HUNT AND BEUTH HEAD SENIOR CLUB AVERAGES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29165, 28 March 1960, Page 17

HUNT AND BEUTH HEAD SENIOR CLUB AVERAGES

The senior cricket championship, won by Lancaster Park for the third successive season, was notable for the consistent bowling successes in most of the teams competing, and the remarkably few runs made by batsmen. The top batting aggregate was 548, by P. G. Z. Harris, of St. Albans, and this is the lowest figure for 14 years, save the 195455 season, when S. C. Guillen and G. G. Coull eached scored 540. This summer only two batsmen averaged more than 40. and in the 15 post-war seasons there has been only one to equal that; there were only two batting averages in excess of 40 in 1957-58. But this season six bowlers each took 40 wickets or more, and that has happened only once since the war: there were seven in 1948-49. There was, this season, no allrounder with A. W. Roberts’s habit of coming in the first two or three players in each list of averages. The most successful was A. R. Mac Gibbon (Old Collegians), who was thirteenth in the batting and seventh in the bowling. The St. Albans player, T. L. Jones, set a post-war record with his 70 wickets, and it is a total which has been exceeded only three times since district cricket began in 1905. The averages for the leading players are:—

Most catches in the field were taken by G. N. Gearry (W-U), 13. S C Guillen (StA) 11. N. Todd (StA) 10. B. Irving (LP) 10, and G. Perry (OC) 10. Old Collegians took most catches in the field—66. The leading wicket-keeper was G. McAulay (R). He took 17 catches and made two stumpings for a total of 19. Others with good totals were J. England (OC) with 16 catches and a stumping, E. R. Morrts (W-U), who had 13 catches and three stumpings, and N. L. Jones (StA), who in seven matches took 11 catches and made four stumpings.

batting (Qualification: 5 or innings, average 15 more) Inn NO HS Agg Av R. T. Hunt (OC) 10 0 137 467 46.70 M. J. Bear (E) 10 2 68* 366 45.75 A. Harrison (LP) 5 2 36 116 38.67 M. E. Chapple (LP) Hartlarfd (S) 12 1 137 420 38.18 I. 11 2 85 534 35.6 A. Duckmanton (LP) 15 3 78 427 35.58 G. Royfee (LP) 17 2 104 513 34.20 A. T. Bishop (OC) 16 1 120 504 33.60 J. B. Morris (W-U) 8 1 124* 229 32.71 B. A. Bolton (OB) 11 1 63* 326 32.60 K. Thomson 32.56 (S) 15 1 74 456 D. Woods (LP) 17 2 137* 465 31.00 P. G. Harris 548 30.44 (StA) 18 0 88 MacGitbon 408 29.14 (OC) 14 0 114 w. Hadlee 320 22.09 (OB) 13 2 91 s. Guillen 388 27.71 (StA) 16 2 75* D. Shepherd 101 218 27.25 (OB) 8 0 L. Glanville 26.83 (E) 15 3 43* 322 J. G. Leggat 26.75 (OB) 8 0 72 214 M. B. Poore 26.50 (StA) 17 5 68 318 B. G. Hadlee 26.40 (OB) 6 1 64 132 D. Hill (OB) 11 0 96 281 25.54 J. Grocott 433 25.47 (E) 17 0 71 B. Haworth 24.47 (E) 17 2 64 367

H. Miller 43 95 23.75 (W-U) 5 1 G. Gearry (W-U) 16 0 75 364 22.75 W. Muncaster (R) 17 1 65 346 21.42 J. Saunders (LP) 10 3 55* 150 21.42 D. Gallop (S) 16 4 49* 247 20.58 B. Irving (LP) 13 3 69 204 20.40 G. Dowling (W-U) 14 0 65 283 20.21 G. Alabaster (E) 14 0 49 282 20.14 J. England (OC) 11 0 42 220 20.00 D. Wilson <S) 9 0 1C2 173 19.22 R. Motz (R) 14 2 56 229 19.08 A. Rapley (S) 16 3 82 247 19.00 T. Gibson (OC) 15 8 24 133 19.00 R. Hunter (W-U) 5 0 50 94 18.80 C. Snook (OB) 13 1 64 219 18.25 P. Oakes (E) 6 1 42* 90 18.00 G. Barrett (R) 20 2 49 322 17.88

D. O’Malley 17.22 (R) 9 0 40 155 J. Kiddey (R) 16 2 56 234 16.62 B. Salt <S) 14 R. J. West 1 48 215 16.54 (OB) 18 1 41 246 16.40 J. Capstick 231 15.40 (E) 15 0 68 C. Smart (E) 15 P. Morris 1 41 215 15.36 (W-U) 6 0 45 90 15.00 • Denotes not out. BOWLING Qualification: 10 wickets O. M. R W. Av D. Beuth 6.07 (W-U) 56.2 25 85 14 C. Snook 9.76 (OB) 210.2 80 420 43 M. Beban 11.51 (W-U) 206.1 76 380 33 C. Hazeldine 11.62 (E) 135.3 D. McKendry (LP) 170.5 41 279 24 68 345 29 11.89 J. Kiddey 12.04 (R) 309 115 838 5,3 A. R. MacGibbon (OC) 239.4 68 553 44 12.11 A. Taylor 12.36 (StA) 70.2 26 173 14 G. Perry (OC) 185.5 53 466 35 13.32 C. R. Nicholson (S) 235.5 R. Prouting (LP) 198.5 56 676 48 14.08 60 463 31 14.94 T.L. Jones (StA) 427.4 139 1072 70 15.32 R. C. Motz (R) 215.1 51 574 37 15.51 G. K. Austin (W-U) 183.4 59 354 22 16.09 A. Duckmanton (LP) 179.1 48 445 27 16.48 B. Carpenter (OC) 169.3 38 462 28 16.50 B. Bolton (OB) 187 38 517 51 16.68 B. Irving (LP) 208.2 54 458 27 16.96 G. Alabaster (E) 284.1 100 684 40 17.10 R. Cole (E) 217.5 52 599 35 17.11 W. Bell (R) 178 A. Timpson 32 528 29 18.21 (W-U) 92.5 19 202 11 18.36 D. J. Reid (OB) 226.2 68 551 30 18.37 J. Dawson (OC) 171.4 60 448 ' 24 18.67 J. Saunders (OC) 139.2 69 246 13 18.92 M. Chapple (LP) 149 45 284 15 18.93 T. Gibson (OC) 113.3 29 350 18 19.44 C. Smart (E) 210 P. Small 79 467 24 19.46 (OB) 221.3 62 454 23 19.69 M. Shardlow (StA) 73.4 18 215 10 21.50 D. Gallop (S) 220.4 33 718 33 21.75 M. Poore (StA) 221 89 479 22 21.77 M. Dunne (W-U) 97 30 264 12 22.00 I. Hartland (S) 83 25 234 10 23.40 A. Rapley <S) 262 75 640 26 24.61 I. Sinclair (R) 165.2 47 380 15 25.33 J. Harliwich (S) 202 68 480 16 30.00 S. C. Guillen (StA) 176 55 456 14 32.56 FIELDING