INTERPROVINCIAL CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12468, 12 January 1904, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL CRICKET.

CANTERBURY V. AUCKLAND. AN EXCITING FINISH. VISITORS DEFEATED BY TWO RUNS. j i BARCLAY PERFORMS TIIF "HAT TRICK." .lilE interprovincial cricket match, Canterbury v. Auckland, was concluded at the Do- ! main yesterday, in lovely weather, before ! a fair attendance. Had the public known • that, the- match would provide tho most ex- i citing finish of perhaps any game witnessed \ on the local cricket field, there would doubt- : less have been a very much larger number ' present. As it was, Auckland snatched a [ narrow victory, winning by two runs. The j local eleven resumed their second innings : with two wickets down for 83, and were all j disposed of for 174. Canterbury requiring I 183 to win, knocked up 142 for five wickets, , and seemed to have the match well in hand, • However, Barclay performed the " hat trick"' I at this stage Itwo of the wickets being clean j bowled), and things assumed a very different complexion. Tho backbone of the visitors' j defence was broken, for the whole 10 wickets | fell for ISO, or three runs short of the num- j ber they wanted to win. Barclay's fine performance undoubtedly reversed tha fortune | of tho game. Mr. Chas. MeKinuey took tip | i a collection for him, the public- subscribing ! about £5 10s, which was presented to the 1 Parnell professional on the grandstand by ; Mr. C. W. Hemery, at the close of the match, i the recipient getting a great ovation. Lun- ; cheon and afternoon tea were kindly proI vided by lady friends of the association, i whose healths were toasted in the pavilion j i at the former meal. ! THE PLAY. | With two wickets down for 83, Auckland's ; second innings was resumed by D. Hay (26; and -Mason (4), the uot-outs, play coinmeuc- ! ing at a-quarter to eleven a.m. Callaway ! and Howell bowled. Roth batsmen played with confidence on a last wicket, but the | trundling was superior, and run-getting was ; not too speedy. The first- century went up ; as the result of an hour and a-haif's stay at | the wicket. Nine runs later Hay, who had increased his overnight score to 39, got in I front of one from Callaway in trying his j favourite pull stroke: Three for 109. KalI lender tilled the vacancy, and started to force j the pace. He hit a trio off his first from I Callaway, and made two big boundary hits . oft' Howell's next over. . Collaring the bow- | ling, the Auckland skipper had 15 to his | credit after batting ten minutes. Mason was ; getting the least of the bowling. The board showed 130 after an hour and fifty minutes' j play. At 134- Sims replaced Howell at tho j pavilion end, Kallender getting two singles ! otf him, and Mason a boundary (a nice cut), | and a single, tho over producing seven, and ] sending 140 up. As tho result of just two ! hours at the wicket, Auckland's score was j 145. Then Kallender was beaten by a good | ball from Callaway, which brcko in from the | off, and took his leg bail. He had i knocked up 24 in twenty minutes: Four for j 145. MacCormick joined Mason, who added i two couples to his score, bringing it to 25, i and then Weston hold him in the slips off ■ Sims: Five for 149. N. B. Lusk followed. . MacCormick opened his innings with a raI ther lucky flick past tho wickctkecpor off i Callaway, off which four were run, sending j up 150. Lusk started with a nice cut for | a brace. The wickot was beginning to wear, | and the trundlers were ablo to get a good I deal of work on the ball. Sims found a spot , and utilised a tricky leg break, occasionally I sending down a lob. Both he and Callaway j were now treated with respect. An hour I after resuming, 77 had been addI ed to the overnight score. At lbO Whitta, ; at niid-on, made a good try at a very hot J drive from Lusk, but could not hold it, a ; brace resulting. Two balls later Lusk, who i had made eight, attempted to pull Callaway ; to leg, and was cleaned bowled: Six for : 162. H. B. Lusk joined MacCormick, who ; was playing cautiously, and attempting to i stay the rot which seemed to have s-et in. ! Lusk adopted similar tactics. At the fall ■ of the previous wicket, Howell had gone on J in . place of Sims, and in his second over I Lusk, after making two, tipped one to Cal- ; laway at short-slip: Seven for 167. Sloman 1 filled the broach, but before the score had b»en . increased, Callaway spread MacCormick's ' stumps: Eight for 167. Barclay partnered ! Sloman, who begajr to liven matters up by ! hitting Howell over that bowler's head for I a fiver, bringing 170 up. Barclay drove the I samo trundler to the off for a couple, and : then fell to him off a smart catch behind 1 the wickets by Boxhall : Nine for 174. W. . Mills, the Inst man in, got there in time tc ! see Callaway clean bowl Sloman. The inn- . ings thus closed for 174. ! Requiring 183 runs to win Canterbury ; opened their second innings at half-past \ twelve with Sims and Weston, who faced the j bowling of Cliff and Barclay. Sims got a ! couple of brace off Cliff's first over. Wcstor j got Barclay's first past Sloman at long slir. i for two, and survived an appeal for leg be . i fore off the fifth ball of the over. Botl: ; bowlers had the batsmen in difficulties, ant '■ the first quartet of an hour only put on nine . ■ runs. Cliff then got Weston leg before : , ; One for 9. Callaway filled the vacancy ant I opened with an uppish stroke for a singlr ' . towards point. In Barclay's next over Cal ' . laway drove one to flu. oft for four and thoi ' ! ran a short one. Sims got the same bowlei ' ! round to leg for a boundary, and Sim: ' i brought 20 up with a single, the over thu: i ■ yielding 10. The batsmen began to run foi i every possible chance, Barclay proving :■ [ rather expensive, and Oliff pitching them u] • ; too short. Twenty-five minutes' play sav [ . 30 on the board. At 35 N. B. Lusk went ot , '. in place of Barclay. Three byes had beoi , : added at lunch time. ; I After the adjournment W. Mills took tin . | ball from Oliff, Callaway leg-glanoing tin L ! last of the over for a single, sending 40 up ! Lusk sent down a full pitcher to Callaway i 'who smote it to the log boundary, and twi [ . balls later drove the same bowler to the of J . boundary. The half-century appeared oi • ; the board as the result of 40 minutes' play > - Sims bringing it up with a pretty leg hoo! 3 , otf Lusk for two. The batsman got the nex l ■ away for throe in the same direction. On .) ' run Inter Callaway, who had made 27 I opened his shoulders to a tricky one fror j Mills, which found his stumps: Two for 5i i Strange joined his skipper, to whom Lus ' sent down a fast maiden. Mills' next to th 1 j newcomer was also unproductive. Strang " j shaped a little uneasily at first, especially a 1 j Lusk. The first hour's play took the scor 'i j to 69. At this stage Barclay was put on a a j Mills' end. His first ball beat Strange an - j went away behind for two, the- batsman plat I ing his third through tho slips for a trie c i Sims got the nexi away to leg, four bain s ] run off the stroke. At 80 Cliff replace 1 ' Lusk, five being hit off the over. Scorin I was steady, 90 going up as tho result of a j houi and a-tjuarter's play. Two runs late ] Sims, wdio had played a fine, useful inning ■ 1 '. without giving a chance, was clean bowle s ' for 39 by Barclay: Three for 92. Cllivie ii | partnered Strange, and runs came siowlj t I Barclay varying a good deal and having th 1 batsmen iD trouble. Ollivier sent up th e ; century with a single off Cliff after an hoi e j and 35 minutes' play. Ollivier cut Oliff f< v i four, the next ball narrowly missing h e ; wicket. The score slowly mounted to 101 , ! when a double change was made in t! ,' j bowling, D. Hay going on at Cliff's em ■'_ i Sloman replacing Barclay. Both new bow . ! ers sent down a maiden, fi-e overs on ' ' ! producing one run. Then Strange lashe . i out at Hay, and with a couple sent up 11 \' | The batsmen commenced to liven things u; , both playing the bowling with more con: g ; donee. The board showed 120 for two hour ■e i play. At this stage H. B. Lusk was trie le j in lieu of Sloman, five coming off the ove j W. Mills went on at Hay's end at 128. S I runs later Strange's good innings was ende ; when he had made 31, by a smart catch j point by N. B. Lusk off W. Mills: Four f ie ■ .154. Boxshall followed. Five runs we '•)■, , added when Barclay went on again in pla >0 ; of 11. B. Lusk. The left-hander sent i ' the 140 with a single off Barclay. Cante in bury now only required 43 to win, and Bo 1S ; shall shaped as though he had gone in to g e " them. In lashing out at one from Barela rj t however, ho lifted it to Mason at ext 10 cover, the fieldsman bringing off a fii l -' \ catch : Five for 142. Wigley followed, b . a ' Barclay's next ball clean-bowled him, mm '" ' to the delight of Auckland enthusiast I ; whose hopes began to rise: Six for 14 t" ; Whitta partnered Ollivier, but amidst tl wildest excitement Barclay performed tl ; hat trick" by clean-bowling him: Sevi foi 142. Canterbury's chance now look so decidedly less rosy, and as Reese went in of were still required to pull off the vioto is with only three wickets in hand. Each bat ,ro man knocked a single off Mills' next ove :ig Reese shaped uncomfortably to Barcla is- who sent him down a maiden. Tho sco be crept up by degrees, Reese bringing up 1 ip by cutting Barclay to the boundary. ( he livier drove Mills for a brace, bringing tl li- total to 30 short of Auckland's. Rcose se uo one of Barclay's up to Mason at SqUare-le ti- but the fieldsman missed the catch and fe Three resulted. A life was also given

Ollivier off Barclay's next, H. B. Lusk failing to take him in the slips, a brace being run. At 158 Oliff replaced Mills, Ollivier getting him round to lag for three, sending lbO up. H. 15. Lusk failed to stop one at slip, Reese adding two more to the score a.-, a result. The visitors now wanted but 21 to win. They had been two hours and three-quarters at the. wickets for 163. Old- ! vier glanced Oliff prettily through '.tie slips \ for a couple, and then sent a hard one to j W. Mills at mid-en. He had made I'j In- t good cricket: Etg-it for 166. Wanting still 17 to win Frankish joined Reese, and w.th- , stood the rest of Cliff's over. The excite-! ment was great at this >ta.re. The local , men smartly fielded every ball, and Barclay's ! next over only yielded one run. The score mounted by singles to 172. when Reese got a three through the slips. Frankish survived lan appeal for leg-before off Barclay. At, i 175, when the visitors wanted to win I Mills went on in place of Oliff. The spooj tators were now watching every stroke with ] bated breath. Reese got Mills away ft r a I brace, making the total, five behind AuckI land's, and then, amidst renewed ••xfitement, i he got leg-before to Mills, with 20 to his I credit: Nine for 177. Howell, the last man, ! went in, Canterbury requiring but six to in. | X. B. Lusk. went on at Barclay's end. end J Frankish cut him for three, bringing ISO up i The excitement was now intense. Howell \ faced Lusk, and in attempting a run was I run out through, a smart piece of fielding by ! MacCormick, at, mid-on. Schmoll disturbing ; the bails before the bat-man could get bar's. I Auckland thus won one of the closest game.; : evei witnessed on the Domain by the narrow I margin of two runs. I The following are the scores: — I Auckland, first innings 162 ! Canterbury, first innings lbl j AUCKLAND.Second Innings. Schmoll, c Weston, b Callaway It Oliff. c and b Frankish 32 ! V). Hay, llnv, h Callaway 39 I Mason, c Weston, b Sims ... ... ... 2ti ' Kallender, b Callaway 'l'< MaeCoriniek, b Callaway ':' N. B. Lusk, b Callaway 8 H. B. Lusk, c, Callaway, b Howell ... 2 Sloman, b Callaway 5 Barclay, c Boxshall, b Howell 2 W. Mills, not our, 0 Extras 1+ . Total 171 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Callaway ... 21.1 5 07 6 Howell ... 18 5 5* 2 Strange ... 3 - 0 16 0 Sims 5 0 20 1 Frankish ... 2 1 5 1 CANTERBURY.—Second Inning-,. Sims, b Barclay 39 Weston, lbw, b 01 iff ?. Callaway, b W. Mills 27 Ollivier, c Mills, b OlifT 4C Strange, c H. B. Lusk, b Mills 31 , Boxshall, c Mason, b Barclay ... ... 3 Wigley, b Barclay 1* W'hitta, b Barclay ! Reese, lbw, b Mills 2C Frankish, not out !: Howell, run out ( Extras li Total ISC ', BOWLING ANALYSIS. Overs. Mdus. Runs. Wkts. Barclay ... 19 5 57 4OlilV 15 1 '13 2 ' N. B. Lusk ... 8 3 18 d 1 D. Hay 3 1 6 0 ' Mills 12 1 29 3 I Sloman ... 2 1 7 0 H. B. Lusk ... 2 0 8 0 I