SHIELD CRICKET
AUCKLAND 100 FOR NONE
RAIN STOPS MORNING PLAY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) \ AUCKLAND, This Day.' The resumption of the Plunket Shield cricket match was delayed Dy rain. With Auckland wanting 102 runs to win, Postles and Whitelaw, opening batsmen, resumed, but after two-Overs and the addition of two runs a rain squall swept the ground and stopped play. Holes were bored in the ground to let the water away. Play was resumed ai noon.
Postles and Whitelaw batted care-, fully, and the Auckland score at the luncheon adjournment was 100 .without the loss of a wicket (Postles 47, Whitelaw, 47, extras 6).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 11
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103SHIELD CRICKET Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 11
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