Twilight cricket

Press, 30 November 1982, Page 6

Twilight cricket

East-Shirley, a club which is particularly adept at performing well m cricket competitions which require less than 11 players in a team, has taken a narrow lead after two rounds of “The Press” twilight cricket tournament. ■ Earlier this month East again won an annual six-a-side event. Last evening it convincingly beat High School Old Boys to take up the front-running in the twilight contest, which is for teams of nine-a-side. Adding further lustre to East's success, its all-rounder, Graham Pulley, won the Lion Breweries “player of the week” award for his three wickets and 21 runs. Robert McKay was to the forefront of East’s batting with 38 retired. East has 30 points, one more than Lancaster Park.- which, in turn, is one ahead of St Albans. Although Park did not attain its customary prolific total, it still had more than 40 runs in hand over Riccarton. Garry Straw’s feat of taking three for 10 for Riccarton earned him the Canterbury Sports Depot “personality of the week” prize. St Albans accounted for Supporters, with Andrew Arnold having a useful double, and Paul Langrope (39 retired) led a strong Country batting spree against Suburban. In the other match Burnside-West had 26 runs to spare over Sydenham. Bridget Legg was the women's “player of the week” in making 35 retired and taking two cheap wickets for the leading side, St Albans, against Merivale-Papa-nui. A brave 35 retired by Norma Thompson for Merivale won for her the "personality of the week” award. Depth in batting paved the way for Riccarton to convincingly beat Lancaster Park, with Donna Avery and Vivian Cowles retiring for their respective

teams. Points Men: East 30, Park 29, St Albans 28. Country 22, Old Boys 21, Riccarton 21, Burnside-West 18, Sydenham 15, Supporters 13. Suburban 7, Marist 6. Suburban and Marist have had byes. Women: St Albans 26. Park 20. Riccarton 15, Merivale 9, Sydenham 4. Riccarton and Sydenham have had-byes. MEN Lancaster Park 109 (M. Smith 26. S. Cameron 26 n. 0.; G. Straw 3/10, C. O’Malley 3/25. W. Spanjer 2/23) beat Riccarton 62 (K. Andrews 3/9, K. Chambers 3/ 17). Burnside-West 127/7 (K. Mitchell 36 ret. C. Marks 24, R. Alpin 23, S. Hall 22; G. Gardiner 2/14. R. Palenski 2/27) beat , Sydenham 101/4 (P. Kennedy 35 ret, W. Higgins 24 n.o). Country 173/5 (P. Langrope 39 ret., S. Reardon 35 ret., J. Shipley 27, B. Brice 24) beat Suburban 111/7 (O. Southen 35 ret., R. Steele 20; R. Masefield 3/29, C. Hight 2/15). East-Shirley 140/6 (R. McKay 38 ret., A. Gray 29 n. 0., D. D’Oliveira 23, G. Pulley 21; R. Bayliss 2/15) beat Old Boys 70 (M. Mowat 21; Pulley 3/19, G. Hooper 2/10, S. Booth 2/18). St Albans 133/4 (J, Larter 36 ret., R. King 26, J. Sprott 26 n 0.. A. Arnold 20 n. 0.; R. Kinsey 2/29) beat Supporters 114 (D. Jury 26, R. Walker 23 n. 0.; Arnold 2/11). Marist bye. WOMEN Riccarton 175/7 (D. Avery 35 ret.. N. Sherriff 32. S. Harris 32 n. 0.. K. Gunn 25; D. Ford 3/38) beat Lancaster Park 87/4 (V. Cowles 35 ret.). St Albans 121/4 (C. Campbell 36 ret., B. Legg 35 ret: P Tuitaupe 2/23) beat MerivalePapanui 75/7 (N. Thompson 35 ret; Legg 2/11. E. Wilson 2 19. Campbell 2.23). Sydenham bye.