Cricket SOBERS TO TURN PROFESSIONAL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 19

Cricket SOBERS TO TURN PROFESSIONAL

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) KINGSTON (Jamaica), March 9. Garfield Sobers, who recently broke a 20-year test cricket record by carrying his bat for 365 runs against Pakistan, will turn professional for the Radcliffe Cricket Club, Lancashire. Sobers, who is only 21, has been unable to find a job in his native Barbados since leaving school, the American Associated Press reported. In a 8.8. C. radio link between Leeds, Yorkshire, and Barbados last night, Sir Leonard Hutton congratulated Sobers on breaking his world record. Waikato Wins Hawke Cup Match (New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, March 10. In the last Hawke Cup. cricket match of the season Waikato beat Hutt Valley by 288 runs. When play began on the final day today, Hutt Valley required 342 more runs for victory and had nine wickets in hand. In 72 minutes’ play the Hutt Valley innings was completed for 86, of which the New Zealand representative, T. Meale, scored a bright 53. The wreckers of the innings were D. B. Clarke and N. Puna. Waikato in its first winnings scored 236 and in the second innings 270. Hutt Valley’s first innings score was 132 and the second innings 86. Women’s Test Record (N.Z.P.A. —Reuter —Copyright) , ADELAIDE, March 10. The brilliant Victorian allrounder B. Wilson scored a record 127 in the women’s cricket test against England at the Adelaide Oval today. The previous highest test score was by M. Hide, of England, who made 124 not out against Australia in Sydney in 1949. Australia’s first innings ended today at 292. England, in its first innings, was 63 for four wickets at stumps.