MIDLAND AND HUTT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 20

MIDLAND AND HUTT

I A ninth-wicket partnership (which was also the last, a player being absent) that realised 159 runs was the saving of Midland (without Tindill and Dustin) from a poor score against Hutt at Kelburu Park. Hutt had nothing to complain of when the score was 124 at the fall of the eighth wicket, but they faced an entirely different proposition at the close of Midland's innings. The men who made the difference were Law.ton and Clark, and it was lucky for Midland that Clark arrived just in time to take his stand at the crease. Good as it was, the partnership was not a record one for local senior cricket.

Lawton (who hit five 6's) and Clark sent the score along at a good pace. They'took, advantage of every little looseness in the fielding, which was not at all weak, and the full strength of the Hutt bowling failed to dislodge them for a long time, The pair took sixty-two minutes to make a century and eighty-three minutes for the 150. Prospects seemed bright for Lawton to make 100 when Champness skittled Clark's wickets, : .

McLeod had a successful afternoon with the ball for Hutt, bagging five wickets for .53 run's in sixteen overs. Hamilton took two for 24 in fourteen overs, but Judd, although he bowled thirty-four overs, secured only one wicket for 80. The fact, that Judd's bowling was no present to the opposition, however, was. shown by his tally of ten maiden overs. McLeod might have been used with advantage against the Lawton-Clark combination.