CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 12

CRICKET

REP. TRIAL MATCH SECOND ELEVEN’S GOOD FORM A trial match for tlio selection ot a team to .meet Wellington on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was hold at the Oval during the week-end. The second eleven had the better of the first team, and won by 87 runs on the first, innings. Batting first, the second team knocked up 228, the chief scorer being E 11. Dow with 02, while .Tames made 20 and I’. Dow 27. C. Dow took five wickets for‘42 runs, while J. Jennings secured three for 4(1. The best the first eleven could do in reply was a total of 136, Turbitt, Clifton and Jennings being the highest scoring men with 21, 17 and 15 respectively. O. Jt. Olsen’s bowling was a feature of the innings, for ho secured six wickets at the small expense of 20 runs. The second eleven did not do so well in its second, strike, and made only 122, or which Ellis contributed 40 and Wells 20. O. Robertson took four wickets for 51 runs, and G. Lockett four for 20. The No. 1 team went in again, and nt the call of time had lost threo wickets for 87 runs. From inquiries made in well-inform-ed circles it does not seem likely that the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association will be successful in its endeavors to arrange for an appearance in Napier of the Australian cricket team that has been invited to visit New Zealand this season.