IMPOSING FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 23

IMPOSING FIGURES

BLU-NT'S SCOKES FOR CANTERBURY. (By-Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUBCH, 2nd July. J-ioger Blunt, Canterbury and New Zealand1 cricketer, will leave Christchurch for Dunedin.on transfer with his firm next, week. His loss will be a serious one to Canterbury cricket. He has been playing club cricket since the 1917-18 season, and 'during that time he has scored 5065 runs in 108 innings, which, with six not outs, gives him an average of 55.52 runs. In 1924-25 he totalled 1071 rvms in club cricket, including seven centuries. In the past four years he has scored over a thousand runs per seasoiv-viz., 1090; 1171, ,1300, and 1070. :, . . -. -

Krom 1917 to ID2C, for Canterbury, Blunt has played 00 innings (three.not outs), for 2135 runs, ah average of 37.4 G. Four times he passed the century for New Zealand in the same period, and scored 1004 runs in 29 innings, an average of 34,62. In the grand total of club, ■ representative, and New Zealand games in those eight seasons, he lias.scored 8804 runs in 197 innings, nine times -not out,, an average of 46.82. On four occaßions r Blunt has made a double century, three times in club cricket, and 216 against Goulburn. Last year his highest score for Canterbury was 174 against MacLaren's team, when he and Worker put on 208 for the-first wicket, Worker's contribution being 05. It is felt here that with Blunt to strengthen them, Otago will be a hot proposition for. the Plunket Shield matches this season.