Cricket

Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 34, 29 November 1944, Page 5

Cricket

"" " —$> IIUITS HEAVY TASK With hard wickets and very fast outfields iu nearly all last Saturday's games -'batsmen were very hard on bowlers whose averages

suffered many a set back

The Hutt senior eleven had its first outing at the llasin Reserve this season and at the end of the

day's play were not in a very happy position. Old Boys batted lirst and took advantage of the good batting conditions to run up the god total of 2~)2 runs. Hutt started suc-

cessi'ully, securing the first two wickets for 3(> runs and the next at 77. Wiggs, however, became well set and

assisted by a couple of. missed chances, took the score along stead-

y. He was associated with Barber

and then Browne in half century partnerships, but at the fall of the seventh wicket Hutt had a chance of

dismissing their opponents for a reasonable score. These last two wickets proved difficult however, and the score reached 252 before the last man was out. Hutt in the closing half hour lost .wo wickets for under 30 runs and ire thus faced with the good score 230 to make next week. Should :onditions be as they were last Saurday, this is not an impossible task f resolute methods are adopted, but

t is a rare thing to get two Satur. lays running when conditions are all n favour of the batsman. However, he season is well under way now aid the local batsmen should be •unning into form. The side has asually produced some fine cricket .vhen up against matters and next Saturday will provide another good est of its ability in this respect..

Kilbirnie, second grade, outplayed he local team by .177 runs on the irst innings. The town team scord 279 runs and in a very feeble

lisplay Hutt just managed to pass .he century mark. It was only a ;ood effort by the last three men to jat that enabled Hutt to get as far is this as eight wickets were down or l! 2 runs when Lambert went in ind treated the bowling for what it vas worth. His example was folowed by Nightingale and Vogtherr, ,hese three adding 70 runs. The >atting of this team is very weak, a •egrettable feature from a clul joint of view as it is from this jrade that the senior team gets its •ecruits. The calibre of the batting io far this season has not produced i batsman approaching senior grade itandard.

The Third Grade team registered a larrow ]ivin on the first innings gainst "Varsity, the scores being 122 nd 104.

The Fourth Grade team lost by 245 o 131 runs on the first innings, lalz (44) batied well for Hutt. It s most unfortunate that this young oam was placed in this grade by lie Cricket Associaton. The team s purely a youths' team and was ntered in the Fifth Grade, but for iome inexplicable reason, it has been nade to play in the higher grade. A beginning was made with the Saturday morning matches for boys ast Saturday. Twenty-four teams divided into two grades—seniors and ' uniors—participated in the opening natches. Teams are being sponsored by the ollowing clubs and institutions at ♦resent: Trafalgar Park, Y.M.C.A., stop Out, Randwick League, Hutt, ketone, Celtic, Hutt Valley High School and Petone Technical High School. Any boys who wish to take mrt in these games should get into ..ouch with a member of the above clubs, preferably the one which :aters for the district in which he ives.