OLD BOYS AND KILBIRNIE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 4

OLD BOYS AND KILBIRNIE

Prolific batting in the early stages was not maintained by Old Boys later in theit opening innings against Kilbirnie on KalIjn, the rain having started again, lhere wos.no tea adjournment. ■ ' Dv Chateau and. Wareham opened Old Boys' innings, and Wareham went very quickly He was followed by Bui'nette, who with dti Chateau, on the slightly greasy but rapidly-drying wicket;-register-Id the best partnership of the afternoon, advancing the score by. 89 runs. Dv Chateau was Wp-scorer with 63 runs, < comm'ledin free yet careful style with snots ?H round the W *« was a chadless innings, occupying an hour and a Halt. Burriette survived him at.the crease for not many minutes, and ran hini close for best score with a well-made 49. He was playing promisingly after 77 minutes of batting when he had the bad luck to play one of Crook's lightning deliveries on to bis wickets. The partnership broken, Kilbirnie's bowlers achieved ; more success. Crook added three more wickets to his bag at a total cost of 68 runs for the four, and Hepburn, who came on late in the afternoon, did next best with, two wickets for 32. The only other bowler to take any wickets was Morris, who bagged the first two (including the valuable dv Chateau's) for 46 runs. The fielding was good, despite the.difficulties presented by a slippery surface and at times a gusty wind. ■ Details:— . OLD BOYS. ( ■ : ilrst Innings; ' ■/'.■... Dv Chateau; b: Morris. 53 Wareham1,-c Crook;-b Morns ~,.:.*.t. .-9 Burnette; b Crook ..•.,:'.......-.-..'.. j»a | Parsloe, c Ward, b^Crook ............. -U J. Lamaso.n, b Hepburn ~......-. /U McGuire, b Crook ~...,.-. 12 R. Lamason, not out -lj> ■ Sadler, Ibw, b' Crook .............:... / 1 Browne, b Hepburh ". •'•• J Extras ......;..-..... 7Total for eight: wickets ...,: -• 187 Fall of Wicket's.—Ohe'for'24> two for 113, three for 123, four for 154, five for 153, six for 184, seven for 186, eight for 187. Bowling Analysis.—Crook took four wickets for 68 runs, Hepburn two for 32, Morris two for 46, Ward none for 13, Griffiths none for 21. . '