ROUGH GAME
Cricket is normally a game free of the ill-feeling generated in many other sports but at times in the match between Riccarton and Old Boys on Hagley 1 it looked as though the venue for the fixture should have been Hadison Square Gardens. Almost every player from each team agreed that they had never played in a game causing so much friction between players. The trouble started when a delivery from D. W. Stead, the Riccarton leg-spinner, clipped the leg stump but because the umpire at the bowler’s end was unsighted, the batsman, W. M. Duncan, was ruled not out.
Later, when G. R. McAulay was batting for Riccarton he was tripped when attempting a run on an over-throw by the Old Boys bowler. W. R. Barberel, and was given out, run out.
However, the decision was over-ruled by Mr B. Dennison, the umpire at the bowler’s end, who called dead-ball for unfair play.
To add to the unpleasantness of the situation the language used by most of the players in the heated exchanges of comments was degrading to the game of cricket.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 15
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185ROUGH GAME Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 15
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