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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 8

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SHEEN SHIELD MATCH TOKOMARU BEATS MATA (Herald Correspondent.) There was nothing spectacular about the scoring in the Sheen Shield match at Tokomaru Bay during the week-end, when Tokomaru club bqat Mata by a margin of 30 runs. The visitors were unable to establish a substantial lead in the first innings, though the home, side’s showing was poor, and Tokomaru’s recovery in the second strike accounted for the result. Mata batted first, and the top score was made by Steedman, who got 19 before being clean bowled by R. Jackson; Cooper made 11, and was the only Other batsman to reach double figures. The innings yielded off, and the bowling honors were divided by Jackson and 11. Oates, who took four wickets for 30 runs, and six for 21 respectively. Tokomaru responded with 49, of which no less than 29 came off Williams’ bat; next to Williams, W. Oates was the most successful with an, insignificant 4. Budden proved a formidable leader of the Malta attack, and took seven wickets for 20 runs, Steed man. securing two for 2f>. The game looked like a win for Mata when they added (17 for their second strike, Duflin making 24 and Budden 17; the bowling successes again lay with R. Jackson, who took four wickets for 10 runs, 11. Oates taking turn for 24 and Williams two for 13. A fine partnership between N. Oates and F. Jackson for Tokomaru, however, changed the whole course of the game, Oates getting 36. and his partner 17. ■ Later Wickous added 21 befoye retiring, and others brought the total for. thtv.innings up to 107. Budden was .again prominent, for he took four wickets for 34 runs, and accepted one catch, disposing of N. Oates; Steedman got two for 32, and Green two for none. Duflin took two good catches during the innings, and Simmonds, behind the stumps,caught out one and stumped another of the Tokomaru players. , A mishap occurred in Mata’s second innings, when W. Oates, fielding at point, received a blow above the eye, necessitating his withdrawal. The teams were hospitably entertained by a ladies’ committee at afternoon tea. | CRICKET LAWS I ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS LONDON, Nov. 23. ! The Advisory County Cricket Com mittee, at a meeting at Lord’s to-day. recommended—(l) a 'continuance of the wider wicket and the l.b.w. rule, bv which a man may be given out to a ball be plays, if the umpire thinks il. would hit the wickqt; (2) seven minutes rolling of' the wicket net ween the innings, instead of 10. Another resolution provided that, if the captains agreed, 30 minutes’ extra play should be allowed on the second day of a three-day match, if it wouiu produce a definite result. It was d: cided that the umpires should order it . Viscount Piumer presided. “The Test Match Board of Control to-day decided that a trial match, England v. The Rest, should he played at Lord’s on May 31 and June 2 and 3. The hours of piny in Test match-s against the Australians in 1930 were fixed at the same as in 1926.