GREAT AGGREGATE SCORES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 January 1923, Page 3

GREAT AGGREGATE SCORES.

Whenever a large aggregate score is made, such as the 786 runs made by New South Wales against South Aus- ( tralia in the matcfi In Adelaide, specu- • lation is always rife as to how it stands . as a record. Although a mammoth I score, it has been exceeded on several occasions in inter-State matches, and in every instance by New South Wales. ! The following list shows all aggregates exceeding the present nuge score made by New South Wales : — I 918, v. South Australia, at Sydney, 1901 (the world's record). 839, v. Tasmania, at Sydney, 1909. 815, v. Victoria, at Sydney, 1909. 805, v. Victoria, at Melbourne, 1905. I 802, v. South Australia, at Sydney, 1 1920. ' In the record score of 918 there were five centuries, viz.:— S. E. Gregory,! 168; M. A. Noble, 153; L. O. S. Poi-. devin, 140; R. A. Duff, 119; and F. A. Iredale, 118. There were also five partnerships of over 100 runs. The number of centuries is also a record in first-class cricket. Victoria's highest score is- 724, against South Australia, at Melbourne, in 1921, while the English record is 887, made bv^ Yorkshire against Warwickshire in 1896.