West Loses Poulton
The West - University Cricket Club will lose its third senior player this year when D. G. Poulton moves to Wellington next month. An assistant branch manager in Christchurch, he has taken a position with a Wellington firm as its administration manager. Poulton will be able to play for West-University for two more matches. He expects to leave Christchurch on February 14 and takes up his new duties on February 17.
Benaud’s 22nd Century fN.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. January 17. The former Australian test captain, R. Benaud, rescued New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Sydney today. He made a fighting 114 not out in 162 minutes, and at stumps New South Wales were 345 for eight. This was Benaud’s second century of the season and the twenty-second of his first-class career. He came to the wicket when half the New South Wales team was out for 177, the test captain, R. B. Simpson, being iismissed for a duck by the I third ball he faced.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30342, 18 January 1964, Page 10
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