Hight king-hitter

Press, 17 January 1986, Page 19

Hight king-hitter

Sixes played an entertaining, and crucial, part in High School Old Boys’ slender Trusteebank Cup senior cricket win over East-Shir-ley at Burwood Park last Saturday. Seven times the ball flew over the boundary in the match, twice from the bat of Old Boys batsmen and five times from the booming blade of the East-Shir-ley captain, Colin Hight. The first six came from the opening ball of the match, speared over the third man boundary by the Old Boys player, Andrew Sloane, who then had the

misfortune to misread a dipping inswinger from the East-Shirley medium-pacer, Steve Daly, and be bowled by the next ball. The second six was on the last ball of the innings, by Old Boys’ top scorer, Ross Bayliss, and its importance cannot be overestimated, given that Old Boys’ eventual winning margin was just three runs. The five sixes hit by Hight — almost all soaring well over the mid-wicket boundary — helped carry his score to 99 before being caught a few paces in from the line at wide long on,

from the tbird-to-last ball of the match, with five runs needed for victory.

Those blows lifted Hight’s tally of sixes this season to nine, one more than Sydenham’s big-hitting opening batsman, Wayne Higgins, who also hit five in his firstround century against Riccarton. Two Lancaster Park players, Wayne Wilson and Mark Chamberlain, have hit six sixes. Wilson has hit his for the Lancaster Park B team, while Chamberlain has split his between Park A and B, four for the A team.