CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12769, 27 January 1936, Page 6

CRICKET.

M.C.C. v. WANGANUI TOURISTS WIN BY 195 RUNS /Press Association). WANGONUJ, Jan. 26. Tlie cricket- match between the touring M.C.C. team and Wanganui was concluded at Cook’s Gardens on Saturday, the visitors winning by a margin of 195 runs. Wanganui opened its second innings stubbornly, and with one wicket down for 33 runs it appeared that there was a- strong possibility of the' team playing out- time. However. tho next five wickets were .taken cheaply for .15 runs, and the innings closed at 5-25 pan. with only 75 runs on the telegraph. The wicket was in good order throughout the match, and the outfield was fast. When play commenced in the morning AI.C.C. had 202 runs for two wickets (declared), and Wanganui had compiled 74 runs in the first- innings for the loss of- eight wickets. Sewell and Oliver continued Wanganui’s innings, the former making a credit-able showing with 33 to his credit before being stumped. Tlie total lor the innings wafcs- 130. AI.C.C- commenced their second .innings at- 12-16 p.m.. with a lead oi 72 nins, Griffiths and Powell, usually the taiLenders, opening. The termer V wicket- went for 21 runs after 15 minutes’ play. At the luncheon adjournment AI.C.C. had three wickets down, for 60 runs. AI.C.C- then lost three wickets cheaply, Lyttelton being caught belirind the wickeds by Wilson after making four runs and Langridge being -stumped by Wilson off Warnes before he had opened his score. There were then 84 runs oil the board.

Ali tch ell-I rmes joined Hardstaff, and immediately -settled down to score, but he fell to Warnes after scoring 10.

At this stage AI.C.C. had lost seven wjekets for 106, but the B-arhor-Hardstaff partnedship then yielded 52 runs and finally the innings was declared closed at 3.25 p.m. with 198 runs for eight wickets Wanganui proved unequal to the task of making 271 runs a- win or playing out- time.