Edwards thrills crowd

Press, 29 December 1980, Page 26

Edwards thrills crowd

PA * Nelson Northern: Districts were 112 for three -.wickets 'at stumps last eviening in the second innings of the Shell Trophy cricket . match at Nelson., v . - 1 Northern lost Its opener, Dennis. Lloyd for 11 ? and Chris Kuggeleijn < followed soon after . for? eight < runs. The other Northern opener, Grant - Gibson was the third batsman out for 31. Northern’s .skipper, Andy Roberts, ahdi Barry. Cooper, were at the crease at stumps in an enterprising: fourthwicket partnership which produced 55 runs.' Cooper,- in particular, was) in good form and was not out 38. Roberts was also starting to hit the ball well .and. was not out

is. ■ ; Central had a lead of 22 runs on the first innings after it made 264 for nine wickets in reply to North-

em’s first innings total of 242 for nine. .. -

The first' innings stars were, the-swashbuckling Central, Districts batsman, Jock Edwards, and Northern’s allrounder, Cliff Dickeson. Edwards top-scored- jin Central’s first innings with an,-'excellent 79, ’ and/-Dick-esdn.took a career-best total of seven wickets .for 79 runs.

Edwards’s knock was the backbone of the Central innings as most-of the other middle and lower-order batsmen struggled to score freely against the Northern slow bowlinprattack of Paul Curtin and. the ;star, of .the match, Dickeson. 1

The left-arm spinner, Dickeson, had much to do with limiting Central's first innings lead to 22. He bowled a massive- 44 overs and shut out Central with 17 maidens as he contained the Central batsmen particularly

in a fine spell of controlled howling just after lunch. ~ . Dickeson’? seven . victims included' Edwards, p, Wayne Hodgson, Andrew Jones, Dennis _ Aberhart and Matthew Toynbee. >Thei. j : Central-openers, Roger Pierce and' Andrew Jones, gave their side an ex* cellent start:tot the first in; nings with a .brisk . 78-run partnership for the first wicket. , t -

Jones ’ and ' Pierce both looked bound for big scores when they resumed their innings yesterday morning. But they added only 11 runs to their,overnight total of 67 before Jones'fell to Dickeson for 38. Pierce followed with the score at 89 when he was bowled by Northern medium nacer Karl Treiber for an identical score of 38. . * j Central took- seven bonus points on the first innings and Northfem'had siXj : 7