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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5

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THE PLUNKET SHIELD. .AUCKLAND V. WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, This Day. 'The final match to determine whether Auckland or Wellington shall hold the H-Sunkst Shield for the season commenced on the Basin Reserve yesterday aa ;perfect weather. Wellington had good fortune with the toss, and Bad ifirst use of the Napier soil wicket, which played very truly. The home mAe {took advantage of their oppor- . turiity by running up a score of 384 f#r -s'ix wickets. A feature of the day"s play was the sound defensive innings -of 175 by Kortlang, who was at {the Wickets for 326 minutes, never giving a chance. The brightest batting of the day was that of Dempster, who shaped like a player, of class, hitting up 62. Collins (45) and Hiddleston (34) also contributed useful scores. The Auckland bowling -was steady rather than difficult, but at no stage of the. , innings could it be said to have been ! collared. The details are as follows: f r WELLINGTON. ! i

. first,. Innings. F, T. Badcock., b Allcott 0 J. S. Hiddleston, c Rountree, b .5nedd0n'............ 34 B. J. Kortlang, not out 214 C. S. %> Player 62 7). S: Collins, c Daere, b Smith .. 45 H. M. McGirr, c Frater, b Smith 14 E. A. McLeod," c -Allcott, b Anthony .;......,...... 16 JT. Lambert, c b Player 33 James, b Allcott 0 Hevder.son, run out 1 JBrice, e. Rountree/ b Player 10 Extras 18 n ■■ Total > 477 Bowling analysis.—Allcott, 2—88; Player, 3—107? Anthony, 1—0; Snedden, I—*s; Smith, 2—65; Dacro, 0— 19; Cooper, 0—23, At the luncheon adjournment Auelj> land had nine runs on foi* the loss of one wicket, Mills having bee?i fowled by Badeoek for one run. v . j