A CONVINCING WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 8

A CONVINCING WIN

CANTERBURY BEATEN

1By,• I MParatih ■ I'ivss Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, February 7. The 2000 spectators who saw the cricket match today between the English women's touring team and the Canterbury team must have left the ground feeling that the gap between the standards of men's and women's cricket need be only a small one. The visitors won convincingly by 232 runs on the fh-st innings.

The Canterbury bowling and fielding was little, if at all, inferior to that of the \ifeitois, but the batswomen had less skill and less confidence. .

The English team had- first use of the spleudid wicket and declared at 305 for seven wickets. Maclagen scored 143. She began slowly, showing a 'correct defence to anything at all dangerous and . scoring ivith good placements off loose balls. Later

she hit freely, showing fine command of scoring She gave two difficult catches, both late in tlu innings, and even-.

tiially fell to a brilliant one-handed catch in the slips by Y. Belworthy. Canterbury began well aud had 30 runs on for no wickets. Then three wickets

were thrown away by bad judgment •in running, and five fell with the addition of only one run. Canterbury scored 73 and 33 for one wicket.

The best scores for England were:— "Uaclapcu 143, Hide 32, Partridge 31. Dow en took three wickets for G4. For Cauterbuiy Hooper scored 21, Garner 30 .