Cricket Cricket leaders maintain strong position

Press, 4 December 1978, Page 20

Cricket Cricket leaders maintain strong position

Sumner, the leader of the : senior suburban cricket competition, finished in a strong' position against Woolston W.M.C. on Saturday, in spile of indifferent batting earlier in the day. After a late start, as occurred in most other matches Sumner’s first three batsmen, Peter Sargison, Roger Campbell and Tony McKendry, paved the way for a good total but the middle and' lower order batsmen let Ihe side down.

The Woolston fielding was sharp and keen while its bowling was always accurate and testing, Norm Sloan being the most impressive, i Having been bowled out for 171, Sumner fought back' well to have Woolston 55 for six at stumps.

! After being sent in to bat, j Waitham pul up the credit'able total of 186 for six at i slumps against Hoon Hay W.M.C. Ewan Wright, Steve Holden and Mike Eddington all produced useful scores, while Jim Bennie was Hoon Hay’s leading wicket-taker. Hornby made 85 for one against Upper Riccarton at Riccarton Domain, to which Barry F urness contributed 43.! At Edgar Mclntosh Park, Merivale-Papanui made 99' for seven in the restricted batting time it had against Belfast. The former representative suburban player, Stan Woolliscroft, finished with the impressive figures of five, for 26 off 14 overs. SENIOR A ' Merivale-Papanui 99/7 (N.i Ebert 29, W. Shirlow 22, J.' i Yates 21; S. Wolliscrpft 5/26, PJ ; Steers 2/38> met Belfast. I waitham 186/6 (E. Wright 42, [ S. Holden 38, M. Eddington 34, R. Taylor 27: J. Bennie; 3/45. T. I Pugh 2/40) met H.H.’W.M.C. Sumner 171 iR. Campbell 25, P. Sargisson 40; D. Quested 2/39. N. Sloan 4/37; P. Muir 2/19) met W.W.M.C. 55/6 (A. Hounsell 4/17, J.. Higginson 2/24>. Hornby 85/1 iB. Furness 43.; D. Hassett 30 n. 0.) met Upper: Riccarton. SENIOR B I P .W.M.C. 114/7 met Becken-j ham. C.W.M.C. 74/5 met Burnside-' w.u. Harewood 176/5 (J. Golding 83) met Aranui. Heathcote 112 met New Bright ton 11/1. JUNIOR I I Richmond 33/3 met H.H.W.M.C.I Waltham 168/7 dec. (M. Van-

i non 5/59> met Beckenham 16/0. Shirley 87 met Sumner 56/2. Merivale-Papanui 177 (M. I Willis sb, J. smith 511 met ! WAV.M.C. 10/2. THIRD A H.HAV.M.C. drew with Addington mo play). P. 0.5.8. 2ub/2 (R. McKenzie 100 not out. K. Pettet 78 not out. S. McLaughlan 58) beat C.T.W.A. 53. United drew with BurnsideVV.U. (no play). Belfast drew with R.W.M.C. (no play). Addington beat H.HAV.M.C. by I default. Air N.Z. beat WAV.M.C. bi default. THIRD B Burnside-W.U. 78/4 beat Beckenham 76 (D. Youll 6/36). C.W.M.C. 78 (S. Wilson 7/30) drew with Hornby 53/2. Merivale-Papanui 125/4 <G. Knight 65) drew with New Brighton 50/2. Air N.Z. drew with VV.W.M.C., (no play). , Harewood drew with Taxes (no play). P.W.M.C drew with Upper Ric carton (no play). THIRD C H.HAV.M.C. 63/3 beat Waltham 41 (A. Faafoi 5/14). Burnside-W.U. beat H.R.L.C. by default. WAV.M.C. 85/2 beat S.A.S 74 (P. Beyers 5/37). Merivale-Papanui 198/4 iW. Collins 82) beat Shirley-Richmond 37. Halswell 134/5 beat New Brighton 131. Belfast drew with Stars (no I play). THIRD D I Grosvenor 149 (J. Shaw 62)' beat W.W.M.C. 81 (E. Burton 5/48). Upper Riccarton 61/1 dec. beat Addington 59 (fe. Rowe 5/24). Belfast 122/3 <D. Straker 51. not out) beat New Brighton 117. Merivale-Papanui 139/6 beat; Harewood 133/8 (R. Pitcher 6/46). Templeton drew with P.I.C.C. i tno play). Heathcote 129 drew with Sumner 44/2. THIRD E Aranui 115 drew with C.W.M.C. 30/0. Lyttelton 92 drew with New Sumner 177 drew with WAV.M.C. 110/1 (A. Breen 54 not out. W. Moore 50 not out). Merivale-Papanui 60/1 beat P.I.C.C. iR. Veitch 5/36 including hat-trick >. R.W.M.C. drew with Harewood ! (no play). THIRD F Beckenham 86/4 beat Burt 84 ' (G. Jones 6/20. T. Keenan 4/31 including hat-trick). New Brighton 58/1 beat Shirlev 17 (M. Plato 6/5 including hat-trick) and 98 <M. Plato 5/37) on the first innings, rr r , Prebbleton drew with C.U.F .C. ino play). Halswell 109/3 beat Harewood 1 92. I Sunnyside drew with R.W.M.C. mo play).