HAWKE CUP MATCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 12

HAWKE CUP MATCH

P.B. TEAM DISAPPOINTED GREAT CHANCE MISSED Members of the Poverty Bay representative cricket team returned to Gisbbrne yesterday from Palmerston North with the general feeling that a great chance, of lifting the Hawke Gup had been missed. At an early stage in Poverty Bay's second innings it seemed likely that the deficit, would be made up, and that the disadvantages resulting from a poor first-innings display would be overcome. A bad rot set in, however, at a critical moment, and several wickets fell in succession with negligible concessions to the challengers' score, tho innings closing with the Bay still 150 ilohind Manawatu in the mutter of aggrc gate scores. Tho collapse of the challenging side in the first innings was hard to explain, though the conditions during the afternoon of the first day and also later in the course of the match were not conducive to good batting. Two batsmen of the visiting side whoso dismissal was welcomed by the holders of the cup wero Turvey and Reeves; they both handled tho bowling with .confidence, and Turvey gave a good display of wristy strokes with plenty of power behind them. Bennett was well set, and if he had received support might have carried the scoro well beyond tho point where it stuck. In the second innings things went promisingly for Poverty Hay. until after the. fall of tho second wicket. At that stage there seemed every likelihood that the innings would yield over 200, with the possibility of Manawatu's lead being wiped out and the game won by tho challengers. But at this point the innings went to pieces, one after another of the Bay men being dismissed in rapid succession by Gallichan, the tall Manawatu left-hander. Reeves held his wicket up while three others came and went, and then apparently decided to have a hit and make the most of what chances he got. It was in pursuance of this policy that he lost his wicket, returning one to McVicar, who held it nicely. Tho score-book showed a sorry succession of dismissals, considering tho standing of the Poverty Bay team, and it is hardly surprising that the majority of the side felt sheepish regarding the display generally. The work of Eraser, Robertson and Turvey produced the lb-right spots in the second innings, and if is satisfactory l<> note the success of the first-named under the conditions. Robertson can usually be depended upon to make his presence felt in a representative game, and his second innings strike more than compensated for his brief stay during the first. Turvey again showed class with the. bat, as in the initial innings. There was nothing to complain of in the Poverty Ray attack. Tho conditions wero made for a left-hander, but the right-handers did very welt The home team declined to touch anything dangerous, for the most part, contenting themselves with a. quiet and steady compilation of runs, always with an eye on tho eventual result. The number of maiden overs bowled by Bay players is a sufficient indication of the extremely cautious methods adopted by tho Manawatu team.