REPRESENTATIVE MATCH

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 6

REPRESENTATIVE MATCH

CANTERBURY v. WELLINGTON

The last day of the inteprovincial cricket match between Wellington and Canterbury opened in fine weather on the Basin Reserve this morning before a moderate attendance of spectators. As the game stood, Canterbury had made 285 in their first innings, to which (Wellington replied yesterday, after a sensational recovery'^.from six wickets for 47, with 262..',8 ate yesterday afternoon Canterbury-went in again and made 160 for .the-' loss of two wickets. This morning the'two batsmen, Blunt and Patrick, 77 and 54 not out respectively, resumed to the bowling of Hutchings at the north end and Duncan at the south. Patrick hit Hutchings for a 4 and a' 6 (out by the pavilion—a lofty hook). The wicket was hard, dry, and. parched by the sun, and favoured the.batsmen greatly. Patrick added another four by a well-timed hit to leg off Duncan, and brought his total close to that of Blunt. Blunt pulled the first ball: from-,Hutchings- in the next over to square leg. Patrick rushed forward for an impossible" run, ' the ball being already.in the fielder's hands,,and Hutchings neatly removed the bails on the return. '1781-3—68/ 'Patrick had made hft" totalj' I.after'aftinauspicious, halting start; in something like, his old style by powerful hitting all round the wicket. His score included one six and ten fours.

Thomas was the new man, and faced the bowling of Duncan after Hutchings had bowled a maiden. A drive to the off from Duncan's first ball reached the 'boundary, and raised the total to 180. Thomas swung Hutching's second ball hard, to, leg, and .Dind was just unable to reach it as it fell on the top of the fence to the south of the pavilion. A single to Thomas made the total 190. Gibson, who was fielding square-leg in G. Baker's absence, let one pass from Blunt,' and the batsmen ran three. ■Thomas drove Duncan for afterwards, and with a single off Hutchings brought the total to 200. Blunt also added to his score, and Thomas got Hutchings away to the leg boundary for 4, followed by a couple. Blunt was now B6 and playing carefully. At 87 Blunt gave Duncan a possible chance off the 'bowler's own delivery, but the ball went >» little too high, Scoring -was rapid, SO in twenty minutes. Thomas, with the ,'Bcore at 215 and his own total 29, drove /'hard to mid-off, but Burton was unable Vto hold the hot one.

M'Girr took the ball from Hutchings tlat the north end, and found his pace {accelerated by the strong breeze. 1 Thomas put him past the slip for 4, •and again to leg for 4. 220 up. Another i' 4 followed i with a nice late cut. MiddleVton replaced Duncan. Off Middleton's "'last'ball, Thomas skied on to Gedye. ,i232r-4 44. Thomas had scored at a '•tremendous rate, being in only about [twenty-five minutes for his innings, 'twhich included eight 4'a. Reese followed Thomas, and Blunt /had another lucky escape of being atump-f-ed off M'Girr. The next haH -went to '•"'the on boundary, making his total 96. With a single off M'Girr and a leg iiboundary off Middleton, the Canterbury 'man reached his century, amid applause. The score was now 240. Thirteen runs later Reese was run out for S. 255—5-S. Sandman came Tn next,- ana opene'di. ;with a boundary hit! off Middleton, and twice put M'Girr to the leg boundary. Over a hundred runs had been scored in the hour. With' file total at 278 Hutchings once more went on to bowl at the .north end, in place of M'Girr. Sandman, ■who was in hitting humour, lan out to {Hutchings, but did not connect properly, and the ball went up into the slips, and was caught,by Duncan. 283—6— 19. Gray came in, and was badly missed'by-Gedye off a similar stroke to that which'ended Sandman's innings, j Gray hit out at both, bowlers, and 300 came up quickly, but at 301 he "was I j.caught at the wicket by Condliffa off Bntehings. 301—7—14. Evans did nob .last' long. With the score at 315 he; ■'.was bowled by a, yorker from Hutcnings. *315 —B—4. Read followed, and, after "'hitting Middleton to th» square-leg /boundary, was caught at mfd-on off the isame bowler by Duncan. 330—9—7. (The last, man in was Brunton. At 336 f;he was caught by Duncan finely at MidJton, far put off Middleton. Blunt carried 'out his bat for a magnificent innings of '137. Going in first he never gave a (Teal chance, though, ha was apparently /nearly stumped late in his innings. He •played fairly all round the wicket, and ikept the ball well'down. The innings ■included eleven 4's and eighth's. He ; was loudly on returning to 'the pavilion. In three representative j £ matches Blunt this season has made 402 five innings, an average of over 80. CANTERBURY. I (First innings ...&. 285 ■„.'■. ... . .:■ Second Innings. > Watson,-c Schraeder, b Hutchings ... 8 sßlunt, not out :.. 137 ■M'Ewin, c and b M'Girr , 16 Patrick, run out 68 Thomas, c Gedye, b Middleton 44 Reese, run out ; : 5 Sandman, c Duncan, b Hutchings ... 19 Gray, c Condliffe, b Hutchings 14 Evans, b Hutchings ../. 4 Read, c Duncan, b Middleton 7 Brunton, c Duncan, b Middleton ... 3 Extras 11 'Total :...:..........;......:.. : 336 -.-..■,-' BOWLING ANALYSIS. Overs. Mds. Kuns. Wks. M'Girr .:'............. 16 2 78 1 Middleton v 16.4 0 72 3 Hutchings 16 1 102 4 •Duncan ....r 8 0 44 0 ■Dind 4 0 23 0 *V. Baker „. 10 6 0 WELLINGTON. S^irst innings 262 .Wellington's second innings was opened by Dind and W. Baker against the bowling of Read and M'Ewin, Roese taking an over to enable M'Ewin to change ends. Playing nice cricket the batsmen raised the score to 29, when ■Baker hit out to Read and was clean bowled for 13, Dind being then 7, extras 9.