NEARING 1000 RUNS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 2

NEARING 1000 RUNS

TINDILL’S RECORD IN PLUNKET... SHIELD 1 Doited Press Association 1 WELLINGTON. 30th December. E. W. Tindill, the Wellington captain, requires another 48 runs to reach 1000 runs in Plunket Shield matches Tindill began playing for Wellington in the 1932-33 season, scoring a century in his first match against Auckland,

thus becoming one of the few players who have compiled a centnry in their first Plunket Shield game. Up to the end of last season his Plunket Shield figures were: 24 innings, 2 not outs, 858 runs, average 39. This season he began with 46 against Otago, and his 48 not out against Canterbury brings him well within striking distance of 1000 Tindill toured with the New Zealand team in 1936-37 as wicketkeeper-bats-man In this connection it is interesting to note that Wellington has supplied j the wicketkeepers to all New Zealand teams which have left the Dominion since the Great War. T. C. Lowry, the present New Zealand selector, captain of the 1926 and 1931 teams to tour England and manager of the 1936 team, was the ’keeper in the side which toured Australia in 1925-26, captained by W. R. Patrick. K. James and Lowry were the ’keepers in the 1926 and the 1931 teams, and Tindill and Lowry in 1937. SHEFFIELD SHIELD 0 P A —Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright 1 MELBOURNE, 30th December. In a Sheffield Shield cricket match against South Australia, Victoria, in their first innings, scored 362 for three wickets (Gregory 71, Sides. 44. Barnett 50. Hassett not out 161).