COLLINGE TAKES 8 AUCKLAND WICKETS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 15

COLLINGE TAKES 8 AUCKLAND WICKETS

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. B. W. Sinclair, the New Zealand cricket captain, and R. O. Collinge, the New Zealand fast-medium bowler, showed that they were ready for the coming tests against the Indians by their performances for Wellington against Auckland on the second day of the Plunket Shield match at Eden Park yesterday.

Collinge took eight wickets for 64 in the Auckland first innings of 333 and Sinclair scored an excellent 80 in the Wellington first innings of 230 for nine wickets.

D. O. Neely, the Wellington captain, declared his side’s innings closed at that stumps score, so there is the prospect of an exciting finish tomorrow.

Collinge collected the last three of his victims, all bowled, when the Auckland first innings ended quietly during the first hour of play.

His figures in the mroning were nine overs, seven maidens, four runs and three wickets. None of the Auckland batsmen was happy against Collinge’s speed and the runs came so slowly that the last hour of the innings brought only 26. AUCKLAND First Innings J. T. Sparling c Therkelson b Coles . 40 R. J. Kasper c Hosking, b Haskell 58 D. Hill c Therkelson b Collinge 2 M. G. Burgess c and b Collinge 10 R. W Morgan c Murray b Collinge . 72 J. G. Kemp c Sinclair b Collinge 103

G. E. Vivian b Collinge .. 9 R. S. Cunis b Collinge .. 1 R. E. Sutton b Collinge .. 8 H. J. Howarth not out .. 15 R. I. Harford b Collinge .. 1 Extras (leg-bye 1, noballs 13) 14 Total .333 Fall of wickets: one for 106, two for 106, three for 111, four for 118, five for 292, six for 299, seven for 307, eight for 308, nine for 324.

First Innings B. A. Murray c Morgan b Howarth .16 R. E. Redmond st Harford b Sparling 26 P. T. Barton hit wicket b Sparling . 40 B. W. Sinclair, b Sutton . 80 J. F. Morrison c and b Sparling . 4 D. O. Neely, b Sparling .. 14 I J. Therkleson, b Cunis .. 21 W. J. Haskell run out .. o R. O. Collinge not out .. 21 M. J. Coles lbw b Cunis .. 0 D. Hosking not out .. o Extras (3 byes, 5 legbyes) 8 Total, for nine wickets declared 230 Fall of wickets: one for 29, two for 74, three for 87, four for 91, five for 119, six for 199, seven for 200, eight tor 219, nine for 227.

Bowling 0 M R W R. O. Collinge 37 17 64 8 M. J. Coles 22 5 81 1 W. J. Haskell 33 13 69 1 D. Hosking .. 31 8 70 0 R. E. Redmond 12 5 25 0 J. F. Morrison e 2 10 0 WELLINGTON

Bowling 0 M R W R S. Cunis . . 19 6 34 2 R. E. Sutton 18 5 35 1 H J. Howarth 30 14 36 1 J. T. Sparling 33 13 79 4 G. E. Vivian 12 2 29 0 R. W. Morgan 2 0 9 0