WEST INDIES TOUR
Batsmen Kept Quiet (N.Z.P_A.-Reut«r—Copyright) LONDON. May 30 Somerset struggled to make MS in 5J hours against the West Indies at Bath yesterday. In the final half-hour the tourists replied with 11 for no wicket The main cause of Somerset’s slowness was the off-spin-ner, L. Gibbs, who bowled at an Immaculate length for 21 hours. At one stage he had taken four for 11 in seven overs. Scores: SOMERSET First Innings G. Atkinson, c Griffith, b Gibbs „. . 33 B. Roe. c Allan, b Worrell 50 R Virgin, b Gibbs 2 W. E. Alley, c Sobers, b Gibbs ..40 P. B. Wight, b Gibb 8 M. Kitchen, run out ~ 12 C. Greetham. b Griffith 28 K. Primer, c Butcher, b Griffith 8 H. Stephenson, b Griffith 0 B. Langford, row. b King 21 F. Rumsey, not out . 0 Extras .. ..71 Total ..205 Bowling: Griffith, 17. «. 15. 3; Sobers. 15. 5. 30. 6; King. 152. 3. 43. 1; Worrell. 37 14. 47. 1: Gibbs. 30. 8. 58. 4 WEST INDIFS First Innings E. McMorris, not out .. 1 C. Hunte, not out .. 8 Extras •• ..2
Total (for no wkt.) II
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30145, 31 May 1963, Page 13
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