CRICKET

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4566, 8 November 1937, Page 5

CRICKET

TOWN AGAIN SUCCESSFUL. SIXTH WICKET PARTNERSHIP. The Town cricketers once again secured a fairly narrow victory over the Country side when the two teams met at Pio Pio last Saturday. To McKenzie lies the chief credit for Town’s victory—after taking five wickets for 15 runs, he hit up 45 in a fine innings before he retired. Country, who batted first, started off most auspiciously, and with Smith and Ronaldson in form had 73 in hand at the fall of the third wicket. Save for Neal (13), however, the incoming batsmen were soon dismissed and the innings ended with a total of 108 in hand. A rot developed after Town had lost their second wicket, and six wickets were soon down for 42. At this point Pitt and MacKenzie instituted a partnership that raised the score to 100 without further loss; and MacKenzie continued to raise his total to 45 before retiring when the. Town score stood at 123. The following are the detail scores:— COUNTRY.—First Innings. Jones, c Lawrence, b Hebden .. 11 * Smith, b Dinsdale 30 Ronaldson, b Dinsdale 29 Bilton, b Dinsdale 0 Glasgow, c Brainsby, b Boulton 4 R. Neal, not out 13 Rodger, c Martin, b MacKenzie 0 Black, c Boulton, b MacKenzie 0 Neal, c Pitt, b MacKenzie .... 7 Lowman, b MacKenzie 3 Glasgow, c Dinsdale, b MacKenzie 2 Extras 9 Total 108 Bowling: Dinsdale took three wickets for 22 runs, Brainsby none for 13, Hebden one for 29, Lawrence none for 12, Boulton one for 8, MacKenzie five for 15. TOWN. —First Innings. Boulton, b Rodger 9 Hebden, run out 17 Dinsdale, b Rodger 0 Cameron, b Ronaldson 7 Collins, std Smith, b Ronaldson 0 Brainsby, c Lowman, b Bilton . . 3 MacKenzie, retired 45 Pitt, std Smith, b Ronaldson .. 29 Sanderson, not out 1 * Martin, std Smith, b Ronaldson 4 Lawrence, b Neal . 1 Extras .. .. 7 Total 123 Bowling: Rodger took two wickets Tor 55 runs, Ronaldson four for 36, Bilton one for 8, R. Neal one for 18.