LEAGUE CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 21

LEAGUE CRICKET

The defeat of-the A Grade League representatives by the B'3-on-Anniver? sary Day would make, it appear' that the B's claims to inclusion in the representative team is justified,, for in ..every .bianeh of the game the B. grade/players were superior on the day. After Murphy and Brough had taken, all the sting put d£ the. bowling,, the remaining A grade 'batsmen had a' great opportunity to reap a harvest of runs, but in this they' failed dismally.:': '"": ""*"":,V""""."'","" ; -yChurehill, whose^iaix ywickets^ were fully^deseryeaj:;: ■ Jpwled-^exc^ptipnally well, and /was -vastly *guperior-to: any ~of the A grade bowlers. Evans, Martin, of the B's, were equal [td.tho best of .the'A'grade."batsmen. Martin's performance behind the sticks.-was infinitelyahettcr^thaii that of any .'wicketkeeper 'tried to date. .V; -:'.'- -■ The C grade, easily outclassed the D, arid in this' game also one or two impressed by their batti.r.g'and bowling, chiefly Wheatley in --iJiy D grade and Hill in the G grade. Hill proved his wortn~as. a bowler by taking five wickets for 11 runs. !,.»..';,-••-. Th'v usual Saturday matches' were continued last week, and produced some rather, tall scoring, the Nivens ycrsus Overhead game yielding 560 runs/in 230 minutes. Three centuries weie recorded in this match, Bolt and Sielville making . 119 : and 108. respectively for Nivens, and Welsford. scoring, 178 for Overhead. = This game almost rea'eh'ed the league's record for one afternoon's P IayjsW.hich at present stands at 603. -Dobbs (125) and Eoberts. (94) put on a splendid partnership .for • Smith arid Smith, this pair notching'24o runs before being separated. ■'■' ; ' : Henderson (H.M.V.), who has provided one or twp sensational batting' and bowling feats* lately, ■ went' through Sargpod's batsmen to the tune of seven wickets for 15 runs, jwliich gives him a total of 44 wickets to* Sate.

„ Hill, of the W. D.: and H.O. Wills, playing-against Milk .Department,..was the opening batsman and scored 117 not put, during which time thp succeeding eight batsmen had made'two runs only "between them. Two -weeks ago Johnstone of the same team scored 149 I out of a total of 194. ■

; Morison (State Advances) had hard luck in losing his wicket when only four runs off the century. A' good threefigure sco^re-is all this player wants to put him' on" the road^to prominence sjid it would not be surprising to find M'orispn well up in the averages before the season ends.