N.Z. cricketer’s success

Press, 18 June 1982, Page 24

N.Z. cricketer’s success

Richard Leggat, the Old Collegians leg-spinner who, with David Stead, bowled out Northern Districts at Lancaster Park in 1980-81 (eight wickets each), is getting eight or nine overs an innings for Maidenhead in the Thames Valley League in England. This is the league in which the promising Otago batsman, Richard Hoskin, also plays. This work rate as a bowler is in excess of the demands made of him in Christchurch last season. ■ In 12 senior matches he bowled only 52 overs; he had 18 in his two appearances for Canterbury. The Maidenhead captain evi-

dently prefers mediumpace. The news of Leggat’s batting is good, however. In a letter to the chairman of the Canterbury Cricket Association’s management committee (Mr Alby Duckmanton), Leggat reported that he had scored about 500 runs in 12 innings and was top of the. averages for his Maidenhead team. Leggat says that the pitches he has played on are of very good quality. They tended to be slow, he said, and a trifle low. But they were flat and gave an even bounce, which made batting more enjoyable.