CRICKET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 4

CRICKET.

By Slip.

NOTES. The enthusiasm of some young players it shown by the fact that while all other matches were postponed on Saturday on account of the heavy rain which fell, the members of the Grange and Kaikorai Second Grade teams went on with their game until 3 o’clock, in spite of driving Tain.' and a sodden, wicket, the Grange tide being composed of only six men. It is a great misfortune that cricketers have been deprived of their games on two of tho_ last three Saturdays. The veteran G. G. Austin is one of the keenest workers for the game iu Dunedin. A number of youcg players iu the Carisbrook Club have been picked to receive coaching from him on Monday evenings. His object is to give them instruction in the more important strokes, This will be done in the pavilion or, perhaps, in the open, but not at the nets, the object being to give 'the boys a knowledge of strokes which they can attempt at the nets later in the week. The-fielding points awarded in the last round o£_aenior matches were as follows: Grange 5, Albion .4, Christian Brothers 6, Old Boys 4, Carisbrook 8, Dunedin 4. G. L. Weir, is faring particularly badly in Auckland cricket this season. So far he has scored but nine runs in three innings and taken one wicket for 108. Last year ■be was one of the best players in ■ New . Zealand, and won the Eerlpath Cup. A match between Southland and South .Canterbury was to have been played at Invercargill at New Year time, but advice has now been received that the South Canterbury Association will be unable to get a team awav. . The 243 which E. R. Neale (117) and S, Newman (108) put-up for the' first' wicket for Old Boys -against College at Nelson recently must have,'- been worth seeing, as the runs were made- in 100 minutes.

Playing for the Working Men’s Club against Kiccarton in the Christchurch Suburban Cricket Association’s second grade B competition, at Sydenham Park, S. M'Lnughian scored 58 runs in 12 hits —five sixes and seven fours (says the Christchurch Sun). Four, of the sixes vent clean over the Methodist Church. “ Bunvood,” writing in the Dominion, after referring to Dickinson’e bowling feat against Christian,. Brothers, expresses the opinion that he is without question the best fast bowler New Zealand .has ever produced, and adds that it is pleasing to see that he is at the top of his 'form on the eve of the English invasion. A. Sinclair, ! a former Albion player, bow . a member of the Union team in Invercargill, secured the " hat trick ” against Bluff a couple of Saturdays ago. That even the best of wicket-keepers have their off days is shown by the fact that K. James, of Wellington, recently allowed 43 extras in ai score of 249. Duleepsinhji appears to be the M.C.C. team’s ’utility man. Great as a batsman, he is also good in the field, and on the present tour he has already been given, a hand in the bowling as well as taking a turn at keeping wickets.

Allsopp stepped into the breach when W. A. Oldfield was unable to continue as wicket-keeper by taking wickets as to the manner horn (states’ the Referee in an account of the match between Hew South Wales and the M.C.C. team). Jim Kelly says Allsopp should be taken to England ns second wicket-keeper and batsman fit for any test. " Did you see Davidson and Walker keeping wickets in the Sheffield Shield match last season?” wis a. question put to the veteran.. “ Yes, and J greatly admired the pair. But Allsopp tor me. He is a great batsman, provided no one tries to spoil him, by advising him to play, someone else’s. game. He must continue to play bis own game.” . . . . Some unbiased cricket enthusiasts who Were in'line with the crease from which W. H. Cunningham was bowling for East Christchurch last Saturday, say that in three overs Cunningham gent down 18 no-balls without 1 ,-.-one’ ; -being', signalled against him by the umpire (says a Christchurch writer). Don Bradman was the best New Sont*. Wales batsman in the recent Sheffield Shield match at 1 Brisbane (states the Referee). This' young chap his a remarkable temperament for first-class cricket. He has also a very old head for the game; is always as fit as a fiddle, most observant, and always inclined to learn from each match and every other player, if he 'sees anything worth noting. Bradman was-.the, man at the pinch at Brisbane, and, in that direction, is following the example of: Alan Kippas, who, in the corresponding match a year ago) Was linked with Bradman in the big batting exploit that proved the matchwinner. He then scored-131 and 133 not out.

There have been 14 aggregate scores in first-class cricket higher than the 1607 ■TMr!r?iT ecor ■ ma tch between the M.C.C, team and New South Wales this week, but only one that has yielded a higher average number of runs for each wicket that has falleu. Taking the number of wickets in the M.C.C. team’s first innings as nine, since E. H. Bowley was unable to bat, 22 wickets fell in the scoring of 1607 runs, an average of ‘73.45 runs a wicket. The match that gave a •better average was played by Worcestershire and Leicestershire in 1906; when 1420 runs were scored for 16 wickets, an average of 89.06 runs a wicket. The aggregate ever' recorded was the 1929 which was made, at a cost of 39 wickets, in a match between New South Wales and South Australia at Sydney four years ago. Dealing with Melbourne Club cricket, three Saturdays ago, a writer in the Referee states: The stal*. attraction was the reappearance of E. A. M'Donald with his old team—Fitzroy. On a short visit, he will play with Fitzroy until February, when he. will return .to England. He ban signed on with Lancashire several seasons. Anyone who .has played with s Melbourne pennant club at any. time for five successive seasons is entitled to play again without any further qualifications, So, when Mr H. Bussell. Fitzroy’s S t?*’ 3r 'v 111 M'Donald on his arrival at Port Melbourne, the latter signified his willingness to appear with the club. He looks well but has not bowled since September. His appearance at Fitzroy drew a crowd of over 6000. who gave him a rousing reception. Opening with the breeze, he was not more than fast medium,.' and his five overs cost 29 runs. Coming on a second time he bowled reallv ’veil with added pace, and took two, wickets for_ nine runs, off six overs, three being maidens. He finished up with two for 47 off 14 overs.

• The 200 which Frank Woolley hit up lor the M.C.G. team against New South \> ales at Sydney on Monday is by no means the largest score which the famous r n r has made bv the light of the Southern Cross. In the 1911-12 Jenson Woolley compiled 305 not out lor England against Tasmania, and in that innings put on 206 for the second wicket with W. Rhodes, and 264 for the third wicket with J. W. Hearne. Woolley started making centuries for Enplane! in Australia in tire 1911-12* season, when he lilt lip 133 not out. He has gone on like the brook ever since, and now has over 100 centuries to his credit in first-class matches. Followers of the game in New Zealand this season wilt have the rare pleasure of seeing this master batsman at the top of his form, as already on the tou . r ,l '’ l,ns smacked up 14G ami j.OO against South Australia and New South Wales. M.C.C. AVERAGES. Following are the complete batting and bonding averages of the members 0 f A. 41. il. Gilligans Mnryiebonc Cricket Club e f t ,lp . to aml including the fourth match of the Australian portion of their itinerary that against New South Wales, at Sydney:—. ’ batting. =O- H v] rj> <l. B. Leggc .. 2 1 80 47* 80 K, H, Bowley ..2 1 70 70* 70 F. K. Woolley .. 7 0 415 209 59.28 K. S. Duleepsinhji ~ ~ 8 I ■ 208 64. 38.23 M. S. Nichols .. 5 0 188 82 37.6 31. J. Turnbull 7 1 110 100 33.16 E, W. Dawson .. 81 201 S3* 28.71 A. K. H. Gilligan 7 0 154 53 22 F. Barratt ..5 1 67 32 16.75 It. F. Earle .. 5 0 82 43 16.4 M. J. C. Alloni 6 3 '43 12* 14.33 W. Corn ford .. 5 1 32 15* 8 6. Worthington 6 0 41 10 6.33

Also batted —E. T. Benson, 0. * Not out. BOWLING. Wkts. Runs. Avg. E. Bowley .. 7 PIS 18.28 M. J. C. Alloni 14 333 23.78 M. S. Nichols .. 11 282 25.63 F. Barratt .. 16 428 20.8 S. Worthington 8 200 37.37 F. E. Woolley .. 7 270 38.57 A!s - o howled. —E. W. Dawson, none for 30; K. S. Didcepsinhji, none for 52.