EQUALS BEST
Taber’s 12 Wickets (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ADELAIDE. | The New South Wales captain, B. Taber, equalled the world wicket-keeping record for dismissals in a first-class match when he took his twelfth wicket at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. Taber’s feat equalled that lof E. H. Pooley for Surrey [against Sussex at the Oval in ' 1868 and D. Tallon for Queens- ! land against New South Wales jin Sydney in 1938-39. i However, his brilliant [wicket-keeping failed to give ■his side victory, South Australia beating New South Wales by three wickets in a Sheffield Shield match. South Australia began the last day needing 134 runs to win outright with eight wickets in hand, but was [struggling until E. Freeman land B. Jarman became asso'elated in a seventh-wicket [partnership. [ Freeman was finally run lout for 67 when South Australia needed only two runs to win, but Jarman immediately clinched the match with a boundary. In the first innings, Taber caught six and stumped one and in the second innings, he caught three and stumped two. | Scores: South Australia 295 land 137/7. New South Wales 184 and 295.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 20
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