Little play in suburbs

Press, 5 November 1979, Page 21

Little play in suburbs

Two same! were abandoned • ittout play because oi rain or. ne opening da.' of the third ound oi tae Christchurch Subrban Cricket Associations enior competition. The match between Hornbx •.nd Sumner at Templeton was bandoned before 1 p.m. and the match between Upper Rlcarton and Wooiston Working Ten’s Club was finally abanoned at 3 p.m. At Boon Hay the home side •on the toss and sent Merivale'apar.ui in to bat. After a late itart Xook Ebert and Greg 'lander opened the innings and. onsidering the conditions. batted well. Bowling for Boon Hay Jim Bennie and Tony Pugh used the conditions intelligently Heavy rain set in and play was ibandoned at 3 p.m., with Merivale-Papanui 31 for one. After losing 75min of play at the start of the day the Southern Districts game with Harewood at Beckenham Park carried through to stumps without further interruption. Being sent in to bat on a damp wicket did not help Harewood s cause; the first wicket fell at 12 runs and by tea the fifth wicket had fallen for 25. In their opening spell Gary Baxter and Karl Slave between *hem bowled 15 overs for only me runs. Alan Gibson then

came on to bowl and e’a’med a wicket m his fii>i o\er lie continued to bowl well and finia* ed the da? with three for 12. Andrew Garters, agea 16. a leit-arin medium-pacer, took two tor 20 and Tim O Loughlin two for II The bowlers* were well supported by some good fielding The returns from the outfie.d were consistently over the stumps. Harewood declared its innings closed at 81 for eight and then proceeded to capture two South ern Districts wickets for only 18 runs. Graham Gadsby had taken both for five runs AU other grades were can celled because of the weather and cround conditions. Results: Senior A Merivale-Papanut 31/1 met Boon Hay Umpires; Measra C. Stone and S. Gray Upper Riccarton met Wool st on W.M C. play abandoned with no ball bowled*. Umpires Messrs D. Gordon and K. Haworth. Hornby met Sumner «play abandoned with no ball bowled*. Umpires. Messrs G. Ellis and N. Clark. Harewood 81'8 declared »!. Ward 25; A Gibson 3/12, T. O’Loughlin 2/11, A. Garters 2/20) met Southern Districts 18,2 G. Gadsby 2/51.