CRICKET AVERAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 11

CRICKET AVERAGES

LOCAL SENIOR BOWLERS

Although the bowling department of local cricket is often criticised as being weak, the averages for the senior competition show that there have been exceeding y .fine performances with the f!" i I,- Slx series of matches completed thirty-one players are credited nJ +v 7 mg aken at least te>n wickets. Ut that number eight have "bagged" twenty or more wickets, 'with F T Badcock and L. Beard standing out in cerned Th^ f are concerned These two players also have splendid averages, as have quite a number of. other bowlers who have not taken so many wickets^ The averages Wf ,° Se P- la, yerS who have" taken at ieast ten wickets are:

I. Beard';-(H) ■ Wickets. Kirns. Avg. 5g2r.^!::::::»" « ? Aldersley (H X;:" ft Ji" "-^ coSnfU-:::::: »« "•" Homngi (V)' ;•• " 219 ■■16.54 Lambert Wv.)' v »5D isio Bnumber (1)... J{ oj? "•»« Duncan (o.B.) „-.. 327 »n«. Massoy-- (I) l ?' -j^ 20.8S plant-(w) ■: :::;v"-- jj <« 21.09 A. C: Tripo (V) .. ; J| 321 Mackay (V) ........... f r r,^ 22.0r Vletmoyec (V) ;■ ..'l4 3T3 jH?Browne:. (Y.M.) .. {„ 5,,; "J-°jJ Malcolm (I) ..... jj 3 -'«-08 J«dd (M) « VAI Craig (AY) «.•.*•♦«.•• Jo .ijj 29.0u /■^ ,V> Unlverslty (V). Thorndon (T»; Instt