KILBIRNIE V. WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 15

KILBIRNIE V. WELLINGTON

Except for a few minor incidents. Kilbirnie and Wellington between them provided featureless cricket on the No. 2 wicket at the Basin Reserve. On a wicket that should have produced more runs than it did, the bowlers seemed to have the position pretty well in hand, in spite of the fact that they had a jgusty wind with which to contend. In reply to Kilbirnie's very moderate first innings score of 210, Wellington could only muster 175, leaving them with 35 runs to the bad. Kilbirnie, after scoring 157 for six wickets in its second innings, declared, and left Wel.lington to get 192 runs for a draw in seventy minutes. Wellington plugged along until stumps in a sedate fashion, and at the end of the day's play had managed to collect 106 at the expense of four wickets.

J. Ell, the Wellington batsman, compensated in some measure for the indifferent display of most of his colleagues. He scored a very handy 69 in the first innings, and had scored 40 in the second when he went out to a big hit to long-on. R. Allen, Kilbirnie's slow left-hander, got him both times. He scored all round the wicket, making use of the late cut and the square cut nicely on occasions. In his first total there were eleven 4's, and in his second four 4's and a 6. One of the bright spots in Wellington's first knock was the lively partnership between E. D. Blundell and E. Mallard, who had a "go" at practically everything and put on 43 for a last-wicket partnership. Wellington's score would have looked very poor without that 43. An enterprising innings by H. Lubransky, who scored 55 not out, helped to make Kilbirnie's second strike a little more entertaining. He favoured late strokes oft the fastish stuff, and did very well for himself behind the wickets. It took him 58 minutes to make his score, which included a 6—a hefty hook off a short ball from Ell—and a 5 and six 4's. A. Ashenden scored a tidy 41, and faced every bowler confidently except Blundell, who was bowling with the wind. Most of Ashenden's runs were scored behind the wickets. His score included six 4's. ...

There were no remarkable bowling averages. Allen came out of it best, capturing six of Wellington's wickets in ithe two innings for 63. C. Parsloe took three for 56 in Wellington's first innings." ■' Blundell bagged ' three of Kilbirnie's wickets for 60 runs. He was the only Wellington bowler who looked to be dangerous at times. Details:— KILBIRNIE. First innings ' 210 Second Innings. Parsloe, lbw, b Blundell 0 Rice, b Meech 13 A. Ashenden, lbw, b Blundell .. 41 S. Ward, c Monteath, b Blundell .. 6 Christopherson, b Morgan ....... 21 Lubransky, not out $~. 55 Wilson, c Blundell, b Mallard . 4 Extras 17 Total for six wickets (declared) .; - 157 Bowling.—Blundell took three wickets for 60 runs, Meech one for 28, Mallard one for 12, Morgan one for 4, Ell none for 36. WELLINGTON. First Innings.. Foley, c Broit, b Ashenden ...-.... 8 Thomas, c Wilson, b Parsloe .. 5 Monteath, c Turnbull, b Earsloe . 0 Morgan, st Broit, b Allen ........ 17 Ell, b Allen 69 Whyte, b Parsloe 17 Kuhn, b Allen ~..;..... 8 Reynolds, not out 2 Mallard, c Wilson, b Rice ........ 23 Meech, b Rice 2 E. D. Blundell, not out 16 Extras 8 Total ..1......... 175 Bowling.—C. Parsloe took three wickets for 56, J. Ashenden one for 67, H. F. Rice two for 18, R. Allen three for 23, S. Ward none for 3. Second Innings. Monteath, c Ward, b Allen ...... 28 Thomas, c and b Allen ..' 5 Ell, c Turnbull, b Allen 40 Reynolds, b Parsloe 6 Kuhn, run out <>. Morgan,. not out - 1* Meech, not out " Extras - •"• __^ Total for four wickets ......106 Bowling.—J. Ashenden took no wickets for 23. Rice none for 6, Allen three for 40, Parsloe one for 20, A. AsWnden none for 3.