CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 3

CRICKET

N.Z. PLAYERS GOING HOME. JOINING LANCASHIRE LEAGUE. Wellington, Mar. 8. The three New Zealand cricketers who are taking part in Lancashire cricket this year leave Wellington by the Rotorua on Friday for England. W. E. Merritt is returning to the Righton Club, A. W. Roberts will play for the Church Club and I. B. Cromb for the East Lancashire Club. DRAW FOR JUNIOR GAMES. WICKETS AND UMPIRES IN NAPIER. The folio-wing is the draw, together with wickets and umpires, for the new junior grade cricket series to be commenced next Saturday afternoon at Nelson Park, Napier:— United A v. High School, No. 3 wicket, Messrs Hawke and Cameron. United B v. Swailes, No. 5 wicket, Messrs Jeffery and Aislabie. Technical 0.8. v. H. 5.0.8., No. 4 wicket, Messrs Lott and Girling. Technical Colts v. St. John’s, No. 7 wicket, Messrs McKcchnie and Phillips. Scinde v. Taradale, No. 6 wicket, Messrs Warwick and O’Brien. Umpires for the senior games commencing on March 18 are: —No. 1, Messrs Phillips and Campbell; No. 2, Messrs Wacher and O’Brien. TEAMS FOB SATURDAY. JUNIOR GRADE. The following will represent H. 5.0.8. juniors against United A at Nelson Park, Napier, on Saturday afternoon:— Mackinnon, Cox, Ennor, Brown, Wilson, Exeter, Lasher, Wagg, Griffin. Reed and Austin. The St. John’s team to play United B will be as follows:—Triggs (2), Thorne George, Lee, Mori, Falls, King, Rcdy, Thomson, Hill. HIGH SCHOOL TEAM. NAPIER AGAINST GISBORNE. The following team has been selected to play for the Napier Boys’ High School against the Gisborne High School, on Nelson Park No. 2 ground, on Friday and Saturday, commencing at 9.30 a.m. on Friday:—T. S. Mahony (captain), V. J. Palmer (vice-captain), J. G. Armitage, G. J. Bickerstaff, D. A. Younghusband, R. Morrisey, L. T. Boland, J- Butler, J. Hickey, A. S. Turner, E. Roljnson, D. R. Brown (twelfth man). Messrs G. Hawke and H. F. Stephenson will be the umpires. H.B. UMPIRES’ ASSOCIATION. SHORT RUN RULE Thj fortnightly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Umpires’ Association was held in Napier last evening. Mr J. W . Callaghan, the chairman, presided over Messrs J. J. O’Brien, W r . L. Dunn, lan Campbell, Wacher, Morrison, R. Lott, Reid, W. R. Aislabie, G. H. Brown, W. Girling and the secretary, Mr V. Hawke. Apologies for absence were receive! from Messrs H. V. Phillips, C Elmos and E. McKcchnie. An interesting discussion took place on the subject of “short runs,’’ and it was decided to hand to the press an interpretation published in a recent issue of “The Australian Cricketer,’’ which will doubtless be of interest and enlightenment to cricketers generally. The item reads as follows:- — There have been many inquiries about

the “short runs” interpretation given in our “Key to the Laws of Cricket” ou page twenty-five, where it is stated that if two short are called in four, none are scored, whereas one is scored if two short are called in three. The explanation is that one run is awarded in the case of tho three runs, as the batsmen have changed ends. Law 2 says that ba .men must “make good their ground from end to end,” and so if a batsman fails to ground his bat at one end, both runs, to and from that end, are not really countable, as he has not made good his ground for either. If the problem is worked out on paper it is seen that the only way in which it is possible for a batsman to score one run when two short have been called, is when he runs the first run correctly, and fails to make good his ground at tho* second and third ends If either batsman fails to make good his ground at the first and third ends each time, obviously no runs are scorable under Law 2. It seems as if the um piro should really call “four short,” or “three short” in the first instance. Where two are run, and one batsman is short at the turning end, the call should really be “two short.” One short should only be called under Law 2, when the batsmen backing up was out of his ground before the bowler began to deliver the ball. The M.C.C. has decided, Note 1, Law 2, that the striker need not be in the crease to make good from that end. AshleyCooper discussed this “two short” interpretation in the “English Cricketer Spring Annual, 1931,” and Mr P. F. Warner has personally vouched for tho accuracy of this interpretation given in our Key.