BOTH TEAMS CLAIM WIN
(N.ZPA.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Officials of the M.C.C. will have to sort out a mix-up in a rain-interrupted county championship cricket match which ended
yesterday with both aides claiming different resultsHampshire players left the ground at Bournemouth thinking the match had been abandoned In midafternoon because of per-
sistent rain. But their Glamorgan opponents waited until a lateafternoon inspection of the pitch by the umpires and then claimed victory by default when none of the Hampshire players were there to continue the game. The Hampshire captain. R. Marshall, said: “AU I will say now is that I understood from the umpires, and the opposing captain who was with me at the time, that the match was off.”
The Glamorgan skipper, A. Lewis, said it was the umpires* decision to award his team a win by default "Really we are very sorry about it all,” he added. “But I suppose the laws of cricket must be observed.” The M.C.C. will settle the issue after receiving all reports on the match.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 20
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