PLUNKET SHIELD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 8

PLUNKET SHIELD

CANTERBURY v. OTAGO. (BY TKLKORAPH— PBBBS ASSOCIATION) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Iv bright cool weather, with a steady breeze blowing, Canterbury, with four wickets down for 111 runs, continued their innings on a wicket that had dried considerably. Patrick was 17 and Carlton two, but in the first over Crawford' got the latter's off stump. 111—5—2. Reese opened brightly, getting a 6 off Eckhoff in the first over. He then played late to a swinger from Crawford. 121 — (h— 6. Patrick was going like a champion when given out leg before. 140-7-27. Beal, with Sandman, batted on the runs, and added over sixty before Sandman, after having two escapes with a. similar stroke, played on to R.ams'.ten. 201 — 8—22.8 — 22. Bennett chopped on to his wicket Siedeberg's first balJ. 206—9—0. P<oxsl»all soon went leg before to Banißden. 238—10—3. Beal being iuibeaten, \\itb. a. briJJiaajk^ chanegtee* -66.

He should have been run oub before scoring. Scores : — Carlton. b Crawford 2 Reese, b Crawford 9 Patrick, 1.b.w., b Crawford 27 Beal not out - 58 Sandman, b Ramsden 22 Bennett, b Siedeberg ... 0 Borshall, 1.b.w., b Ramsden 3 Extras 11 Total 218 Bowling Analysis. — Crawford took six wickets for 67 runs ; Eckhoff, none for 56;' Ramsden, two for 29; Siedeberg, two for 55. Crawford, bowled four noballs. Otago's second" innings was opened by Watson and Shepherd, who played up to luncheon time, when the score was 15 for no wickets — Watson 4, Shepherd 10.