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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 11

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PLUNKET SHIELD. WON BY WELLINGTON. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, February 11. Though Auckland secured a first innings lead,. Wellington avoided an outright defeat with comparative ease in the inter-provincial cricket match at the Basin Reserve to-day, and won the Plunket Shield. Wellington beat Canterbury and Otago outright, and lost on the first innings to Auckland, scoring 18 points. Auckland' scored an outright win over Otago, and beat Canterbury and Wellington on the first innings, scoring 16 points. To-day, Auckland, replying to Wellington’s first innings total of 152. made 235. A declaration in an effort to force an outright win was not made, the visiting captain preferring to let his batsmen get runs quickly or get out. Wellington batted all the afternoon for 308 for five wickets, a feature being a great stand of 201 for the third wicket by Lamason, who palyed a brilliant innings of 127, and McLeod, who shaped very solidly for 94. Scores: — WELLINGTON—First Innings .. 152 AUCKLAND—First Innings. Whitelaw, b Symes 10 Mills, b Parsjoe •• 4 Townsend, st. Blandford b Griffiths 9 Wallace, c Lamason b Griffiths.. 56 Postles, st. Blandford' b Griffiths 51 Hook, b Parsloe . • .... • • § Garrard, b Griffiths .. . • • • 40 Bowie, c Symes b Griffiths .. • • 4 Edmonds, c Ell b Parsloe .... 8 Pearson, not out . ? 27 Andrews, run out .. .. • • 2 Extras •• . • • • • • • Total .. 235 Bowling: Parsloe 22/5/51/3; Symes 13.3/5/30/1; Griffiths 23/0/90/5; Gallichan 14/2/41/0; Lamason 5/2/7/0. WELLINGTON—Second Innings. Moloney, b Garrard 29 McLeod, b Hook 94 Ell, st. Edmonds b Garrard .. .. 4 Lamason, c Edmonds b Garrard.. 127 Morgan, not out 20 Blandford, c Edmond's b Garrard 4 Gallichan, not out 5 Extras 25 Total for five wickets . - 308 Bowling: Cowie 12 overs, 2 maidens, 34 runs, 0 wickets; Townsend 21/6/ 53/0; Andrews 23/5/48/0; Garrard 31/5/95/4; Postles 5/0/29/0; Hook 5/1/24/1.

POVERTY BAY v. M.C.C. VISITORS HOLD ADVANTAGE. GISBORNE, February 11. M.C.C. continued to score briskly after lunch, Mitchell-Innes scoring especially freely, and eventually being the fourth out for 43, with the total at 139. Human followed, and immediately 'attacked the bowling, but lost Parks, who played very solidly for 45, at 141. Human ■ then hit out at everything, and the score mounted rapidly to 206, when the closure was applied. Blathwayt, . a fast medium trundler, with a deceptive swerve, did the best of the local bowlers. With just under two hours to play, Poverty Bay opened, Boon scoring five off the first three balls,. but eventually going for 12. Four wickets were down for 26, but a fine fighting innings by Reeves, who played chanceless cricket, took the total to 105, all being out just before stumps were drawn. Reeves hit three fours in his 51, and frequently found gaps to the off for slashing drives. Baxter impressed most of the visiting bowlers, swerving the ball remarkably, and also effecting a break-back. Scores:

M.C.C. —First Innings. Parks, c and b Sharp 45 Sims, b Blathwayt 1 Hardstaff, b Blathwayt 39 Holmes, c Sharp b Stewart .. .. 8 Mitchell-Innes, lbw., b Robertson 43 Human, not out 50 Langridge, not out .. .... 15 Extras 5 Total for 5 wickets dec... 206 Bowling: J. Blathwayt 16 overs, 9 maidens, 2 wickets, 45 runs; E. James 23/6/0/52; G. J. Robertson 11/0/1/40; M. Sharp 9/0/1/37; G. H. Stewart 5/0/1/27.

POVERTY BAY—First Innings. M. K. Boon, c Langridge b Lyttelton 12 E. James, b Baxter 5 C. Fraser, c Langridge b Baxter 1 G. J. Robertson, lbw., b Baxter.. 2 P. Dow, c Human b Langridge .. 3 S. D. Reeves, lbw, b Sims .. .. 51 P. Bennett, b Read 3 J. Carroll, c Innes b Langridge .. 0 J. Blathwayt, c Lyttelton, b Langridge .. .. ■ 0 M. Sharp, not out 12 G. Stewart, b Sims 0 Extras 16 Total ..105 TO-DAY’S PLAY. GISBORNE, February 12. A moderate westerly breeze was the only factor which prevented conditions being perfect for the resumption of the match between Poverty Bay and Marylebone. This morning, instead of forcing a follow-on, the M.C.C. sportingly elected to bat again, but changed the batting order to enable the tail-enders to have a strike, and the result was that for a start wickets fell quickly. The captain, Tolmes, was the first to go, and after Lyttelton and Read made a short stand, four wickets fell for the addition of fifty runs. Human and Hardstaff, however stopped the rot, the paii’ attacking the Poverty Bay slow bowlers, to bring the century up after 70 minutes. The score at lunch was five.

M.C.C.—Second Innings. Holmes, c Sharp b Blathwayt .. 7 Lyttelton, b Robertson .. .. N 27 Read, c Blathwayt b Fraser .. 19 Powell, c James b Robertson .. 9 Mitchell-Innes, c Bennett b Fraser Human, not out 28 Hardstaff, not out 16 Extras 1 Total for five wickets .. .. 114