Between Overs

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 15

Between Overs

• St. Albans was handi- ; capped in its effort to beat ; Sydenham by an injury : sustained by A. R. Tay- : lor early in the afternoon, t Taylor pulled a muscle in : a leg ten he slipped on • the treacherous turf and ; he could bowl only three ; overs. ?¥ « ¥ I The outstanding bats- ; tnan of the season in • ' Christchurch is not in the ?- senior competition: he is • in the Riccarton team in

the president’s grade. F. F. Dawson. a former Canterbury batsman, now has an average of 182. He started the season by making 104. and since then has scored 22 not out, 118 not out, 18. and 102 not out. Dawson is a hard-working if unspectacular administrator and his success wit be a popular one.

The enthusiasm that P. G. Coman (East Shirley) puts into his cricket was very much in evidence at Burwood Park on Saturday. In Old Boys' second innings, when they required only 35 runs for victory. Coman chased the ball as keenly as though the match was at stake, twice shattered the stumps with his returns, and held an outstanding catch m the slips. * * * Much of the credit for Christchurch Boys' High School's victory over St. Albans in the second grade A went to A. Hounsell, who took seven for 28 in a fine sustained spell of hostile bowling. St. Albans needed 178 to win the match, and was 50 for none at one stage. But Hounsell kept plugging away, and he bowled unchanged throughout the innings, a spell of 24 overs.

Although he was ; troubled by the bowling ; of D. H. Hicks in the ; early part of his innings, 2 1.. M. Stevenson (East- 2 Shirley) played a deter- 2 mined and watchful inn- 2 ings against Old Boys. In ■ the first innings, he was a ; little too venturesome ; against the slow bowlers 2 but used a little more dis- 2 cretion when scoring his j 31 in the second innings. 2 ¥ ¥ » : A remarkable bowling 2 performance was achieved ■ by M. C. Stonyer for • Marist in its second grade ; B match against Old Col- ; legians. He bowled ; throughout the innings 2 and took eight tor 73 in 2 a match his side won only 2 by 12 runs on the first 2 innings. Stonyers long ■ spell began on the first ; day, but he was in his ; thirty-sixth over when 2 the innings ended 2 ¥ ¥ ¥ : By no means the least ; effective of the St Albans 2 bowlers against Syden- 2 ham's second innings was 2 S. C. Guillen who until ; tea had been wicket- ; keeping. Bowling med- ; ium-paced cutters, Guillen ; gamed some lift from the 2 sodden pitch and took the 2 wicket of W. Thomson 2 with a ball, delivered with • a round arm action, which ; moved sharply off the ; pitch. 2