Suburban cricket begins

Press, 11 October 1976, Page 21

Suburban cricket begins

Th* promoted loom, Hoon Hoy Working Mon's Club, por- I termed creditably when the Christchurch Suburban Cricket ' Association's senior competition I began on Saturday Hoon Hay lost two early wick et« after being sent in on aL Damp pitch by Harewood, but eventually reached the respect-!, en.e total of 158. Brian Pawsori • >d . .Stephen Stuart <3o>, and hail Slave i2B), all scoring well. , -surprisingly poor catching tn Harewood—at least a dozen Chance* were dropped—helped Hoon Hay immeasurable and Brian Peate’s figures of eight for >1 were all the more commend I. ih.c in the circumstances. Harewood replied by making I •> without loss at stumps Heatncote’s 172 wa s the high r- total the dav. the major - :■>> ributions coming from DJI Mood' . John Bate <331 and; Neville Clarke 2'i>. The Belfast! laptain Malcolm Roberts, took I’ ’’ 1 of the wickets, and Roger I th or. keeping in his first senior ,oo,c *? ur catcher ! ( was in a healthy posi r • at tor two. at slumps Heathcote will need an earh ( J* eakthrough next week if it i>| io first innings points. Hornby reached 138 in it> £**•* h against Merivale-Papanui. < J ks "nainl> to a steady K 7 frorrj Vck Dierck. Dave McNaughton ■! Inched with six for 21. Dierck batted like a form 11 • cr and his team mates are

I capable of giving, much better support than they did. At stumps Merivale-Papanui was 60 for three and the stage :s set for an interesting second day. Waltham was sent into bat on another damp wicket —Garrick Park—and had no answer to the accurate bowling of Kim Taylor and Dave Quested who both took iour cheap wickets. Replying to Waltham's meagre *.ota! of 48, Woolston Working Men’s Club was 97 for eight at the close. Norm Sloan topscoring with 36 runs. Results:— Senior A • Heathcote. 172 iD. Moodv 57. J Bate 33, Nev. Clark 23; M. Roberts 5/43. G. Rudman 2/22. T. Isitt 2/67>. Belfast. 97/2 <D Stere 140 not out. B. Pearce 26 not out). ' Hoon Hay W.M.C., 150 B Paw I-on 58. S. Stuart 30. K. Siave 28; B. Peate 8/54». Harewood 37/0. | Hornbv. 138 <N. Dierck 67; D. 1 McNaughton 6/21, M. Let 2/40). Merivale-Papanui. 60/3 tK. Smith . >3 t . Waltham. 48 <K. Tavlor 4/12. D. [Quested 4/20). Woolston W.M C , 47/8 N. Sloan 36; G. Reid 3/30. j M Baxter 3/25). Senior B Sumner. 145/7 dec. (J Monk; 55 not out), R.W.M.C. 54 andi V2. Aranui 90 and 30/2, Menyale- ' Papanui 80. Burnside W.l . 60. Riccarton 1139/7 <T. Caldwell 74) Beckenham 165. Belfast 58, I

r Junior . Addington 125, Harewood 105 ’ New Brighton 108. H.H.W.M.C. ; 30/5. 1 P W.M.C. 172/9 .M. Hobson 77), Merivale-Papanui 27/2 ! Shirley 60 i.J. Power 5/13), and J 17/1. W.W.M.C. 80/9 dec. - Sumner 89 and 26/2. Heathcote r 29. • Third A Halswell. 114/7, beat P. 0.5.8.. J 36. W.M.C.. 97/6. beat Riccarton. • 4’ fR Woods 5/22). Beckenham. 104. beat P.W.M.C.. 69 (M. Turner 7/42). New Brighton. 114/7, beat Harewood. 11l iA. Smitheram 6/45>. Waltham, 140 (K. Moore 59 not ’ out), beat W.W.M.C.. 76 (J Quinn 5/13). Third B Riccarton. 55/7, beat Burnside . W.L . 51 (J. Clark 5/23). New Brighton. 86 and 8/0 <R. Knowles 5/34). beat W.M.C., 32 and 57, outright. N.A.C.. 93. drew with Becken- ' ham. 93 (T. Clark 5/31). H H.W.M.C.. 129/7 <P. Griffiths 156) beat Belfast. 104 Merivale-Papanui. 55/1, beat | Hornby. 54. Third C I No play due to wicket shortage. Third D I P.I.C C.. 129. beat C.U.F.C., 32 and 45 (L. Togiason 6/21) out- ■ right. I Sumner . 44. beat Belfast. 39 i.T. i Gilmore 6/15). Addington, 49 iB. Atkinson 16/17). beat Shirley. <35.

I Merivale-Papanui, 64/8, beat [Templeton, 61. Third E R.W.M.C., 86 )R. Glendenning •7/33), beat Cust, 46 (L. Muna . caster 6/12). Harewood beat Lyttelton by 'default. Aranui, 86/4 dec., beat New Brighton, 41. Third F Beckenham, 101. beat R.W.M.C. 177 (L. Wood 6/36). Harewood. 87/9. beat Shirley, 76 )K. Currie 5/20. A. Pope 5/28). Heathcote beat H.R.L.C. by deJ fault. Merivale-Papanui 43, drew with 1 New Brighton, 43. Mercantile Hospital. 164/9 tT. Waters 71 not out), beat C.R.F.C., 123. J C.T.W.A., 75/3. beat Police. 63. ' N.A.C.. 78 (H. Wilson 5/35), i beat Retailers, 58 (A. Falck 8/21). 2 Cricket.—The former England opening batsman Geoff Boycott, si managed to score only 10 runs in an unhappy reunion with the t former Australian opening bowler. Dave Colley, in Sydney. . Boycott was making his first 'appearance in the Sydney A • grade competition for Waverley. 2 Soccer.—The United States’ national soccer team held; (Mexico to a 0-0 draw in their ..qualifying match for the 1978 World Cup in Los Angeles. The i (Mexicans had been heavily favoured to win.