CRICKET FEAT
BAIL SENT FLYING 60 YARDS MAY BE DOMINION RECORD [United Press Association) WANGANUI, This Day. A feat that may be a record for New Zealand was achieved by J. Wilson, a South Taranaki bowler in a match against Wanganui. Bowling L. Jones, one of Wanganui’s opening batsmen, Wilson, a right hand medium pace bowler, sent a ball more than 60 yards. The ball clipped the top of the stumps and the bail flew past the wicketkeeper, who was standing well back, landed on the asphalt track running roum’ the oval and bounced through the fence on to the embankment. New Zealand figures for long travels by bails are not available, but Wisden’s Almanack, the cricketer’s bible, gives the record for any match as 83 yards 1 foot 9 inches by A. O. Burrows, f Newton against North-west Hobart, in Hobart, Tasmania on 21st November, 1935. The first class cricket record is 67 yards 6 inches by R. D. Burrows, for Worcester against Lancashire, in Manchester in 1911.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 December 1940, Page 6
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169CRICKET FEAT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 December 1940, Page 6
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