Good Last-wicket Stand Helps Napier Team

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 68, 22 March 1937, Page 2

Good Last-wicket Stand Helps Napier Team

INTER-HIGH SCHOOL CRICKET From Our Own Correspondent. NAPIER, March 20. A good stand for the last wicket by Grainger and Robinson 6aved the Napier High School from a deficit in tho first innings in their 20th. annua) match with the Gisborno High School new being played at Napier. The position at tho luncheon adjournment today was that Napier, with a lead ol 13 runs on tho first innings, has taken five Gisborne wickets for 74 runs, leaving tho game, which is to be finished this afternoon, in an interesting position. Perfect weather and a good wicket favoured the Gisborne batsmen this morning, but tho batting was of a pooi standard. In tho last half-hour the fielding improved, and some smart work was seen, including a good catch near the boundary by Robinson, Details:— GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. First Innings. Allen, c Coutts, b Fox 4G Sim, hit wicket, b Josephs 15 Toroa, b Josephs 19 Smiler, c Bickerstaff, b Josephs .. 33 Harris, b Dean 25 McGregor, b Joseph 12 Fleming, b Dean 9 Lee, b Josephs 12 Porter, 1.b.w., b Dean 0 Sinden (not out) 0 Coxon, b Dean tJ Extras 22 Total 193 Bowling:—Josephs five for 64; Fox mo for 57, Dean four for 30, Robinson aon© for 30. Second Innings. Alien, o Bickerstaff, b Robinson ... 23 Sim, 1.b.w., b Josephs 2 Toroa, run out 17 Harris, c Fox, b Dean 0 Smiler, not out 19 McGregor, c Robinson, b Dean ... 3 Lee, not out 2 Extra* 7 Total for five wickets 74 NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL First Innings. ?ox, run out 0 Bickerstaff, c Porter, b Allen 44 I’ringham, c Fleming, b Alien 15 Humming, b Thompson 46 “outts, b Allen 46 steele, b Harris 3 Stevens, run out 2 dobinson, not out 17 Joseph, c Smiler, b Thompson 9 Grainger, c and b Lee 13 Extra® 5 Total 206 Bowling: Harris one for 20, Allen four for 34, Thompson two for 63, Leo one for 20