CRICKET. HAWERA V. PATEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 65, 24 November 1880, Page 3

CRICKET. HAWERA V. PATEA.

This was the return match of the seaeon, played at Patea on Saturday last, and resulted in another defeat for Fatea. Time did not permit of both innings being Concluded, and the win was reckoned on the Brab xnmngßi the figures of which •were, Patea 26, Hawera 47 ; majority 21. The small score made by the losers in the first innings created great surprise ; there •seemed a fatality in the rapidity with wfiioh wicket affier wicket went down. Their second essay showed more of their real form, 70 being their total. In the first innings of the Hawera eleven, the total of 47 included a contribution of 28 from the captain's bat. None of the others could make a stand against Petch's howHpg, which tvas well on the spot. Ki&<XtCQt<Z aISQ materially assisted, the 6«Hfc— t&sragb. «& t&s sacrifice <jf a wicket or two— by Btolen runs. His rapidity between the wickets was as wonderful as his hairbreadth escapes from being run out. In Hawera's second innings, five wickets were lost for 44 runs, leaving them five runs behind on the day's play, and five wickets to fall. The fielding of both elevens was very close, and the long grass also kept down run getting. Two Blight accidents occurred to Bayly and Fraser — neither from the fault of the wicket, which played very truly. The honr o5 cbxoTaenbmg ■was fixed for 10 a.m., but it was an hour later before a start was made. . The Hawera captain won the toss, and decided. to put his opponents in. Etching and Homer took the batting first, Bayly and Southey cominehcing the attack. Ab before mentioned, no one could make a stand, and the innings was soon over for the small 6COT6 of '26 runs, oi which Dixon made 6. Hawera then went in, but failed to do much good against Petch's bowling. Riddiford batted carefully for his excellent score of 28. The next highest was 4,

and there were four " ducks " hi the innings. Patea-, 21 behind, followed on, and put together 70, bringing their total to 96. Of this, Read got 15, and Pringle 12. Heen'an was unfortunately run out through a misunderstanding. It was five o'clock when Hawera commenced their second innings, and it was most probable that they would win by wickets, or that the game would not be concluded. The latter was the case. Riddiford and Bayly each played well for their scores of 10 and 20. The following are the rail scores : — patea. lstinningß. 2ndmningk. , Kitching, b Southey... lbParrington 1 Homer,. c Southey, b c Cunningham 'Bayly 1 b Bayly ... 9 Heen'an, b Southey ... 1 run out 2 Read, c JFowler, b cßiddiford.b b Southey 2 Parrington... 15 Petcfi, run out 1 b Bayly 7 Pringle, b Southey... 0 hit wicket> b Fowler ... 12 Dixon, c JJiddif ord> b c . Innes, b i Bayly .-. '6 Parrington '5 j 1 Jacomb, IW, b Bayly 1 b Southey ... 7 Taplin, b Bayly 1 cßiddif ord, b Southey ... 0 Daseht, b Southey ... 1 not out 0 Tennent, not out 4 b Bayly 0 Extras 1 12 Total i 26 70 HAW&UA. Flint, bPetch 4 b Petca ..».. 3 Irmes, c Read, b Pitching 0 Pamngton, b Petch... 1 bDasent 2 Riddiford, not out ... 28 run out 10 Bayly, c Heenan, b c Dasent, b Kitching 1 Petch 20 Cunningham, b Fetch 4 c Bead b Fetch 2 Frasev, run oat St Wanklyn, b Petch ... 2 Lysaght, b Petch. 0 not out 1 Southey, run out 0 not out 2j i Fowler, run out 0 Extras 5 4> I Total 47 44