Among prominent players who have scored over 500 runs without getting a century in Plunket Shield matches are: E Horspool, J. Shepherd, D. Sandman, A. W. Alloo, C. S. Dempster, W. S. Brice and C. Oliver.
Two. members of the Auckland Suburban Cricket ' ssociation senior teams were rendered temporarily unconscious through being struck on the head byballs from nearby wickets wh.n fielding in the Auckland Domain on a recent Saturday. With fourteen matches in progress for the comparatively limited playing space the cricketers have to keep their ttention divided between their own games and the'spasmodic fusillade of flying balls from neighbouring wickets. A visitor from Sydney, who was at the Domain on Saturday afternoon, remarked: "Well, this is the most remarkable instance of concentrated cricket I have ever seen. Our .cricketers would no more think of playing under these conditions than of flying over the moon, M ■ " .'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 22
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