CRICKET.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5474, 31 December 1904, Page 3

CRICKET.

WELLINGTON v. OTAGO. northern team follows on. PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, December 30. Tho cricket match between Wellington and Otago was continued to-day. I lain overnight and in the early morning had loft patches of water on the outfield, and play could not bo resumed till tho afternoon. Tho weather was fine, and there was a good attendance. Tho wicket was slow and the outfield dead. Wellington were all out for 98 in the first innings, of which Blacklock claimed GO not out. made by faultless cricket. Requiring 200 runs to save an innings defeat, Wellington followed on, and at tho drawing of stumps had seven wickets down for 111. The cricket throughout the afternoon was tame and uninteresting. Downes got a lot of work on the wicket and soon had the batsmen in difficulties. Stephenson had throe lives in one of Downes’s overs, but appeared for a time to have a charmed lile. Blacklook played confidently, and carried out his bat for three score runs. In their second innings the Wellington men commenced carefully, and runs came slowly. Tho first twenty-five minutes yielded only 9 runs, and the first threequarters of an hour 20, while in the next twenty minutes 7 runs were added. Mahony played a good innings. Scores: —■ WELLINGTON.—First Innings. Mahony, b Shacklock, o Downes... 4 C. Hickson, b Downes 7 Williams, run out ... 3 Blacklock, not out 60 S. Hickson, b Downes 2 Hutchings, b Downes ... ... 0 Stephenson o Howden, b Fisher ... 8 Waters, b Downes ... ... ... 2 Quco, c Cummings, b Fisher ... 1 XTpbam, b Downes ... ••• 8 Halos, o Cummings, b Downes ... 2 Extras I Total ... ••• ••• ... 98 Bowling Analysis. Shacklock. 12 overs, 5 maidens. 18 runs, 1 wicket; Downes, 24 overs, 4 maidens, 52 runs, 6 wickets: Fisher, 14 overs, 2 maidens, 27 runs, 2 wickets. Second Innings. 0. Hickson, b Siedeberg ... ... 25 Mahony, run out 24 Williams, b Austin ... ... ... 5 Blacklock, st Williams, b Fisher... 8 S. Hickson, not out 21 Hutchings, b Downes ... ... 10 Waters, 1.b.w., b Downes ... ... 9 Stephenson, b Shacklock '4 Extras ... 5 Total for seven wickets ... 11l MATCH AT TIMARU. TIMARU, December 30. In the interprovincial cricket match, South Canterbury v. Canterbury, South Canterbury’s second ipn'ings closed with 65 runs, Canterbury thus winning by an innings and eight runs. TOURNAMENT AT WESTPORT. WESTPORT. December 30. At the cricket tournament held in connection with tho Westport Mining and Industrial Exhibition tho Ross team made 76 runs in their first innings and "the Westport A team 34 and 46 runs. Requiring 6 runs to win, Rosa made them in the second innings at tho expense of three wickets. Ross thus wins the silver cup and gold medals. WELLINGTON v. WEST COAST. The cricket match Wellington and the West Coast will commence on the Basin Reserve at 2 o’clock this afternoon, and will be continued on Monday. The selection committee has found it necessary to alter the local Wain, and Wellington will now be represented by; —C. P. Blacklock, C. Gore, Barton, Brxoe, Staples, Dakin, Hickey, Weybourne, Richardson, F. Alpe and Buckie. The West Coast team will consist of F. Robertson (New Plymouth), B. McCarthy (Hawera), M. Crombie (Inglewood), L. P. Cave, H. B. Cave, K. H. Cave, Esson and Sykes (Wanganui), Skelley (2) and Ongley (Manawatu). Messrs Sevan and Barclay will act as umpires.