AUCKLAND MAKE 450

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7

AUCKLAND MAKE 450

PLUNKET SHIELD MATCH

AN ENTERPRISING TAIL

HARD FIGHT FOR' OTAGO

(Pur Prnss Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Taking lull advantage of the conditions that were very much in their favor, Auckland piled up a largo score m ihe Plunkct Shield cricket match, which was resumed on the Carisbrook ground yesterday. When piay commenced, Auckland, in reply to Otago’s first innings total ol 278, had lost five wickets for 216, and the visitors went on to make a total of 450, which left the home side 172 to make to avoid an innings defeat. Few bright-passages-were seen in yesterday’s play, ror until the closing stages • of •'the Auckland innings the visitors adhered to the highly successful policy of waiting for runs to come, and there were periods when the crowd, as on the previous day. expressed disappointment at the lack of enterprise in the batting. Otago’s only hope of success was a rapid early fall of wickets, but. on a wicket that gave them not the slightest help, the bowlers could not. bring about a separation until, Auckland was within easy reach, of Otago’s total. Otago’s scoring in the second innings was no more lively than that, of Auckland at its slowest, hut the tactics of tlie batsmen were well justified owing to tho loss of Cavanagh in the first over, and the distinctly bad light, against which consistent appeals were made. Details: — OTAGO First Innings 278 —Second Innings— Cavanagh, b Cowie ... 4 Saxton, not out 22 Uttley, b Yivian 14 Leader, not out 0 Extras 2 Total for two wickets ... ... 42 AUCKLAND —First Innings— Mills, c Smith, b Badcock 70 Whitelaw, lbw, b Dunning 22 Weir, c Cavanagh, b Dunning ... 45 Bush, c Clark, b Dickinson 30 Vivian, c Smith, b Badcock ... 101 Townsend, c Dunning, b Elmes ••• U Wallace, b Elmes 19 Edmonds, lbw, b Elmes 1 Sale, c Badcock, b Elmes 65 Matheson, b Chettleburgh 44 Cowie, not out 24 Extras Id Total ... 450 Bowling: Dickinson, two for 73; Badcock, one for 97; Smith, none for 22; Dunning, two for 121; Elmes, four for 72: Chettleburgh, one for 47.

STILL DELAYED HAWKE CUP MATCH (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. Owing to heavy rain at 10 o’clock there will be no play in the Hawke Cup match till noon, at the earliest.