WEEK-END CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19868, 20 February 1939, Page 2

WEEK-END CRICKET

FILE SHIELD RETAINED \ STRONG BID BY FREEZERS SEN SAT lON AL BOWLING In an exciting finish, the cricket team representing Messrs. Bigneli and Holmes retained the File Shield bystaving oil a strong challenge by the Refrigerating Company. The freezers secured a lead of 31 runs on the first innings, but the garage team staged a good recovery in the second, and scored the necessary runs with only five minutes to spare and six wickets in hand.

A feature of the game was sensational bowling by H. McMillan, whose remarkable effort for.the freezers of taking five wickets in six deliveries threatened to spoil Bigneli and Holmes’ chances. The feat was all the more noteworthy, because those live wickets were the first to fall, and Bigneli and Holmes found the scoreboard reading five wickets for five runs shortly after the start of the third over of the innings.

Opening the howling to Welsh, who snicked the fourth ball to the boundary for four, McMillan commenced his bowling feat with the sixth ball, by skittling Welsh’s wickets. A'he next two balls also secured“wicltets, giving McMillan the hat-trick, In the second over of the innings, taken by B. Birrell. only one run was scored. McMillan commenced his second over by taking R. Bignall’s wicket. Nothing eventuated from the second ball, but the fifth wicket fell with the third ball. At that stage, McMillan had.taken five wickets for four runs.

Bignell and Holmes recovered after that, however, and the innings closed at 81 in reply to the freezers’ 112. McMillan’s bowling figures were seven wickets lor 34 runs, all his victims being bowled The freezers’ second innings produced only 66, and the garage men were left with 97 runs to get to stave oiT defeat and an hour in which to make tire runs. Mainly as a result of a good partnership by Welsh and Beane, the freezers’ total was passed with only five minutes to spare, concluding one of the most sensational File Shield matches. Scores: — FREEZING COMPANY First Innings P>. B'irrell, c ‘Burdett, b Wilkie .. 37 J. Livingstone, c Bignell, b Welsh 0 .1. Milligan, b Wilkie .. .. 12 M. Glassford, b Hansen .. .. 6 H. McMillan, c and b Hansen .. 11 G. Lynex, b Welsh .. .. .. 7 G. Hookham. lbw., b Welsh .. 0 T. Leslie, ib Wilkie .. .. .. 9 W. Brown, b Wilkie .. .. 0 M. Cameron, b Welsh .. .. 5 Lynex, jun., not out .. .. 0 Extras .. .. . • ■ • 23 Total ‘ .. .. ..112 Bowling.—T. Welsh, four wickets for 32 runs; Wilkie, four for 32; Ilansen, two for 19. Second Innings Birrell. b Wilkie 1 Livingstone, to Welsh .. .. 5 Milligan, c ißlane, b Wilkie .. If) Glassford, b Welsh .. .. .1 McMillan, b Hansen .. .. 16 G. Lynex, b Wilkie .. .. 4 Hookham, c (Martell, b Wilkie .. 10 Leslie, b Hansen .. .. .. 0 Brown, b Hansen .. .. .. 0 Cameron, c Burdett, b Wilkie .. 0 Lynex, jun., not out .. .. 0 Extras 12 Total .. .. .. ..60 Bowling—Welsh, two for 21; Wilkie five -for 17; Ilansen, three for 12. BIGNELL AND HOLMES First Innings T. Welsh, b McMillan .. 4 ift. -Bignell, b McMillan .. 1 C. Hansen, b McMillan ■ ■ ■ - 0 L. Bignell, b McMillan .. 0 W. Wilkie, b McMillan .. 0 J. ißlane, c Hobkharn, b McMillan 25 G. Martell, b McMillan .. 23 ,f. Burdett, c Birrell, b Milligan 4 G. Johnstone, b Milligan . . 12 C. Topp, b Milligan .1 L. Brown, not out .. 4 Extras .. .. . - -. 7 Total 81 ißowling.—McMillan, seven wickets for 34; Milligan, throe for 17. Second Innings R. Bignell, b Birrell 11 (L. Bignell, b Birrell .. .. 3 Wilkie, b McMillan .. .12 ■Hansen, lbw., b Birrell .. .. 5 Welsh, b McMillan 48 ißlane, not out ■ • .. 25 Martell, not out 2 Extras .. ■ • • • • • 8 Total for five wickets .. ..114! Bowling.—Birrell, three for 52; McMillan, two for 34.