Cahn’s Cricketers Bat Cannily in Eden Park Match

Northern Advocate, 18 March 1939, Page 11

Cahn’s Cricketers Bat Cannily in Eden Park Match

t Special to “Northern Advocate''] AUCKLAND, This Day

OIR JULIEN CAHN’S CRICKET SIDE. IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE EDEN PARK WICKET HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER, GAVE A RATHER UNINTERESTING EXHIBITION WHEN THE FINAL MATCH OF THE TOUR BETWEEN THE VISITING TEAM AND THE AUCKLAND REPRESENTATIVES WAS COMMENCED YESTERDAY.

; When stumps were drawn the visitors, who won the toss and batted first had lost four wickets for 318.

The Auckland bowling was accurate throughout, but it did not merit the exaggerated respect the visitors,were prepared to pay it.

When the opening visiting batsmen continued after the adjournment, a section of the spectators endeavoured to stir them to activity with ironical comment. Mudge lost his wicket when he moved out to play Vivian, missed, and was clean bowled. 105—1 —48.

Dempster was back in the pavilion in .the next over, one from Carson finding his pads in front, 109 —2 —56.

Jackson and HardstafT carried on

the latter being uncomfortable to Vivian who was flighting the ball well and varying his pace off the wicket, j Well placed singles and twos took j both batsmen into double figures. i Quick Bowling Changes! The Auckland captain swung the changes quickly prior to the tea ad-

Journment but the; batsmen, who had" : become much freer,': were not troubled j The score at the in-j terval was 202, t Jackson being 451 and HardstafT 46. \ J, Hardstaff and| : Jackson reached( their 50’s almost to-1 gether. The latterl lost his wicket in?i attempting a fore-"

ing shot off Matho- ’ son, Vivian picking up an easy catch at deep point. Hardstaff, who began to. open out, was nicely taken behind the wickets by Sale off Weir, 267—4—84. s Captain Most Attractive.

Oldfield settled down before attempting any real scoring shots, but Heane was -more attractive and played at the pitch of the ball from the start. With free driving, in spite of the fact that he was, unable to pierce a close set field, Heane impressed more than the batsmen who had preceded him. The score at stumps was 318 for four wickets, Oldfield being 38 and Heane 23.

Today’s Play

In the same sound and solid way was the baiting of Sir Julien Calm’s team continued at Eden Park this morning against the Auckland representative team. The weather, was windless and brilliant, and the attendance grew as the day went on. Cowie’ and Burke shared the Auckland- attack when the match was resumed, and the batsmen, Heane and Oldfield, immediately began a keen search for runs.

i With the, score at 348, Vivian replacj cd Burke, but the scoring rate went along smoothly, and Heane straight drove Cowie for a three. At 355 Heane was out . l.b.w. to Cowie, and a stubborn partnership, which had produced 88 runs, was broken. Watts came next, but, after getting seven, sent one straight back to Vivian. Maxwell, the English wicket-keeper, soon ran to double figures, and then pulled Matheson to deep mid-on, where Wallace dropped the catch. Carson came on to bowl, and, with a ball of perfect length, beat 01d--1101d.—404-7-70. Scores. — ENGLISH TEAM. First Innings. Dempster, Ibw., b Carson 56 Mudgo, b Vivian 48' Jackson, c Vivian, b Matheson 59 Hardstaff, c Sale, b Weir 84 N. Oldfield, b Carson 70 G. F. Heane 1.b.w., b. Cowie .... 44 E. A. Watts c and b Vivian .... 7 C. R. Maxwell, b Carson 28 T. P. Smith, c Carson, b Burke .. 7 W. E. Phillipson n.o 31 J. E. Walsh, c Carson, ta Burke .. 2 Sir Julien Calm, Ibw.. b Vivian .. 2 Extras 13 Total 456 Bowling; Carson took three for 32, Vivian three for 105, Burke two for 81, Weir one for 33,'Matheson one for 79, Cowie one for 92, Postles none for 16.