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Hutt News, Volume 9, Issue 29, 24 December 1935, Page 5

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Grade matches willnot be resumed until January 11. Most players feel that the spell is over long. Certainly we can see no good reason why lower grade matches should not have been played on Saturday last. Players a.** prone to take up some other sport to 1111 in time, and often lose their keeni'..v for cricket, with the result *hat lower grade teams have to scratch fo* players during the latter half of tiff seuioi], : llow tile Flayers are Paring. 1') ihe senior team which has excel- [ *rt prospects of: championship hoawrr, ihorc* are players who arc meeting with i good measure of successwith bat and null. It is mainly to these numbers .hat the team owes its present posi;ion. Boss aud MeLeod and, to a lesser ;.vtent, Aim and Kotherham, have cmiributed their quota in both departjicnts. McLeod, counting the present uatch with Pet one, heads both batting uid bowling averages With 108 for Bating and 11 wickets at 11.5. His scores with the bat are 0, 08 not out, tnd -JOuot out, Koss has taken 15 \tricicts at u cost of 20.6 runs per w; irid has a batting average of 55.25. He uis failed in the latter department durng the last two games, showing a compete reversal of form. His average viili the ball has suffered severely beause of dropped catches. Aims' bating average for two completed innings s 51.3, his scores being 71 and 35. He eisteregd a good bowling performance gainst Midland, who scored 382, taking for 45. Kotherlnim has notched 57. in wo visits to the crease aud bowled veil against University, 3 for 52.! "udd has taken the most wickets, 13' at , cost of 19.8 runs each. His average uggests that he is not bowling so wtell his year. Champnoss is not meeting vitli any success with bat or balL laniilti'ii too, is having a lean time 'or an opening batsman his figures are ioor, a total of 3-' runs for three innngs. Monteath, average 40, and Stehr 0 each having batted .three times, have hown that they are liable to make uns against good bowling. Blamires ,nd Tattersal, who have batted once •nlv, complete a list of batsmen who hould make any team work hari to lismiss. Jn the University match the earn showed that it had a tail. Champiess, Fowler and Judd arc not dependible batsmen aud this fact may cause he skipper some anxious moments ».f he earlier batsmen fail. In the second grade eleven the form if most of the players is a bit in and iut. Wall and Hissc-ns have been the nost consistent run-getters. The htteT las not yet been dismissed under dou>lo figures, his tallies being 15, 25, 24, ind 28. Pegler th c veteran of the team s not batting too well, his average >eing just under 14. In thc bowling, C. Vluir has taken the most wickets, 15 it a cost of 17.4 runs each. It appears hat another steady trundler would •treugthen this team. In the Junior A's three batsmen tand out. for consistency—Trapp, Kllninsfer and McMahon. Thc average of iach player are as follows: Trapp 47 25, iilmiuster 44, McMahon 38. The Inter has batted three times and the two :ormcr five times. In the matter of ;trokc play Kilininster is the best of hese players. All are good batsmen n the making. In the bowling no one )layer has gained any marked success. Cilminster, who had exceptional figures ii thc Third and Junior B2 teams, has )een used very sparingly, bowling foureon over for 2 wickets and 48 runs. The outstanding batsman in the Junor B2 team is Rudnian. His average s 47.4 for five completed innings. Kilninster, Inch, Lynch, and Warnes have jowlcd well. The three first named mve been promoted A iirade. Warnes ias taken 9 for 105 in the two roai•hes in which he has participated. Kilnister took 7 for 38 in his only appearnice for this team while luch took 5 'or 11 and 7 for 24. The Third Grade team, although cot loing too well has swnc promising youngsters in its ranks. TAinslade and Jorbctt are the most dependable batsuen each having an average of mote than twenty. Sullivan is easily the nost successful bowler,having taken -0 ivickets at a cost of 10.05 runs a-piece. In thc Social Urade thc club maintains two teams. The No. 1 team has several good all-rounders, thc most suc:essful of these being Heap who has a batting average of 49 and has collected 12 wickets for 140 runs. Hunt lias the best bowling figures—2o wickets for 231 runs. P. Judd is a batsman in form having an average of 31. Neazor who scored heavily last season has to date scored 20 runs in three visits to thc crease. In the No. 2 team the two outstanding players arc Andrews and Ward. The former has been very successful with the ball, having bagged 32 wickets. for 340 runs, an average of 10.81. A batting average of 21 indicates that he is a very useful player. Ward has a batting average of 32 -for five completed innings and has taken (5 for B<> with the ball.