NEW ZEALAND TEAM

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND TEAM

EASY WIN AT GAINSBOROUGH

KERR MAKES 160

(From the Special Correspondent'of the

United Press Association.) (Received September 7, 10 a.m.)

- GAINSBOROUGH, Sept. 6.

New Zealand won the cricket match against Minor Counties brilliantly and with ease. In reply to the Counties' first innings score of 310, New Zealand made 337 (Kerr 160), and then dismissed their opponents for 76, Gallichan and Carson.sharing the bowling honours.. -

i New Zealand scored brightly in the morning, Kerr and Weir adding 174 runs at the rate of 90 per hour. Kerr was brilliant, gliding, hooking, cutting, and driving freely and strongly, His highest score of the tour occupied three hours and a half, and included twenty-eight 4's and one 6. :

. Weir was also aggressive, hitting thirteen 4's and one 6. ~

Wallace opened brightly, and was dismissed by a fine running catch on the boundary. ,

Roberts was also forceful till he was snapped up by a fine one-handed catch close in at square leg."

New Zealand lost their last eight wickets for 107 runs. Hargreaves. (Yorkshire) bowled quite fast, and Benka (Middlesex) sent down well-flighted deliveries of good ..length, bowling lefthand breaks.

ALWAYS STRUGGLING. \ Minor Counties, in the second innings, were always struggling. , Carson and Gallichan bowled so well that lour batsmen were out for 60 runsCarson was sometimes almost fast, and Cowie once sent a bail flying for 32 paces! Gallichan, whose'length was perfect, made the ball float into the breeze.'. ::-■-•-•' .'■ » -:'-':: ■ ■'■' ■ '■'";'■■■.■■■■' The remaining wickets fell quickly, tha bowlers being supported by brilliant catching. Carson took two brilliant "catches in the slips and one on the boundary, Roberts took a good one in the slips. ' ; The New Zealanders, going for a hit, lost three wickets cheaply, but scored the winning runs quickly. j Among the spectators was Lord I Liverpool, former Governor-General' of New Zealand. j Details:— ; MINOR COUNTIES. First innings .". 310 | Second Innings. Butler, b Gallichan 8 Rought-Rought, Ibw, b Gallichan .. 11 Nutter, b k Carson 4 Felton, c Carson, b Donnelly 26 Waugh, b Carson ................. 8 Benka, c Lowry, b Gallichan ..'.. , 4 Maxwell, c Carson, b Gallichan .. 0 Poynder, b Carson 3 Franklin, not out U Lund,; c Roberts, b Carson . 1 Ilargreaves, c Carson, b Gallichan 0 Extras n Total 7G Bowling Analysis. O. M. R. W. Dunning 5 1 22 .0 Roberts 4 1 7 0 Carson 11 3 20 4 Gallichan ...... 11.1 4 20 5 .' Donnelly 2 0 2 1 NEW ZEALAND. First Innings. Hadlcb. Ibw, b Lund ..... ■.--.... 0 Kerr, C Waugh, b Hargreaves ... 160 Weir, c Rought-Rought, Waugh .. 79 Wallace, c Rought-Rought, b Lund 33 SDonnelly, Ibw, b Benka .....-....' 4 Roberts, c Hargreaves, b Benka . 23 Carson, b Benka ...... — ..' .. 0 Lamason, b Benka 0 Gallichan, c Benka. b Hargreaves 6 Lowry, not out ].. 11l Dunning, c Franklin, b ,Hargreaves 8 Extras ...-••• 13 Total ' 337 ' Bowling.—Lund took two wickets ior 78 runs; Hargreaves1, three .f0r.82; Nutter, none for 35; Benka, four for, 78; Felton, none for 18; Waugh, one for 33. Second Innings. Hadlee, c Benka, b Hargreaves . 6 Lamason, c Benka, b Lund • 0 Carson, not out 14 Gallichan, c Hargreaves, b Maxwell 8 Wallace, not out ; 23 Extras 2 Total for three wickets ... 53 Bowling.—Lund took one wicket for 16 runs; Hargreaves, one for 24; Maxwell, one for 11. ' .''..'< \

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