. Coleman (A.) .. 5 - 168 332 E. Petrie (ND.) ..3 1 66 322 R. Harris (A.) ..5 - 150 30.0 Bowlins Runs Wkta. Av. L. Clark <W.) 41 6 8.0 B. Sutcliffe (O.) .. a 6 102 R. Blair (W.) 105 10 102 J. Hayes (A.) 085 23 12.4 A. MacGibbon (C.) 07 7 13.8 J. Alabaster (O.) 401 27 14.8 A. Moir (O.) 357 23 152 K. Hough (A.) D. Beard (CD.) 231 378 14 15 M. Poore (C.) 192 11 172 W Frame (O.) 179 10 172 D. Clarke (ND.) .. 391 16 182 R Motz (C.) 143 8 182 B. Morrison (W.) .. 113 6 18.7 H. Cave (CD.) 332 12 192 A. Preston (W.) 77 4 192