Tour averages

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33418, 27 December 1973, Page 18

Tour averages

(N.Z P.A. Staff Correspondent i MELBOURNE. The New Zealand wicket-keeper K. F. Wadsworth, on the basis of one match played on the tour so far, heads the New Zealand cricket team’s batting averages after four first-class matches. Wadsworth, unfit from the after-effects of mumps for the first three matches, returned to play against South Australia and scored 50 not out in the first innings and 25 in ] the second. This gives Wadsworth an aggregate and average of 75. TOP .SCORER M. J. F. Shrimpton. who has scored two centuries on; the tour, is second in the] averages, with 60, and easily] heads the aggregates, on 360, ] more than 100 ahead nf.) M. i Parker.

: The bowling averages are headed by B. L. Cairns, whose six wickets in the l South Australia match boosted his total to 11, at a cost of 23 runs each. The chief wicket-taker has ben D. R. Hadlee, with 13, BATTING

Ins N.O. H.l 5. Ag. Av. Wadsworth 1 50 Shrimpton 8 2 106 360 60 Coney 4 1 64 103 34.3 Parker 8 130 223 27.87 Congdon - 113 219 R. Hadlee - 49 126 25.2 Hastings - 92 194 24.25 Morrison 6 - 51 130 21.66 Alabaster 9 - 28 40 20 Turner • 1 -> 18.3 D. Hadlee - 1 34’ 77 12*8 Campbell 6 2 20 48 12 O’Sullivan 6 2 16’ 47 11.75 Cairns 1 29 Andrews 3 - 16 21 7 BOWLING o M R W Av. Cairns 69 11 253 1! *>•' Shrimpton .30.5 2 131 5 26.2 Andrews .38 3 196 7 28 D. Hadlee 106.5 5 481 13 .37 Alabaster 18.4 2 4 2 R. Hadlee 83 6 .3. 3 9 .39.2 O’Sullivan 79 15 280 6 46.6 Also bowled: Congdon, 20 90, 0; Parker. 0 «. 0. 10, 0.