LEICESTER MATCH

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 16 June 1927, Page 7

LEICESTER MATCH

NEW ZEALANDERS’ BAD START.. FINE RECOVERY AIADE. BRIGHT BATTING BY DACRE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 16, 9.40 a.m. LONDON. June 15. The New Zealand cricketers commenced to-day a match against Leicestershire. Batting first, the Dominion representatives made 371, and at the end of the day Leicester had made 29 without the loss of a wicket. Leicester left out Geary, the test match bowler. Tho attendance was 1000. The visitors lost four wickets for 107 before lunch. Blunt and Mills started uncomfortably and only scored 26 ill the first half-hour. Blunt was taken at tho wicket when ho had reached 24 out of a total of 39. A brief collapse followed, two wickets falling for 19. Mills was caught in the slips and Dempster at mid-on. Lowry played the ball on to the wicket. The pitch- was good and did not account for the collapse. After lunch a change came over the game and the New Zealanders effected a fine recovery. First Page and McGirr stopped the rot by adding 102 for the fifth wicket in an hour and a-lialf. The former hit with the greatest of freedom and obtained nine boundaries. After this pair Dacre came to tho front with the brightest batting of tho day. In an hour and a-quarter he. rattled up 90, driving powerfully and cleanly in his best style. Two of his strokes went over the ropes and twelve more reached the boundary before ho‘ was caught. Merritt and Henderson gave a lot of troublo by putting on 56 for the last wicket in a partnership which lasted 35 minutes and in all the last three wickets added 136, bringing the total to 371. Leicester had a half hour’s batting without loss of a wicket. Details arc as follow: NEW ZEALAND.—First Innings. Blunt, c Sid well, b Snary 24 Mills, c Armstrong, b Snary 12 Dempster, c Skelding, b Astill ... 2 Lowry, b Snary 5 Page, c Sidwell, b Snary 74 McGirr, b Snary 56 Allcott, c Smith, b Shipman 17 Dacre, c Smith, b Bale 90 James, c Smith, b Armstrong ... 19 Merritt, c Smith, b Bale 35 Henderson, not out 19 Extras 18 Total 371 Bowling analysis: Shipman 1 for 49, Skelding 0 for 68, Snary 5 for 66, Astill 1 for 42, Bale 2 for 85, W. Smith 0 for 10, Armstrong 1 for 33. LEICESTERSHIRE.—First Innings. Shipman, not out Berry, not out 4 Extras 5 Total *for no wickets 29 —A. and N.Z. cable.