CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17663, 27 December 1920, Page 7

CRICKET.

i I PLUXKET SHIELD MATCH. ' AUCKLAND V. HAWK K' S BAY. ' __ I I HOLDERS MAKE 557. i ! , j SNEDDEN BROTHERS' CENTURIES. i File first Piunket Shield match of the I season wis commenced at- Eden Park on i | Saturday, betweeg Hawke's Bay and Auck- ] ; land, t'no holders of the trophy. The woa- , - tner was fine and the wicket in excellent I I oruer There -was a good attendance of j j spectators and they were treated to some i excellent cr:cket. Auckland won the toss and e ei ted to bat their first innings, knock- , mg up a scor*. of 537 runs. Whei* stumps i ™ ere drawn the visitors had one wicket • down for 13. From the commencement" the ; Auckland batsmen played bnghi, crisp ! ; cr *cket and the first century was reached ! i in an hour, the scoring being consistently i ; good for t.ie remainder of the innings. Is. ' i C. Snedden, the captain of the Auckland j ! team, was in his best form, making 13' J. He 1 played a line game, his chief scoring stroke J : t>emg an otf drivt?. All his strokes, how- I I e 7 er> w ®re clean and he only gave one I cnance before reaching tils centuiy. His ' f?.?!f tne ' r ' 5 ? , w ith S. (jr. bmith resulted in j :—• ruus being added to the score. The | made 91 and as usual gave a tine exI nibition. He was very careful at the com- : i mencement and did not score nearly as last : as Snedden. However, his placing was es- ; eel lent and anything loose went to the boundary C. A. Snedden marked his entry into . 1 lunke-t Shield matches by making 119. He ' played a cautious and though he | has not the variety of strokes that his bro- ; ther can command, he is a very sound, bats- i man and should prove a great asset to the I Auckland representative team. Gillespie, I who was also making his first appearance in ' big cricket, played a most attractive innings | m compiling 42. Garrard, who made two , more runs than Gillespie, was also in fine ! form. The Hawke's Bay team was lucky in | getting rid of Hemus tor 13. He stepped ; back to play one from Stevens, and hit his j wicket. The visitors are not particularly j strong in bowling. O'Connell being the best of the half-dozen tried. He gets plenty of I work on to the ball, and this, with a good ; length, makes him difficult to play. The j team, however, deserves tho greatest praise ; for tneir fielding, which was good through- > out. As can be gathered from Auckland's ! score, they had plenty of running about, but j they seemed as keen at the end of the day ! as at the commencement. The match cer- | tainly deserved a great deal better patronage j than it received. Auckland Opens Innings. Horspool and Anthony opened the batting for Auckland, the former taking strike to Hindmarsh. Each batsman scored singles, ooid Anthony finished the over with a pull to the leg boundary. O'Connell went on at the other end, and after a couple of singleß Anthony sent him to the pavilion fence, and then drove him to the on for a. brace. In Hindmarsh's nest over Anthony hit him tor : a 4 and a 3 in succession, and '20 appeared j after 10 minutes' play. The batsmen .con- , tinued to score freely, and 40 was hoisted after 20 minutes' play, Anthony having JO to his credit. Horspool hooked O Gonnell to the boundary, and on-drove him to the pavilion fence, and 50 appeared after _o minutes' play. Napier then * e P lac ®° Hindmarsh at the western end. arid Anthony cut his second ball _ to tne boundary. He scored another gjngie but mishit the second ball of Napier s next over and it -went straight ud m the air. Love, the wicket-keeper. making an easy 55 —1 —37. Anthony had been at the crease half an hour, and had given a eood display. N C. Snedden filled the vacancy, and after Horspool had scored a boundary and a_ three off Stevens, he tried to lift the same bowler out of the ground and was clean bowled. 65 2—25. Smith joined Snedden. and a great partnership resulted. The scoring became slower, and SO was hoisted after _ 4o minutes' play. Each batsman obtained boundaries ofi Napier, and this -with singles, placed the first century on the board, an hour being occupied in its compilation. Both batsmen had now settled down, and runs came more quickly. 150 being reached 25 minutes later. Snedden notched his half' century a little later, and, Smith wa« then 42. They had both been at the -wickets about half an hour Smith was playing a great deal more cautiously than his partner. "When the luncheon adjournment was taken at one o'clock the total was 200—Snedden 74. Smith 60. Snedden Bats Freely. On resuming Snedden continued to score much more quickly than his partner, and reached his century after an hour and forty minutes' play. The total at this stage was 247. and Sm'th was 70. The latter then_ hit three successive fours off O'Brien, but a little later -was clean bowled by O'Connell. He had been at the wickets nearly two bourß. _ His strokes included one 6 and nine 4's. 287—3—91. Hemus followed and opened brightly. the third century being reached after three hours and 10 minutes' batting. Snedden being 136. The latter added only three more runs to his total -when he lifted one to O'Brien at mid-on and the latter accepted. 316—4—139. Snedden, who had batted for two and a-halt hours, gave a chance when he was 70 to O'Connell at mid-off, but the latter failed to hold the ball. He gave another chance about the same spot when well over his century but it was a rather difficult one. Otherwise his innings was faultless.- His total included 20 boundaries. Garrard followed, but almost immediately Hemus stepped back to play one from Stevens and hit his wicket. 316—5—13- C. A. Snedden filled the vacancy and at the tea adjournment the score was 3SO. Garrard 36, and Snedden 25. The fourth century was rcacihed shortly after resuming but only half a dozen more runs were obtained when Garrard lifted the bail into the air and Hindmarsh. who wa9 at mid-on, rushed across and held it- 406 6—44. The partnership had put on 90 runs. Gillespie was the newcomer, and another ■ good stand was made, the total being carried to 510 before he was bowled by O'Connell. Snedden was then 102 and had ta.k&n just on two hours to reach the century. Rowntree ■ followed and the total was 525 when he was ■ bowled by Napier. Player joined Snedden and the latter stepped out to drivo r Napier and was promptly stumped by Love. E3O 9—119. He had been st the wickets two hours and a-quarter. Coates was the last baosman and after he had contributed six runs he was caught in the slips by Stevens, tile innings closing: at 5.30 for 537 runsJacobsen and Cane opened the innings r visitors at 5.45, # the latter taking: : to Coates- Two singles were scored off the over and then Jaoobsen was clea.n i Dolled by the second ball from Smith. , r. 1 V, Bishop followed and played out time, the score being_l3 when stumps were - drawn for the day. Scores: — AUCKLiAXD.—First Tunings. Anthony, c. X/ove> b. a pier . 37 • Horspool, b. Stevens . . . or , ; Smith, b. O'Connell . " * ' | N. C. Snedden, c. O'Brien, b. O'Conneli 133 i • Hemus, b. .... 23 • I 5-., Garrard, o. Hindmarsh, b. O'Conneli 44 < Gillespie, b. O Connell . . 42 ■ ; Row-iitre©, b. Napier . . . . ] j , C. A. Snedden, st. Love. b. Napier ! I 119 j Coates, c. Stevens, b. O'Connell . . s j Plaver, not out . " 2 [ Extras I jg Total 537 Bowling Analysis.—O'Connell took five wickets for ISO runs, Napier thre«» for 80 1 Stevens two for 128, O'Brien none for 48, . Jacobsen none for 43, Hindmarsh none for HAWKE'S BAY.—First Innings. Cane, -not out . . . . . , . _ 2 Jacobsen. b. Smith . . . . . , ] ] 1 Bishop, not out . . . . .. .. il TotaJ for one wicket . . . . . . 13 The match will be continued at 11 a.m. to-dav. GOVERNMENT HOUSE MATCH. A cricket eleven representing Government House played a match against a team representing the Auckland Cricket Association at Eden Park on Friday afternoon, the latter winning by 19 runs and one wicket after a most interesting game. The Government House team batted first and made 143, , the Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, contri- , buting 8. His Excellency is Quite a good batsman and while at the wickets kept the fieldsmen busy stopping hi 3 drives and leg swings. Gillespie was the principal batsman, making 59 in good style. Auckland made 162 runs for nine wickets, Flynn being top scorer with 31. Scores: — 1 GOVERNMENT HOUSE L 5 Curtis, b. Baker . . . , . . 3 j Gillespie, b. Baker 59 Lord Jellicoe, b Baker 8 • Rowntree, c. sub., b. Baker . . . . 10 t Jones, c. Wilson, b. Baker . . . . 4 Papworth, b. Baker . . 7 Howden. c. sub. b. H. Wilson . . . . 22 , Bellamy, b. H. Wilson 0 • C. Badeley. c. Kelly, b. Baker . . . . 26 ) Mundy, c. and b. Baker . . . . . . 1 ■j C. A. Snedden, not out 2 1 Extras 1 S Total ' 143 Bowling Analysis.—Baker took eight wiokets for 46 runs, Flynn none for 21, F. Wilson none for 16, Fawcett, for 36, H. Wilson, two for 15, Jacobsen none for 8. AUCKLAND. a v Flynn. b. Howaen ■ ■ ... . . 31 H. Wilson, c. Rowntree, b. Howden 17 Baker c. Curtis, b. Howden . . '2 Favrcett, run out . . . . . . . . 0 ' W. Garrard. 1.b.w.. b. Kowden . . 20 Kelly, st. Rowntree, b. Snedden . . . ■ 21 1- F. Wilson. 1.b.w.. b. Howden . 0 e R. B. Lusk, st. Rowntree, b. Snedden 17 Jacobsen., not out 16 O'Brien, c. and b. Snedden . . . . 2'J " Bradbnm, not out 13 Extras .. 5 Total fcr sine wickets I£-

| Bow.ice Analysis.—Howden took five j ' 5 n ets ' or runs, STiedden three for 27. I Bellany non« for 27. Gillespie aota for 18- f ! CANTERBURY V. WELLINGTON". ! ! , I ! [BY TELEGKATK. TRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 i * j CHRISTCHURCH. Sunday. j | In beautiful weather and on a tzood i wicket. ( anterbury commenced a match j | aeainst Wellington on Christinas Day. The ' j play wag interesting, it not very exhilarating. ' I The teams seemed evenly matched with the I bowl in? a little too good tor the batsmen, i | most of whom were obv:ously not m the ! j best of form. The scores were as follows : — { WELLINGTON — Kirst Innings. !H. Lambert, c. Ree-so. b Sandman . . 74 , S Hiddleston. 1b w . b- Sandman . . 5 I ' H. E. Burton, b. B.un: . . . . 3-1 i E. M. Phillips, b. Read . . . . 10 i H. M. McGirr. c Taylor. b. Read . . u 'J. Hutchmgs, b. Read . . 2:F. S. Middloton. b. Read . . . . . 0 ; G Raker, b. Sandman . . . . . . 3 jW. S. Brice. not out . . . . . . 4 | A. Loneghue. b. Read . . . - . . in :W. Warne. run out . . . . . . . 6 Extras . . . . . , . . s i Total . . . . j . . 176 I CANTERBURY —First Innings. ,R. Blunt, r. Eiddlestont. b Bnce • . 1E not oui IS W. K. Patrick, 1.b.w., b. McGirr . . 1.) jA. Grant, b. Bru« . . . . K :W. Hayes, not o.it . . . . . 0 j Extras . . . . . . s Total for three wickets . . . . 55 I WELLINGTON V. WAIRARATA. ! f by telegraph.—pßf.ss association ] MASTERTON, Sunday. The first representative cricket match played here since the war was opened on ; the Masterton Pars Oval on Saturday afternoon. in the presence of a large gathering and in perfect weather. Wellington wou the toss and went m to bat first, making 133. a,irarapa compiled l'J4 in the first innings, the best performance being that of Daerr. with 65. The match wj'.l be continued today.