CRICKET TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 11

CRICKET TOUR

BATTING HONOURS

AGGREGATES AND CENTURIES

(By "Not Out.")

By their batting performances in the match with Warwickshire, now in proi gress, C. C. Dacre and M. L. Page gain tho distinction of scoring 1000 runß on the present tour. Five members of the Now Zealand cricket team have now made the achievement, the others with four-figure aggregates being C. S. Dempster, R. C. Blunt, and T. C. Lowry. Tho record in this connection is a notable ono, and compares very favourably with that of the Australians on their tour last year, when seven members of tho team succeeded in passing the onethousand mark. Of tho New Zealanders, Dempster has tho highest aggregate as well as the best average. Next on tho list is Blunt, with the captain, T. O. Lowry, in third place. Tho figures for the five batsmen who have passed the thousand-mark are as follow:— „ „ Inn- N-O. M.S. Ax. Avk. C. S Dempster . ::t) n ISO Kl3l DX24 R. C. Blunt .... 20 1 ids 1177 .17.08 T. C. Lowry .... 29 1 jog II2U 40.21 UO. Dacro .... 27 II 107 1020 37.T7 m. h. rage — :n :j i4 o * 1021 - MM "Not out. Century scores made by the abovementioned batsmen are as follow Dempster (four): 109 not out v. Club Gonforence; 178 v. Durham; 154 v. Scottish Counties; 180 v. Warwickshire Blunt (two): 11!) v Martineau's Eleven; 195 v. Northumberland. Lowry (three): 106 v. M.C.C.: 105 v Sussex; 106 v. Worcestershire. Dacro (three): 101 v. Martiueau's Eleven; 107 v. M.C.0.; 167 v. .Edinburgh Clubs. Page (two): 134 y. Cambridge University; 140 not out v. Worcestershire. Others who have scored centuries an> as follow:— C. P. W. Allcott (two): 102 not out v. Civl Service; 131 v. Warwickshire. J. E. Mills (two): 188 v. Martineau 's Eleven; 104 not out v. Civil Service. All told eighteen centuries have been scored by the Now Zcalanders on tho tour to dato.