Cricket Youth WEEKLY REVIEW

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33095, 9 December 1972, Page 21

Cricket Youth WEEKLY REVIEW

Darryl King, the St Albans batsman, has been selected as captain of the Canterbury schoolboy’s cricket team in the South Island tournament at Rangiora from January 15 to 19. After an extensive set of trials and representative fixtures with other districts, the following 12 players for the tournament were chosen by the selectors (Messrs P. Guerin and J. G. Grigg).

King (captain), Andrew Guillen (St 'Albans, vicecaptain), Bryce Nicholson (Bumside-West University), Bruce Cooper (Hornby), Glen Boyle, David Gillespie (Lancaster Park), David Kerr (St Albans), Vaughan Brown (Sydenham), Kevin Pitcher (New Brighton), Richard Leggat (Old Collegians), Joseph Leota (Cathedral Grammar), Keith Moorfield (East Shirley). The only changes from the provisional team which played in several representative matches in the last month were Moorfield and Leota, who replace Shane Archer (Old Collegians) and David Cornwell (MerivalePapanui).

A tall gangly lad, Leota, will probably open the bowling with Gillespie. After the two pace bowlers, there is a balanced attack, Pitcher with his medium cutters, the offspin of Leggat and Cooper,

and the accurate leg-spinner, Boyle, who can bowl a very good googly. Last Sunday, Canterbury met a North Canterbury schoolboys’ XI at Hagley before a pleasing crowd. The Canterbury batsmen showed a refreshing approach—a far cry from their efforts in previous matches—and declared at 203 for five wickets after 135 minutes. King was dismissed in the first over, but Pitcher and Kerr carried the total to 85. Pitcher for 38 and Kerr (54) were both dismissed shortly before lunch.

After the break, Guillen, Leggat and Brown (not out) continued to score briskly, all three reaching the thirties. North Canterbury fielded very well, but although seven bowlers were used, success was elusive.

Canterbury was in command when its opponents batted and dismissed North Canterbury for 102 compiled in 125 minutes. The captain, A. Devlin, an attractive lefthanded batsman who represented the South Island last year, held his team together and finished with 43 not out. Gillespie had the best return of the Canterbury bowlers taking three for 14 off six overs. The other wickets were evenly distributed. Another trial match for

the Canterbury team recently was against last year’s representative team. Scores were:—Former schoolboys’ 164/5 (Martin Nicholson 55 retired, Paul Findlay 55 retired; Brown 3/32), Present schoolboys’ 59 and 72/7 (Findlay 4/9, Justin Boyle 3/11, Anthony Brikeaars 3/12). * # $

Rain during the week prevented any play in the Junior Advisory Board’s Saturday morning competitions.

While the rain came as a relief to many gardeners, it was not welcomed by 11 members of the East Shirley D team who were ready to gain an outright win against Mairehau-Marist in a B grade match at Shirley. On the first day the combined team, after losing its first wicket at 31, was bundled out for 56. The only resistance was from Nicky Steele, who contributed an aggressive and purposeful 32. Ross Falloon, with his medium-pace off-cutters, destroyed the batting and finished with the terrific figures of six wickets for two runs off four overs.

East showed the inadequacies of the Marist attack when it batted, the opening pair, Greg Andrell and Alan South, scoring a mammoth 164 without loss.

A Canterbury triallist, Andrell’s innings contained some very elegant and powerful strokes. He was unbeaten on 67 and the hardhitting South on 83. The medium-pace bowler, A. Bierfield, was the only bowler to present the East pair with any problems.