SPORTING DECISION

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 13

SPORTING DECISION

M.C.C. v. POVERTY BAY

VISITORS BAT AGAIN

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, This Day. I A moderate westerly breeze was the' only factor which prevented conditions from being perfect for the resumption of the cricket match between Poverty Bay and the M.C.C. team. Having de-J clared yesterday with five wickets j down^for 206, the visitors proceeded to, dismiss the local team for 105, but this | morning, instead of forcing a follow I on, they sportingly elected to bat again. The M.C.C. batting order was changed to enable the tail-enders to have a strike and the result was that for a start wickets fell quickly. The captain, E. R. T. Holmes, was first to go, and after Lyttelton and Read had made a short stand four wickets fell for the addition of fifty runs. Human and Hardstaff, however, stopped the rot, the pair attacking the Poverty Bay slow bowlers and bringing a century up after 78 minutes. The score at lunch was 117 for five. Details:— POVERTY'BAY. First innings 105 M.C.C. First innings: Total for five wickets declared 206 Second Innings. Holmes, c. Sharp, b Blathwayt '7 Lyttelton, b Robertson 27 Read, c Blathwayt, b-Fraser .... 19 Powell, c James, b Robertson 9 Mitchell-Innes, c Bennett, b Fraser 9 Human, not out 29 Hardstaff, not out 16 Extras 1 Total for five wickets 117