INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET.
NEW ZEALAND, v. NEW SOUTH WALES. Received February 27, 6.45 pm, Sydney,' Monday. The intercolonial match-was continued and concluded to-day. The home team, with seven wickets down for 546, proceeded with their first innings, running the aggregate up to 588. The full scores are appended: New South Wales.—-First Innings. Duff, c Ashbolt, b Frankish... ... 0 Pye, c Frankish, b Upham _4 Trumper, 1.b.w., b Cobcroft... ... 253 Farquhar, c Fisher, b Reese ... 110 Noble, c Boxshall, b Fi-ankish ... 37 Poidevin, b Reese ... ... 69 Chas. Gregory, hot out ... ... 40 Iredale, c Ashbolt, b Mills ... ... •'! Evers, b Downes ... , ... IS McKibbin, b Downes... ... ... 0 Howell, run out ... ... ••• 7 Extras ■ ;.. Total ... _■.••• ••• 588 Bowling ' Analysis.—Mills, one wicket for 5 runs; Cobcroft, one for 24; , Ashbolt, none for 19; Reese, two fot‘ll2; Downes, two for 103; Fisher, none for 62; Upham, one for 114; Frankish, two for. 127. , . . ~ , -r , After a short interval and Cobcroft opened for New Zealand against McKibbin and Howell. ■ Baker opened his score with a tricky one through the slips to the boundary , repeating the j number with another pretty off-stroke, j The captain pulled McKibbin to leg! for four, and had made seven when he I | played forward to McKibbin, and was! i beaten. „ . Reese'followed, - but after lunch a rot! set in. McKibbin followed one of hisj deliveries three parts up the pitch andj brilliantly caught Reese., •, _ ■ Lush partnered Baker in time to see the" latter play Howell on to his wicket, j Mills, who came' next, sent the first ball to McKibbin in‘ the slips; but the fieldsman dropped it. In McKibbin’s next, over, however, Mills .spooned one to Ire-j dale’without breaking his duck. . | Ashbolt followed, but after ploddmgi along for a single, McKibbin shifted his; middle stump.' ; ■ | Downes .lashed out in his usual style; ! and managed to make a single, but the! i inevitable catch resulted., ... _ j Fisher partnered Lusk, who had made. I fifteen, but McKibbin tempted thej ■ Hawke’s Bay player out, and he was i stumped. ■ ■■ , ; Upham filled the vacancy. Fisher, in i attempting a run, -was thrown'out, (but i the 'decision was■ a doubtful one,- The batsman himself states that he was home before the ball struck thetwicket. Frankish was next,: but Pye clean, bowled him foFa duck. ■ > Boxshall Was last xnan.-m, but his .rmrthvas immediately stumped I by-Evers. "i ; ■*'■!, ■ s . • New- South, Wales thus won by an 1 innings and 384 runs. . , : , . The scores’ are as follows: . New Zealand. —Second Innings.; Cobcroft, b McKibbin ' ' .V. 7 Baker, b Howell 17 Reese, c and b McKibbin , ... ~. 3 Lusk’, st Evers,.b McKibbinr, -, 15 Mills; c’ Iredale , b McKibbin? ' ■ 0 Ashbolt, b McKibbin ... ...... ..... 1 Downes, c Farquhar, b McKibbin 1 Fisher, thrown out ... ... ... 5 Upham, st Evers, b McKibbin ... 6 Frankish, b Pye ... ... ... 0 Boxshall, not out ... ... ... 0 Extras ... ... ... ... 9 •Total- ... .... ... ... 64 First Innings ... ..._ ... 140 Grand total - ■ ... ... 204: Bowling Analysis.—McKibbin, seven ■ wickets for 30 runs; Howell, one for 34; . Pye, one for 5. McKibbin contributed | six no-balls to the sundries. ■ . j THE RECORD. | The following table gives the result of : the various matches played by the New Zealanders since leaving the colony; February- 6.—v. South Tasmania, at Hobart. Drawn. New Zealand, 335 and three wickets for 103. South,Tasmania, 343. February 10.-—v. North Tasmania, at Launceston. .Won by 151 runs. New Zealand, 245 and 285. . North Tasmania, 328 and 51. February 20.—v. Victoria, at Melbourne. Lost by an innings and 132 runs. ’New Zealand, 317 and 153. Victoria, 602. February 24.—v. New South Wales, at Sydney. Lost by an innings and 384 runs. New Zealand, 140 and 64. Victoria, 588. Summary.—Matches played, 4; won, 1; drawn, 1; lost, 2. THE AVERAGES. The following tables show the approximate batting and bowling averages of the various members of the team
BATTING. , Bnns. Innings. Average: Baker ... ... 290 7 4V42 Lusk ... ... 274 8 34-25 Cobcroft. ... 210 7: 30 Beese ... ... 172 8 21-5 Ashbclt... ... 76 4 " 19 Sima ... ... 68. , 4 17 ' G. Mills ... Cl 4 16 TJpbam... ...... CO ■ 4 15 Frankish ... 70 5 20 Downes ... 96 7 13-7 I. Mills ... 53 5 10 6 Fisher ... ... 46 5 3-9 Boxshall- ... 53 6 8'83 BOWLING, Bans. Wkts. Average. TJpbam... . ... 430 16 2614 Downes ... 383., 14 27-5 Beese ... ... 343* 12 287 Cohoroft ... 29 1 29 G. Mills ... 75 1 75 Frankish ... 324 4 80 Fisher .. ... 159 1 159 Aahbolt ■ ... 102 0 — Sms ... ... 26 0 — Baker ... ... 16 0 —
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3676, 28 February 1899, Page 5
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