CRICKET.
''HIRST AND I HAIGH CAUSE HAYOC. BT TELECHAPEI—rnEE3 ASSOCIATION— COPTEXGHI • - ■ . ■ London, May ,10. ■, In tho county series of matches Yorkshire scored 356 for eight wickets. against North-, amptonshire,., whose two innings realised 42 (27 and 15). '• ' .' ; 'v ;■/' G.VH. Hirst captured' wickets for 19 runs, and S. Haigh six for 19. . ' ' /Northamptonshire is- a -.very 1 weak. batting team.,: Last season Northamptonshire was fifteonth- on. the; list of first-class .counties, being .belpw everyono but: Derbyshire. ;, Only .two •'wins! ,were 'recorded , ih " tno: season, ' against Hampshire and Derbyshire., 6. H.' Hirst'/ headed the batting averages of Yorkshire with an average of 31.40 for 35 innings,' and was third in the bowling averages with 140 wickets for 15.21; Rhodes being next tojiim with. 141 wickets for 1G.41. Against such • a" strong team"' as' Middlesex, ho took' nine wickets—seven of them clean bowled—for '45 runs.: '- •' , . ,/' ..' .~' / /S. .Haigh was ( first'in the bowling averages, but./'was absent a"good (leal : 'through illness; 1 he' took 78' wickets at 11.51 runs apiece. ■ ' He' was. eighth in .the .batting list, with an average of 13.17. / . , '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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176CRICKET. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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