Auckland Colt J. Worall Bats Well

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 3

Auckland Colt J. Worall Bats Well

! HAMILTON, Fri. (Sp.)— A century by J. Worrall was mainly responsible for a first innings win for the Auckland Colts cricket team over Waikato in the two-dav match which concluded at Hamilton yesterday. The Colts made 204 (Worrall 113, Deane 19, Hollywood 19, Hayes 13, Brooker 13, Postles 11) and 119 for four wickets (Worrall 51 not out, Nicholson 30. Tucker 15, Ellis 11, Deane not out 10), and Waikato had 190 and 168 for six wickets declared (Aitken 53, McMahon 59, Barton 12 not out, Schroeder 17, Higginson 10). Wavell And Cricket

LONDON, Thu.—Field-Marshal Earl Wavell, at a dinner at the Buccaneers’ Cricket Club in London, referred to the remarks he made at Aberdeen about cricket being a waste of time, but in no spirit in recantation, says The Times. Lord Wavell said he believed there was a lack of proportion in test matches—they lasted too long and were too competitive.

Fifty years ago as a rich and leisured nation, Britain could afford to play these games. The last thing he would do would be to attack cricket, he added. There had been only two things in India in which Moslems and Hindus worked together—the Army and cricket.