Cricket.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 64, 15 March 1902, Page 6 (Supplement)

Cricket.

£By Ye Knight.] I am indebted to Mr. I. Hyams, Treasurer of the Wellington Cricket Association', fox the following notes and averages of the past season: — The opening matches of the season gave promise ©f a more than usually interesting competition, and an alteration in the hoffling of the championship, but unfortunately the promise was not fulfilled, and the second round of the competition was without interest. The attached collective bowling and batting averages of the four teams will show that the uitimatg winners had the best figures in both departments though in neither case are they as good as last year. "Extras" are excluded, and in the bowling figures only those wickets credited to the bowlers are included, "run outs" not being counted. BATTING. Wkts. Runs. Aver. Midland ... 96 1892 19.70 Wellington ... 99 1819 18.37 Phoenix 101 1645 16.28 Old Boya ... 115 1220 10.60 BOWLING. Wkts. Euns. Aver. Midland 107 1275 11.91 Wellington ... 105 1382 13.25 Phoenix ..: ... 89 1605 18.03 Old Boys 79 2277 28. 82 In ba,tting Richardson, with aj* aggregate of 532, beats all previous* records in that line, though his average is second to that of Tuoker— 67.2B—in '97-98. Midlane beats his previous performances both as regards aggregate and average, as also do Quea and Watevs, Quee makes, a tremendous jump from last season, when his aggregate was 25, and his average 3.5.7. Non of the jettier batsmett caAJ for any speoia), 'to'emion,

except, perhaps, Blacklock (Phoenix), Hutchmgs, and Wilson, who have all done well for young players. In Cup bowling Tucker is the best performer, with Ashbolt second. The latter is practically the only bowler to improve on his last year's figures, with, however, a much smaller number of wickets taken. Connell and Upham both have creditable figures, while Hales, who had not been at all successful earlier, came with a rattle in the last match, and just beats Hickey. The latter and Greenfield are the only new bowlers of any promise. The two representative matches were responsible for only two fine bowling performances by Hales and Upham, and consistent batting by Midlane. Richardson, with Tucker in a lesser degree, gave valuable assistance in the batting department. In the "all matches" batting averages there is practically no change from tht positions in the Cup batting, except that the majority of the players did little or no good in that department of the game. In all bowling, however, Upham, whom an anonymous correspondent suggested was picked as a representative player only on reputation, is comforlably top with a considerable improvement on his figures for the past four reasons. Tucker and Hales, who are second and third respectively, just about equal their last year's figures, while Connell, who has taken more wickets than any other bowler, also has creditable figures. Richardson scored three centuries, Midlane two, and Quee one. Richardson's performance is a record for Wellington, the nearest approach to it being Williams's two centuries and two scores of over 90 in 1897-98. Williams and Staples were the most consistent batsmen of the season, they having only once failed to reach double figures. The highest aggregate of the season was 456 by the Wellingtons, and the lowest 63 by the Phoenix. Midlane and Waters put on 119 for the second wicket, and Midlane and Blacklock 140 for the third wicket against the Wellingtons, while Crombie and Richardson put on 102 for the sixth against the Phoenix. Midlane and Waters, Quee and Hickson, Weybourne and Richardson, and Hickson and Richardson put on over 100 foij a wickefc against the Old Boys. As a set-off nine Wellington batsmen made> 29 and 33 against Midland and Phoenix respectively; nine Phoenix made 12 against Midland ; and ten of the same team made 28 against Wellington ; eight Midlands made 17 and 30 against Wellington and Phoenix respectively, and nine Old Boys got 27 against Midland and seven of the same team got 20 against Wellington. Five batsmen scored "spectacles" during the season. Some of the more notable bowling, performances were — Benbow, two for 0 ; Waters, two for 3 ; Hales, three for 8 ; Connell, seven for 22 ; Tucker, seven for 23 ; Stephenson, four for 14 ; Upham, five for Jfid ; Hickey, five for 22 ; Ashbolt, four for 24 ; and Sanderson, six for 44. Tucker did the hat trick against the Wellingtons. Holdsworth and Williams did some fast scoring against the Old Boys, putting on 100 runs in 35 minutes. The following ar» the chief averages for the season : — CUP BATTING.

fcp I* g . . s> •S °>F 2J ? 2 g"S .SFg § ® rf fc Wen M <J Richardson ... 10 2 151. 532 66.50 Midlane ... ' 9 1 146 456 57.00 Quee 8 0 174 351 45.87 Waters 11 1 82 402 40.20 Williams ... 8 0 98 272 34.00 Staples 12 1 71* 287 26.09 Blacklock (P.) ... 11 1 63 255 25.50 S Hickson ... 8 0 85 203 25.37 Tucker 10 0 49 250 25.00 Gore ... ... 10 0 49 246 24.60 Weybourue ... v 0 59 180 22.50 Ashbolt ... 8 Q 77 177 22.12 Holdsworth ... 11 1 58 208 20.80 Manson ... 11 4 69 143 20.42 Hutchings ... 8 0 60 160 20.00 Wilson ... 5 0 43 100 20.00 Girdlestone ... 5 1 52* 79 19.75 Croinbie ... 10 1 62 169 18.77 C. Hickson ... 10 1 48 157 17.44 Robertson ... 10 0 32 145 14.50 Jacobs 12 0 34 173 14.41 Taylor 10 2 23 96 12.00 Uphani ... 9 1 31 91 11.37 Saundera ... 9 0 40 98 10.88 Blacklock ... 12 0 45 122 10.16 Sanderson ... 12 1 34* 110 10.00 Hickey ... 10 1 32 90 10.00 Douglas ... 5 0 18 50 10.00 *Not out. . ■ • CUP BOWLING. no m © till I Tucker ... 1107 45 384 40" 9.60 Ashbolt ... 868 43 309 30 10.30 Connell ..; 1224 66 467 45 10.37 Upham ... 1401 83 425 40 10.62 Hales ... 909 35 336 24 14.00 Hickey ... 1234 55 507 36 14.08 Stephenson ... 009 32 237 14 15.50 Greenfield ... 390 15 178 10 17.80 Eoldsworth ... 600 31 212 11 19.27 Waters ... 481 23 214 11 19.45 Benbow ... 603 29 ??0 11 20.00 Staples ... 1005 33 i.LB 25 20.72 Sanderson ... 871 17 5/3 27 21.22 • REPRESENTATIVE BATTING. Averages of players who took part in both the Hawkes Bay and Canterbury matches : — . • • . tt S to O © aj X 1 ••§ § g m £ rt •< Midlane .... 4 1 146 48:66 Richardson >.. 4 1 109 36.33 Tucker ... 4 1 74 24.66 Holds-worth ... 3 0 41 13.66 Connell ... 3 1 7 3.50 Niven ... 3 0 2 .66 REPRESENTATIVE BOWLING. s . • §> « i a .s s Hales „.- .... 180 10 42 9 '4.66 Upham ... 174 16 44 8 5.50 Richardson ... 22 1 17 2 8.50 Tucker ... 258 15 100 5 20.00 Connell ... 228 10 109 5 21.80 Holdsworth ... &>0 18 131 6 21.83 • BATTING.— AII Matches. | a' ■»' 9J 60 S tO •S ° g B tv , J A « •< Richardson ... 14 3 641 58 27 Midlane ... 13 2 602 54^72 Quee 10 0 357 35.70 Tucker ... 14 1 324 24.92 Staples ... 14 l 395 22.7* S. Hickson ... 9 0 203 *'.> G»re 12 0 V*; gf'J? Weybourne ... 9 0 ,« &•« Htldsworth ... 14 1 Jg gg SnW f l - U 1 159 15.90 Robert^ ... 12 0 m 1216 u P^m ... 11 2 100 11.11 BOWLING AVERAGES.— AII matches. • ■ S • % I d S 3 > p a « £ -5 • Upham ... 1575 99 469 48 9.77 Tucker .... 1365 60 484 45 10.75 Hales „., 1089 45 378 33 11.45 Connell . 1452 76 576 50 11.52 Eoldsworth ... 830 49 343 IT 20.17 P"jhardsoa ... 265 9 154 6 25.66