CRICKET VISIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 67, 20 March 1943, Page 6

CRICKET VISIT

AUCKLAND CHAMPIONS

TIE ON FIRST INNINGS

In the special cricket match, between the Auckland senior champions (Grafr toh-Y-M.C.A;). and Wellington's leaders (Hutt), commenced yesterday afternoon and concluding today at the Basin Reserve, there was. an exciting' finish to the first innings. • The visitor's, batting first, had made 129 runs, and Hutt's reply had reached 62 before the second wicket fell. Then wicket's commenced to fall cheaply to Burke and Martin, and Hutt's innings ended with the" score at the same total as that made by the visitors.

C. Muir made more than half the runs for Hutt, after haying taken eight of the ten wickets for just under seven runs apiece. Burke (who played in Wellington cricket—for Karori—some years ago) bowled most effectively for the," Auckland champions in taking five wickets at an , average small cost of seven runs. Before the luncheon adjournment today the visitors were again bat- | ting and had made 4 runs without loss; Those in the visiting side included W. Dunning, who made • a century for Auckland in the last veterans' match here with Wellington. \ At 2.20 p.m. the visitors, in their second Innings,-had made 31 for no wickets. Details:— . 1 GRAFTOX-Y.M.C.A. First Innincs. Ritchie, b Buchan 18 Williams, lbw, b Muir : VI C.Ellis, c>Stehr, b Muir ............ 7 Martin, c Dickinson, b Muir 24 Wallace, c O'Reilly, b Muir 18 Nl Ellis, c Chapman, b Muir 8 Burke, c and b Muir ...".. 24 Butler, c Bennett, b Muir ~..>.........' 4 Patoni. lbw, b Muir ............... 10 Dunning, not out ■•..'. 3 Brown, c King, b" O'Reilly , 0 Extra .....; 1 . Total ~.............'.............. 129 Bowling.—Chapnian took no wickets for 18 runs, Buchan one for 42, Muir eight for 55, O'Reilly one tot 13. ■' . ■ . . Second Innings. Ritchie, not but. G C. Ellis, not out 25 • Total for no wickets ............... 31 "' ' ;' ' . HUTT. r:. '"...' ',■>.''■■?.. First Innings. . . . Mustard, c Ellis, b Dunning .......... 17 Muir, .run out; t>s Stehr, lbw, b Burke .:... -1 Bennett, c Butler, b Murtin .......... 2 Chapman, b Burke 5 Pegler, b Martin 0 King, b Burke . ...i..........i... 5 Dickinson, b Burke 0 O'Reilly, c Butter, b Martin 9 -Walli not out ; i- 1 Buchan, b Burke 2 Extras ...;.................. ■ 19, , \Total'., 129 Bpwllng.—Brown took no wickets for 17 runs, Wallace none for 20, Burke five' for 35, Dunning one for 6, Martin three for 32.