Between Overs

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28750, 22 November 1958, Page 5

Between Overs

A great first-wicket partnership of 199 by B. Sutcliffe and R. A. J. Blair, allowed North-East Valley to declare its first innings closed against University at Dunedin last Saturday with 273 for the loss of four wickets. Sutcliffe scored 155 not out and Blair lost his wicket after scoring 74. Sutcliffe scored his runs in better than even time and the pair put on the 199 runs in two hours.

The first over bowled by the former Wellington Plunket Shield bowler, L. A. Clark, caused consternation in the ranks of the Kaikori batsman in the Otago senior competition last week. Clark took three wickets with his first six balls and ended the day with the good figures of five for 59 of! 15 overs.

The gifted New Zealand cricketer, Martin Donnelly, will come out of retirement briefly to play in a charity match today. Others taking part in the match, at Sydney, include Keith Miller, S. G. Barnes, Arthur Morris, J. H. Wardle, F. R. Brown, A. V. Bedser, R. Saggers, R. N. Harvey, N. O'Niell and J. Burke.

S. C. Guillen's good score on Saturday should soon be followed

j 1 ones, for in the last six years he has been a most successful batst man in club | cricket. He started during i the 1952-53 sea- ■ son, and since then has scored 2976 runs at « n average of 38. including six | centuries and 13 half - centuries.

His highest score so far is 179 not out against Old Boys in 1954-55. and in 1956-57 he had the distinction of scoring two centuries in a match against East Christchurch—l 32 and 104 not out. Guillen’s wicket-keeping was also most valuable; his victims totalled 106—79 caught and 27 stumped.

The leading wicket-takers in i the senior competition so far are: : P. A. Small and G. D. Alabaster i (17), S. C. Guillen (15), W. Bell and T. Jones (13), C. G. Smith ' (12), J. B. Park and B. A. Bolton ' (10) Top of the averages is D. J. Reid (8.4) followed by Alabaster (10.2), Park (11), Small (11.3), J. Harliwich (11.7), Guillen (12.1) Smith (12.2), G. Austin (12.3), and B. Salt (12.5).

i The J. Lindsay who opened the I South Canterbury innings in the • Show Day match against a Can- - terbury Eleven is a son of the > former All Black, Dave Lindsay.

The half-century made for Old Collegians on Saturday by G. L. Perry was a valuable contribution

to the side’s ultimate victory over Old Boys. But Perry has made a habit of producing useful innings or spells of bowling over the last few years. He is not the most elegant of batsmen, but he is a practical and de-

termined one, and his swing bowling has broken a good many dangerous partnerships. Perry also enjoys a considerable reputation as a fieldsman.

W. R. Playle, a member of the New Zealand team in England this year, scored 105 not out for Eden against Cornwall in an Auckland .club match on Saturday.

With three rounds of the senior competition completed, the leading batting aggregates are those of J. W. D’Arcy (227), R. C. Motz <200), G. D. Alabaster (158), W. A. Hadlee (155), R. T. Hunt (137), P. Harman (132), B. A. Haworth (1.30), G. T. Dowling (123), J. D. Capstick and M. E. Chapple, each (117). The top averages are: D’Arcy (75.7), B. Irving (72), Motz (66.7), Harman (66). Dowling (61.5), Alabaster (39.5). Chapple (39), Hadlee (38.7), S. C. Guillen (38). B. A. Bolton (37.3).

J. E. F. Beck continues to have little success in club cricket. On Saturday he scored only 3 for Karori against Wellington College Old Boys. • The Auckland opening batsman R. M. Harris, who scored a fine century against Canterbury at Lancaster Park last summer, and who batted well in the final trial match, made 67 on Saturday for Papatoetoe against Grafton.

There were several excellent bowling displays in the Otago association’s senior competition last Saturday, but none equalled that of the New Zealand and Otago leg spinner, A. McK. Moir. For Grange he took eight Albion wickets for 39 runs off 23 overs.

The Sydenham stock bowler, J. Harliwicb, has played only one game for Canterbury—some seven years ago—but

this season the selectors may be glad of someone who has Harliwich’s attributes of fitness and accuracy. Harli- ; wich is always a trier, and if he is not an exciting• bowler, he has : been a very valu-: able one in a

team which has been struggling in the 10 years of his senior career. In the last two seasons and the start of the present one. Harliwich has bowled 665 overs for only 1180 runs and 84 wickets. Since he began for Sydenham seniors during the 1948-49 season, he has sent down 2073.2 overs, 658 of them maidens, and taken 244 wickets for 4664 runs, an average of under 20. Harliwich has also distinguished himself occasionally as a batsman —last Saturday was an example —as a water polo and indoor basketball player. • West Christchurch-University is one of the four top teams, but with a little luck it could already have established a useful lead for the championship. On Saturday Sydenham’s last pair deprived West Christchurch-Uni-versity of victory by a narrow margin, and in the previous round East Christchurch’s last batsmen just staved off an innings defeat. These narrow losses cost the combined team a further 11 points.