Old Boys Regain Lead With Storming Finish

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30629, 21 December 1964, Page 16

Old Boys Regain Lead With Storming Finish

A storming finish by Old Boys regained them the lead in the senior ? cricket championship on Saturday. Left two hours to score 204, Old F Boys beat East Christchurch-Shirley with four minutes to spare. The previous leader, Sydenham, failed badly and lost to West Christchurch- | University by an innings.

' St. Albans, hold- 1 er of the championship ’ pennant, collapsed i again and lost heavily i to Lancaster Park, ‘ but the two bottom j teams won much credit i for their spirited re- 1 - ] covenes. East-Shirley lost, in the end,' to Old Boys, but a second' innings score of 260 for eight wickets, declared, was ex-: tremely satisfactory. Old Col-, legians did even better. Trailing Riccarton by 104 runs. Old Collegians attacked with such* purpose that the declaration 1 was made at 326 for sevenl wickets; and Riccarton, losingl eight wickets, was on the 1

brink of defeat when time was called. At Hagley Oval, bowlers held command, with the offspin of B. C. Irving (Lancaster Park) and P. A. Sharp (West-University) winning most successes. On the other grounds, the batsmen were in charge. R. C. Bromley, a player in his first senior season, scored 96 for Old Collegians, and in the same inn’ings J. England contributed 179 and A. R. Mac Gibbon a tvery fast 68. B. G. Hadlee -made 76 not out for Old Boys, -J. W. Grocott 56 for East--Shirley. I Competition points are:— lOld Boys 54, Sydenham 46, iWest-University 45, Riccariton 35. St Albans 33, Lancaster Park 30, Old Collegians : 18, East-Shirley 3.