CRICKET INCIDENT.
BENSON'S UNIQUE DISMISSAL
A correspondent, Mr. Percy White, forwards the following regarding the paragraph published in these columns last week in connection with the, incident which occurred in Auckland last cricket season, when E. T. Benson was dismissed in peculiar manner. Mr. White says:— " The English writer's version is very ingenious, but hardly correct. Actually Benson momentarily forgot the rules, and put his hand down, not to throw tho bull back to tho bowler, but to pull it away from his wicke£. He really did not touch tho ball, but was given out by the umpire, who considered he had done so. " I was conversing with Barratt, tho Englishman, at the timo, when Benson came up and sat down alongside us. I told him it was the most humorous thing ] had ever seen in tho gamo. We both laughed over the matter, and, while agreeing with me, ho said ho would havo a difficult job to explain it away when ho arrived back at Lord's. He quite agreed with tho umpire's decision, one, ho said, he would have given himself were the positions reversed. " Thereby wo must consider Benson a fine sportsman as well as a very fine cricketer.".
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20593, 18 June 1930, Page 15
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