KARORI AND OLD BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 13

KARORI AND OLD BOYS

There was quite a village-green' atmosphere at Karori, where, amid pleasant surroundings, senior cricket was played lor the first time. The pr> moted club (.Karori) had its first eleven at home to Wellington College Old Boys,, and-an interesting match result* cd in Karori gaining their first win in senior cricket. Old Boys, who were without J. R. Lamason, had first use of the new wicket, which played reasonably well. Batsmen, however, could riot master the bowlers, though sonvi good performances were registered with the bat by members of both teams. As an aid to sighting the ball the club had provided two excellent sight "screens." Burnette, after an early "life," faced the Karori attack, in which there was quite an amount of sting, with confidence, and he went a long way, his 45 being by far the best contribution to the Old Boys' total. A , 6 and five' 4's were included in Bucnette's score. L. V. Browne, former Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and Nelson representative, also shaped well, and he, too, made one big hit for 6. He was unbeaten with 18 when the last wicket fell with the total at 121. McDonald's speedy deliveries accounted for five wickets at the small cost of 38 runs, and King captured four of the other five wickets, also cheaply. M. Browne deserved more than one wicket with his slow deliveries and the other bowler, Duffy, had the batsmen tied up, except for one expensive over, four of his six overs being scoreless. Karori found runs fairly hard to get, Duncan setting his field in'such a way as to keep the runs down. Fair progress was made by the batsmen, however, and a strong hand by Duffy put Karori on the right road. . Griffiths commanded a good deal of respect, and at one stage he was unlucky not to perform "the. hat trick." Hollings (the Karori captain), after surviving an appeal for lbw, gave good assistance to the side, and it was when Prince and Cutts were associated for the seventh wicket that the winning- runs were scored. After that the batsmen went mainly for a hit, and Griffiths increased his bag of wickets to seven, his bowling being one of the features of th« match. Cutts batted attractively in making 31. Boundary hits were few and fa? between—a tribute to Duncan's placing of the field. Duffy's half-cen-tury included only three 4's, and in : Cutts's 31 there were two 4's. Details:— ' ■ ; OLD BOYS. First Innings. Dv Chateau, c Duffy b King 10 Burnette, c Hollings b King 45 McGuire. b McDonald 5 Rainbird, b M. Browne 12 R. Lamason, b McDonald 4 : Wareham, lbw, b King 7 L. V. Browne, no; out 13 Bush, b McDonald 5 Griffiths, b McDnnald 0 Duncan, c Prince, b McDonald .. 0 Wiggs, c Duffy. 1j- King 4 Extras n Total ..; 121 Fall of wickets.--One for 14. two for : 221 three for 55, four for 70. five for : 91, six for 96, seven for 101 eight for 101, nine for 113, ten for 121. : Bowling.—McDonald took five wickets for 36 runsi King four for 35, M. Browne one for 23 r and Duffy none for 16. ■ ...'..'. KARORI. . . First Innings. Keenan, c R. La:;iason b Griffiths 13 Duffy, c Wareham b Rainbird ... 50 ' Standidge, b Grifiths' o Hollings. c Wareham b Griffiths .. i 9 M. Browne, b Griffiths o Edwards, c Wareham b Griffiths .'. 8 Cutts, st Lamasca b Rainbird . 31 Prince, c Griffiths: b Wareham ... 11 Rowe not out • n King, b Griffiths ...... ""' 7 McDonald, b Grilfiths '.'.'" l Extra ..,..; i Total ;,....;/......;....... 150 i/^y of wickets'""°^e for 25, two for 25, three for 53, four for 53 five for 67, six for 110, seven for 133 eight for 133, nine for 148,. ten for 150 Bowling.—Griffiths took seven wickets for 65 runs;.Duncan, none for 18L. V. Browne, none for 19; Wareham, one for 5; Rainbi-rd, two for 22; Bush none for 11; Wi;:gs, none for 5; and Burnette, none for 3..: ; '-... The umpires were. Messrs. Lambert and Jensen