WELLINGTON v. INSTITUTE.
•" Institute^should have no difficulty m Seating tK"S modesf;.total scored-by Wellington in them first innings on the Baßin Reserve on Saturday. Scoring was very slow, and Wellington, who had first use of the wicket, closed their innings with, a total of 131. Airey and Morgan opened the innings to the bowling ,oi Fortune and Bilby. Play was very slow, and when the score was 14 Henderson relieved Fortune. Shortly .after, -the change^ Airey was beaten by a ball from Henderson. Hamilton was the next man in, and-he and Morgan vere-'rpartners for a ;Wnile imtilhe got his '}eg mjront of a.bal from Henderson. -IS—2-3. Westbrook Joined Morgan, who'was increasing ms score very slowly, most of his shots being singles. , .Westbrook remained at the yicket just;long, enough to open his score, when he was bowled by Henderson. ■Wiren. followed,., but ..had scored, only 6 when he was p'iit but by a-nice ball from Dempster. Play had been in progress nearly seventy minutes, and only 41 was on the board. Johnson joined Morgan, and at the afternoon tea adjournment the. two .batsmen had carried .Wellington's score to SO. When /play was: resumed •Johnson, who had...batted.., very,steadily, was caught b'eiiiudthte'stumps' by Hankins iv Henderson's'./*' first.; over.- • 84—EP-20. Wagstaff was next, T>ut after hitting three singles .was /bowled- by Bilby. The next wicket .fell•■very .cheaply, Goodwin being clean- ;{wwlejl; by Bilby after hitting one single. 'Cousins followed, and although his-Ecorfe was not very high, he played sound cricket. After being two and a. half hours at the crease, Morgan, who had made 47, stepped in front of a ■ball from Bilby, and thus broke up his partnership with Cousins. Morgan's place was taken by Blundell, who was very unfortunate in being caught in the outfield by Dempster after scoring 2. 109—9-^-2. O'Connor joined Cousins, and they carried the score to 131 before Cousins was stumpp.d by Haakins. The innings closed at 5^16. p.m. Institute went in to bat at about 5.23 p.m.j Dempster and Banks being the opening batsmen. Dempster batted very soundly,, and had scored 25 when he was ■bowled 'by Blundell. Wareham joined '.Banks, and when stumps were drawn at .fi.3o p.m. they had carried the score to 52. ; ' ; WELLINGTON. Fir»t Innings. Wi.SVAirey, b Henderson 6 0. G> Hamilton, Ibw, b Henderson .. 3 E. A. Westbrook, b Henderson 1; E. C. Wiren, b Dempster 6 0. Johnson, e.Hankins, b Henderson 20 W. !Wagstaff, b Bilby , 3 (-T. L. Goodwin, h Bilby ;.. 1 It. Morgan, Ibw, b Bilby 47 KD. Blundell, c Dempster, b Bilby 2 A. MV Cousins, fit. Hankins^ b Bilby 11 C. O'Connor, not out , li ■Extras 17 ; Total ;....: 131 ■Bowling Analysis.—^Fortune took no wickets for 14 runs: Bilby, five for .27; Henderson, four for 2S; Dempster, one for 31; Aitken, none for 14. Fall of wickets :-r-One for 14, two for IS, Ihree for 20, four for 41, five for 84, sis for 90, seven i'ov 9S, eight for 107, nine for 109, ten for 131', INSTITUTE. 1 First Innings. C S. Dempster, b Blundell .......... 25 .T, Banks, not out 16 (X Wareham, not oufc ..»..»... 6 Estras ~... 5 Total for one wicket 52 Bowling Analysis.—Blundell took one wicket for 19 runs; Goodwin, none for 8; Cousins, none for 14; O'Connor, none for 6. ■. ■ ; ■_ Pall d wickets:—One for 46.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 14
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