129-RUN WIN

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 17

129-RUN WIN

Auckland Out For 86 •‘The Preu" Special Service Christchurch Boys’ High School defeated Auckland Grammar by 129 runs in their annual cricket match yesterday. Auckland, in the first innings, boosted its overnight score to 200, chiefly through the efforts of D. Appleby (48) and W. Martin (31), avoiding the follow-on and leaving Christchurch nine runs ahead. The Christchurch batsmen, in their second innings, threw the bat at almost everything in an endeavour to score runs quickly. This they did as K. Squire and G. Smith shared in an 80-run partnership, allowing the team to declare at 125 for four. Auckland was left 175 min, utes to score 216 runs, but immediately met trouble, losing three wickets before tea, two from balls which kept low from 1. Taylor. The collapse continued as R. Hadlee bowled mainly short of a length while the batsmen tried to hook him. Seven wickets fell for onlv 33 runs. Martin and T. Noble resisted well and scored a face-saving partnership of 50 runs, taking the score to 83. The partnership dissolved when Smith took a fantastic return catch off Martin, and Auckland was soon all out for

Scores: Christchurch B.H.S. 290 and 125/4 dec. (K. Squire 46, G. Smith 50 not out), Auckland Grammar 200 (D Appleby 48, T. Hill 46; Smith 2/3, Taylor 2/36, Hadlee 2/60, Calder 2/65) and 86 (Hadlee 4/23, Taylor 3/21, Calder 2/12).