CRICKET REPRESENTATIVE MATCH DRAWN

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1946, Page 8

CRICKET REPRESENTATIVE MATCH DRAWN

MARIST A DEFEATS WOODSTOCK

The return match between Greymouth and Hokitika was played at Greymouth on Saturday and resulted in a draw, with the honours to the home side. H. Pierson made an excellent 50 for Hokitika and A. Barlow, a newcomer to the Greymouth team, justified his inclusion by taking three wickets for 18 runs and making 10 runs out of a small total. The Greymouth team was not at home on the concrete wicket and the standard of batting was below expectations. The Wingham Cup game, played on tne Recreation Ground yesterday, was a game of thrills and 540 runs were scored during the day. Woodstock fared badly in their first strike but made amends in the second innings when a sodden and slippery ball handicapped the bowlers. R. Madgwick scored a dashing 120 and R. Wells made 85 not out. The Marist batsmen had a field day and ran up the highest score of the season with 282 made in approximately three hours. Competition games were continued yesterday and Marist B, in spite of a loss on the first innings against Cobden, retain a one point lead in the competition. United A defeated Brunner on the first innings at Taylorville. GREYMOUTH V. HOKITIKA.

Hokitika batted first and, after a slow start, scored 140 runs for eight wickets. H. Pierson batted solidly and Baird and Wilson helped along with some free hitting at the close of the innings. Dewar bowled steadily, as did A. Barlow. The Cobden batsmen, A. Vaughan and D. Dewar made most of the runs when Greymouth batted, the other batsmen mis-timing their strokes on the fast wicket.

.Detailed scores were: — HOKITIKA. A. Wells, run out 1 H. Pierson, c Dewar bA. Barlow 50 A. Thomas, c Vaughan b Dewar 13 Sammons b Vaughan 3 Adamson, c Malley b Garforth 2 Baird, not out 29 Robinson, b Lawson 1 G. Stapleton, b A. Barlow 3 C. Jolly, b A. Barlow 3 T. Wallace, b Lawson 0 H. Wilson, not out 18 Extras 16 Total for 8 wickets 140 Bowling: R. Barlow 9/2/14/0; A. Knapp, 8/4/6/0; N. Lawson 14/4/21/ 2; D. Dewar 15/9/21/2; A. Vaughan 10/2/23/1; S. Garforth 7/4/10/1; A. Barlow 10/2/28/3. GREYMOUTH. A. Vaughan, not out 29 B. Constable, b Wilson 4 A. Knapp, b Stapleton 1 D. Dewar, c Pierson b Stapleton 30 F. Malley, c Stapleton b Wallace 0 W. Hamilton, b Wallace 0 A. Barlow, c Jolly b Wilson . . 10 Extras Total for 6 wickets 81 Bowling: H. Wilson 9/4/14/2; G. Stapleton 12/3/10/2; Sammons 6/ 2/15/0; Jolly 4/0/20/0; Wallace 3/3/ 0/2. MARIST A V. WOODSTOCK.

Woodstock scored only 20 runs in the first innings, S. Garforth, five wickets for six runs and O. Morris five for 14, sharing the bowling honours. Marist A replied with 282 (Garforth 64 retired, J. Morris 53, O. Morris 54, F. Bayley 44, McCarthy 24). Madgwick took four for 62 and Keenan three for 60. Batting again, the Woodstock team pasted the Marist bowling to score 238 for six wickets (R. Madgwick 120, R. Wells 85 not out). S. Garforth took two lor 44, T. Pfahlert two for 27, and O. Morris five for 62.

Marist A won by 262 runs on the first innings. UNITED A V. BRUNNER.

United declared with the score at 123 for nine wickets. Molloy, with 22 not, Taylor 22 and F. Knott 11 were the most successful batsmen. K. O’Brien took three for 33 and A. Hoggarth three for 55. Brunner replied with 72 (W. Williams 21, N. Reid 25). Lawson took four for 23 and Lindley five for 20. United A won by 51 runs on the first innings. . COBDEN V. MARIST B.

Marist B batted first and scored 79 (Reilly 19, A. Barlow 18, K. Knowles 11). Dewar took six for 10, having all the batsmen in trouble. Cobden declared at 155 for four wickets (Dewar 63 not out, Vaughan 59). Mathews took two for 45 and K. Knowles one for 14. Batting again, Marist had scored five for 60 at stumps. J. Knowles made 22 and P. Reilly 11. Dewar again bowled well to take three for 34 and J. Guy secured two wickets at no cost. Cobden won by 76 runs on the first innings. BUSINESS FIRMS’ MATCH

Brown, Walters eleven defeated a team from Ashby Bergh & Co. on the Recreation Ground on Saturday morning by 10 wickets. Ashby Bergh and Co. in their first innings scored 20 (Muir 10). Bowling for Brown Walters Schultz took three wickets, Ball, Jackson and Smith two each and Wright one. Brown Walters scored 86 (Westwood 40 not out, Ball 11, Evans 10). For Ashby Bergh Hughes took three wickets, Muir three, Lindley two and Moore and Clark one each. Ashby Bergh in their second knock were all out for 66 (Muir 27, Lindley 18, Young 14 not out). Baynes took| five wickets for Brown Walters, Evans two and Westwood and Wright one each.