CANTERBURY AVERAGES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 7

CANTERBURY AVERAGES

Bolton Heads Both Lists

Recalled to the Canterbury team after the second match, B. A. Bolton, the former New Zealand opening batsman, performed consistently well to head the side’s batting and bowling averages for the 1961-62 Plunket Shield series. His first innings performance of seven -wickets for 23 runs in Canterbury’s final match, against Central Districts at Nelson, was the best bowling analysis returned by a Canterbury player in the series and,his 90 in the Otago match was, until B. F. Hastings’s 149 at Nelson, the highest score. The consistent Sydenham club all-rounder, D. L. Gallop, Who played several stirring innings for Canterbury when the side was in difficulties, easily headed the batting aggregates. His total of 324 runs, scored in nine innings, gave him an average of 36, a figure only slightly inferior to that of Bolton. J. W. Kiddey, whose leftarm bowling rarely faltered throughout Canterbury’s five matches, took most wickets, 20, and was second to Bolton in the bowling averages. After his belated inclusion in the team, Hastings produced the highest shield score of the summer in the Nelson match. Before hits innings of 149, the best score had been B. A. G. Murray’s 133 for Wellington against Central Districts. The batting and bow-ling averages of the Canterbury players were:— BATTING

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d w 2; a «■ < B. A. Bolton 5 0 90 186 37.2 D. L. Gallop 9 0 89 324 36.0 A. G. Duckmanton .. 7 1 69 158 26.33 B. G. Hadlee 9 0 86 202 22 44 A. R. MacGibbon .. 9 0 60 199 22.1 D. Hill ., 9 0 58 176 19.55 K. Thomson 8 1 33 135 19.3 P. Truscott .. 6 0 38 80 13.3 M. B. Poore 6 0 50 77 12.8 J. W. Kiddey 9 4 30* 59 11.8 J. H. M. Dawson .. 6 4 8* 18 9.0 J. E. England 8 1 18 61 8 7 G. G. Coull .. 4 0 17 32 8.0 Also batted: B. F. Hastings 149; I. R. Hartland. 10. • Denotes not out. BOWLING „ O. M. R W. Av B. A. Bolton .. 56.5 18 128 8 16.0 J W. Kiddey .. 217 90 394 20 19.7 A. R. MacGibbon 135 40 266 12 22 16 J H. M. Dawson 115.1 10 339 12 28 25 A G. Duckmanton 108.3 45 22 7 32.1 M B. Poore 63 27 12 3 41.0 D L. Gallop 125 32 255 6 42.5 Also bowled: D. Hill, 10, 4, 21. 0; K. Thomson. 8, 4, 20, 0.