LOCK SETS RECORD

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31248, 21 December 1966, Page 22

LOCK SETS RECORD

Most Wickets In Season

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The former English test spin bowler, G. A. R. Lock, set a State record and may have equalled an Australian record when he took four wickets against Queensland for Western Australia in their Sheffield Shield match yesterday. Western Australia, which scored 554 for seven declared in its first innings, dismissed Queensland for 306 and 130 and won by an innings and 118 runs.

Lock took six for 85 in the first innings and four for 58 yesterday to take his total for the season to 47—three more than the Western Australian first-class record he set last season.

He also equalled what is believed to be the record for a shield season—47 wickets, taken by the West Indian, G. S. Sobers, when he played for South Australia in the 1963-64 season.

Lock has one more match against South Australia in Perth.

First limings Victory

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New South Wales beat South Australia on the first innings in their Sheffield Shield cricket match after failing to score 233 runs in 185 minutes for an outright victory.

New South Wales was 205 for eight at stumps. Scores: N.S.W. 381/6 dec. and 205/8 (G. Goffet 60, G. Davies 55 not out; N. Dansie 3/62, Frost 3/55), South Australia 377 and 236. (K. Cunningham 70, Dansie 54; G. Corling 5/44).

Returned Home.— Anne Marie Prior, aged 56, married, who had been missing from her home in Avonside since last Friday, returned home yesterday.