SHIELD PERFORMANCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27286, 12 January 1950, Page 6

SHIELD PERFORMANCES

AVERAGES OF PLAYERS SUTCLIFFE’S REMARKABLE FIGURES This year's Plunket Shield averages fully demonstrate B. Sutcliffe’s outstanding batting ability. He leads the field with the excellent figures of, 113.80. His nearest rival is his opening partner on the English tour, V. J. Scott, who returned two good performances, scoring a century against Otago and also against Wellington. His average is 81.00. S. A. McVicar, of Wellington, although he played in only the one match, against Otago, finished third with 78.C0. Other good averages are J. Hardstaff 67.25, J. R. Reid 58.20, W. M. Wallace 57.50, and W. A. Hadlee 50.75. An Otago player has also headed the bowling averages. He is A. M. Moir, who bowled impressively in his first Plunket Shield match, securing four wickets at an average of 13.75. The most meritorious performance, however, was that of Guy Overton, who bowled consistently throughout the series to take the most wickets, 17, at a cost of 19 runs. apiece. There were better averages than Overton’s, and these were all returned by the strong Wellington bowling side. J. R. Reid 14.10, R. McK. Murray 14.61, G. F. Cresswell 17.00, and E. W. Dempster 17.00 all bowled extremely well. Although the competition was not close, the series was marked by several new cricketing records. Sutcliffe’s record score of 355 was the outstanding feature, and besides this a new record for the fifth wicket was established by Sutcliffe and Haig, as well as the highest aggregate for a Plunket Shield series, also recorded by the brilliant left-hander. R. McK. Murray, of Wellington, by performing the hat trick against Otago, secured the inclusion of his name in the first-class, cricket records of New Zealand. , The averages of each province are set out below:—

WELLINGTON Batting In. N.O H.S. Agg, Av. S. A. McVicar 2 1 73* 78 78.00 J. R. Reid 6 1 112 291 58.20 J. A. Ongley .. 6 — 52 192 32.00 E. VV. Dempster 5 1 47* 115 28.75 E. W. Tindill .. 2 — 36 44 22.00 R. A. Vance .. 4 — 28- 73 18.25 F. H. L. Mooney 5 1 22 66 16.50 G. O. Rabone .. 6 —— 32 82 13.66 R. McK. Murray 4 — 26 50 12.50 C. L. Randall .. 4 — 36 50 12.50 R. J. Kemp .. 3 — 27 32 10.66 A. E. Cresswell 4 2 15 20 10.00 G. F. Cresswell 4 2 5 7 3.50 Bowling O. M, R. W. Av. J. R. Reid .. . 59.1 11 141 10 14.10 R. McK. Murray 82 29 190 13 14.61 G. F. Cresswell . 185.4 80 204 12 17.00 E. W. Dempster 24 2 68 4 17.00 C. L. Randall . 80.3 24 186 9 20.66 J. A. Ongley 28 9 62 2 31.00 A. E. Cresswell 78 20 160 3 53.33 G. O. Rabone . 58 13 130 1 130.00 OTAGO ' * Batting In. N.O. H.S. Agg. Av. B. Sutcliffe 5 — 355 569 113.80 L. A. Watt .. 2 1 41* 41 41.00 S. N. McGregor 5 1 75 136 34.00 A. W Roberts 3 — 51 100 33.33 R. T. Hunt .. 4 — 62 100 25.00 W. S. Haig ' .. 5 — 67 71 14.20 E. Watson 4 1 13 32 10.66 G. H. Mills 4 —— 21 1 39 9.75 L. D. Smith .. 4 — 16 27 6.75 L. J. Groves .. 3 — 15 20 6.66 G. W. Overton 3 — 2 3 1.00 A. M. Moir 1 1 35* 35 — I. Walsh 2 2 2* 2 — M. Muir 1 — — Bowling O. M. R. W. Av. A. M. Moir 27 4 55 4 13.75 G. W. Overton . 143 36 323 17 19.00 L. D. Smith 64.1 11 139 6 23.16 E. A. Watson . 62.1 16 154 6 25.66 A. W. Roberts . 32 9 57 2 28.50 L. J. Groves 39 5 137 1 137.00 J. Walsh .. . 60 10 160 1 160.00 Also bowled:— B. Sutcliffe 4 0 13 0 M. Muir .. . 5 0 20 0 AUCKLAND Batting in. N.O. H.S. Agg. Av. V. J. Scott 6 1 116 405 81.00 J. Hardstaff .. 4 — 135 269 67.25 W. M. Wallace 2 — 86 115 57.50 O. C. Cleal 6 — 81 254 42.33 L. A. Kent .. 5 — 91 165 33.00 B. Donaldson .. 3 * 50 73 24.33 D. D. Coleman 6 — 74 127 21.16 J Blane 4 — 32 64 16.00 C. C. Burke .. 2 — 21 23 11.50 F E. Hemmingson 5 3 11* 22 11.00 D. L. Perry .. 6 — 32 62 10.33 J. L. Marsdon 2 1 8 10 10.00 M. Lewis . - 2 — 9 12 6.00 J. E. Hollywood .. .. 4 1 10* 11 3.66 K. Dollery 3 1 4* 6 3.00 D. C. Cleverley 1 1 1* 1 — Bowling O. M. R. W. Av. O. C. Cleal .. . 69 23 154 8 19.25 D. C. Cleverley 66.2 22 132 6 22.00 J Blane 32.5 4 82 3 27.33 F E. Hemmingson . 145.1 38 342 10 34.20 B. Donaldson . 84 12 211 6 35.16 J. E. Hollywood 75 13 235 5 47.00 C. C. Burke 48 21 95 1 95.00 J Hardstaff 33 5 121 1 121.00 Also bowled: V. J. Scott, 1, 0, 4, 0; D. D. Coleman, 4, J, 14, 0: J. L. Marsdon, 11. 3, 45, 0; K. Dollery, 61.1, 11, 131, 0. CANTERBURY Batting In. N.O. H.S. Agg. Av. W A. Hadlee .. 4 — 125 203 50.75 A. R. MacGibbon .. .. 5 1 94 194 48.50 J. G. Leggat .. 5 — 80 233 46,60 S. M. Cameron 2 1 29* 42 42.00 M. E. Chappie 4 2 40 68 34.00 R. T. Dowker .. 1 — 32 32 32.00 P. O'Malley .. 5 — 59 119 23.80 F B. Smith .. 5 — 43 91 18.20 W. McD.Anderson 5 — 35 87 17.40 T. B. Burtt .. 4 — 24 69 17.25 C. G. Snook .. 1 — 17 17 17.00 G. Anderson .. 1 — 10 10 10.00 J. D. Alderson 3 1 3 4 2.00 R. C. Webb .. 3 — 2 3 1.00 P. A. Small .. 2 — 1 1 0.50 W. Bell .. .. 1 1 6* 6 — Bowling O. M. R. W. Av. S. M. Cameron . 57.1 10 149 7 21.28 T B. Burtt .. . 138 64 276 12 23.00 J D. Alderson . 42.2 5 144 6 24.00 C. G. Snook 29 10 72 3 24.00 M. E. Chappie 49 15 106 4 26.50 A R. MacGibbon 119.5 27 316 10 31.60 W. Bell .. . 38 4 143 2 74.00 W. McD. Anderson* 19 1 74 1 74.00 Also bowled: P. A. Small. 15, 8, 24, 0. • Denotes not out.