A TIME TO REMEMBER
w k The former C’anterJ bury and New Zealand J cricketer, J. G. Leggat, will be interested in the k fact that the botmdark ies at the Adelaide Oval k have been reduced to 75 A yards, for he was in- * volved in an amusing in- ’ cident when the New J Zealand team played at k that ground while homek ward bound from the k 1953-1954 tour of South k Africa. J The New Zealand k team was destined to k spend a trying day in k the field, the heat was k stifling, Leggat was field- * ing at slip, and A. R. ’ Mac Gibbon was at silly 2 mid-on. The batsmen had been at the crease k for some time, and one k of them tickled a ball k down towards the fine k leg boundary. Leggat k glanced inquiringly at 2 Mac Gibbon, and the long 2 fellow looked back a stonily. It must have k been a guilt complex, or k something, that finally A urged Leggat to chase k the ball. The batsmen 2 had run five before the 2 ball was finally returned 2 to the keeper. k in fairness to Leggat, 2 the boundaries then 2 measured 624 feet by ; 414 feet, and it was not . a uncommon for batsmen k to run five.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 13
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