FINE DISPLAY OF CRICKET

Southland Times, Issue 24355, 8 February 1941, Page 8

FINE DISPLAY OF CRICKET

Canterbury Women’s Team In perfect playing conditions the representative women’s cricket match between Southland and Canterbury was begun yesterday on the Doon street ground. At the close of the day’s play Canterbury had completed its first innings with 170 runs on the board, and Southland had made 77 runs in its first innings, following on to compile 97 runs for the loss of one wicket. The wicket was in good order and the outfield was in excellent condition, though a little soft after recent rain. The visitors won the toss and decided to bat, Z. Hocking and M. Marks taking first strike. M. Thomas and E. Blackie opened the attack and the first wicket, that of Z. Hocking, fell rather cheaply. M. Marks was joined at the wicket by P. Taylor, but she was dismissed after scoring one run. It was H. Steere who then gave the game a different complexion. She gave a very forceful display of batting to compile 71, this total including two 6’s. Her performance was the highlight of the day’s play. She appeared very much at home at the wicket and her shots were all played with a clean precision. M. Marks batted carefully for 24. Southland’s fielding was excellent. Tlie returns were both fast and accurate and the picking up was done with precision. In Southland’s first innings the Canterbury fielding was good and was largely responsible for the very small score put up by the home side. Low scoring was general in the first innings, the highest knock being M. Maley’s 25. Canterbury’s bowling was very accurate.

After being dismissed for 77 in its first innings Southland followed on and by adopting different tactics was able to put 97 runs on the board for one wicket down. This score' : was put up in 59 minutes. The match will be continued today. Details:—

CANTERBURY s | First -dinings f M. Marks b E. Blackie 24 Z. Hocking c C. Baker b M. Thomas 7 P. Taylor lbw b C. Baker 1 H. Steere cM. Duggan bJ. Swale 71 J. Webster run out 13 * R. Martin lbw b J. Swale 0 ; P. Blackler run out 7 a V. Russell b M. Thomas 12 ' F. Campbell c R. McKenzie b M. Thomas 3 5 P. Farquahar b F. Blackie 8 F. Rowe not out s 4 Extras 20 t TOTAL 170 j BOWLING ANALYSIS

i SOUTHLAND First Innings V. Anderson run out 4 M. Maley b Farquhar 25 E. Blackie run out 0 M. Thomas c Taylor b V. Russell 10 i B. Ingram lbw b P. Taylor 7 H. Maley b P. Taylor 5 C. Baker not out 16 R. Barclay c Steere b V. Russell 1 M. Duggan b Blackler 2 R. McKenzie b Blackler 0 j Extras 7 TOTAL 77 J. Swale was unable to bat. BOWLING ANALYSIS

M. Thomas not out 38 1 E. Blackie b Martin - 26 B. Ingram not out 25 | Extras 81 TOTAL for one wicket 97 I I CANTERBURY SCORE 507 AGAINST OTAGO DUNEDIN, February 7. The return cricket match between Otago and Canterbury began on the Carisbrook grounds today, the wicket being in perfect order and the outfield fast. Canterbury won the toss and gave a great display of aggressive batting, the total being 507 for six wickets at stumps. The Otago bowlers were mas- I tered almost from the start. Otago’s hopes rose when Hadlee was dismissed for six but the second wicket did not fall until the score stood at 169, Cromb just failing to reach a century, his wicket falling for 96. O’Brien gave a pol- - ished display in making 112 and Roberts hit hard for 69. Moynihan was less I impressive in making 46, and when I stumps were drawn James, an ex-Vic- i torian, was undefeated with 155 to Iris I credit. All the bowlers were treated with scant respect, Robertson with two for 69 being the most successful. Following are the scores:—

CANTERBURY First Innings W. A. Hadlee c Groves b Knight 6 I. B. Cromb c J. D. Blakely b Chettleburgh 96 F. O’Brien c J. D. Blakely b Robertson 112 W. McD. Anderson lbw b Robertson 8 V. James not out 155 D. Moynihan c Leader b J. D. Blakely 46 A. W. Roberts c and b Leader 69 W. O. Mappiebeck not out 7 Extras 8 TOTAL for six wickets 507 I BOWLING ANALYSIS j

M. Thomas 0. 22 M. R. W. 7 35 3 J. Swale 16 2 46 2 1 C. Baker 8 1 25 1 | E. Blackie 11 — 37 2

0. M. R. W. P. Blackler 10 4 21 2 V. Russell 14 3 30 2 P. Taylor 9 1 15 2 D. Farquhar 3 0 5 1 Second Innings

0. M. R. W. G. J. Robertson 16 2 69 2 A. R. Knight 17 6 62 1 V. J. Leader 20 4 58 1 C. Geary 8 — 60 — L. J. Groves 12 1 91 — L. Smith 8 — 44 — T. Chettleburgh 11 — 59 1 J. D. Blakely 6 32 1 S. Duncan 5 1 24 —