Central outbatted by Wgtn
PA Wellington Batting first, Wellington set a good target of 222 runs in its first Shell Cup cricket match against Central Districts on Saturday, and by using a restrictive bowling line-up, kept Central 15 runs from its total by the end of play. Wellington started strongly in the one-day game, largely due to the batting of captain Robert Vance, who scored 57 runs. Thirty of those runs included boundaries, one a six. Vance was caught on the boundary after a high full toss from Paul
Unwin which he swatted to mid-wicket. Bruce Edgar tried to keep up the team’s pace without Vance, but was out only 18 runs later, a victim of an unusual stumping. Central’s batting was slow in comparison to Wellington’s, but once settled in, lifted the scoring rate to a respectable level. The loss of the captain, lan Snook, with the total at 37, dropped the run rate again, but by the thirteenth over Central had scored its half century, faster than Wellington. With no strong batsmen
to hold up the Central innings, the run rate dropped to a level almost impossible to recoup. WELLINGTON R. Vance c Gill b Unwin 57 B. Edgar std Blain c Duff 49 G. Burnett c Duff b Martin 56 T. Ritchie run out 6 G. Larsen lbw G. Robertson 16 E. McSweeney not out . . 18 S. Macguiness c Blain b G. Robertson 0 G. Cederwall not out ... 5 Extras (Ib9 w6) 15 Total (for 6 wkts) 222 Fall: 106, 124, 139, 189, 204, 210. Bowling.— G. Robertson 10, 0, 40, 2 (iw); S. Gill 10. 1, 40, 0; D. Stirling 3,0, 21, 0 (Iw); P. Unwin 9,0, 30, 1 (3w); W. Martin 10, 0, 43, 1 (Iw); S. Duff 6,0, 29, 1; s. Robertson 2,0, 10. 0.
CENTRAL DISTRICTS I. Snook lbw Cederwall. . 9 S. Robertson c McSweeney b Macguiness 30 M. Greatbatch c Millmow b Williams 24 R. Harden run out 58 S. Gill b Holland 3 T. Blain not out 45 G. Robertson c Millmow b Holland 2 D. Stirling std McSweeney b Holland 9 T. Martin b Larsen .... 4 S. Duff not out 1 Extras (w6, b 3, IblO, nb3) 22 Total (for 8 wkts) 207 Fall: 37, 62, 87, 96, 170, 173, 200, 205. Bowling.— J. Millmow 6,1, 23, 0 (Inb, 3w); G. Cederwall 6, 1, 29, 1 (2nb, Iw); G. Larsen 8, 0, 25, 1; S. Macguiness 10, 1, 29, 1; B. Williams 10. 0. 38. 1: B. Holland 10, 1, 50, 3 (2w).
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