PLUNKET SHIELD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 450, 2 January 1934, Page 2

PLUNKET SHIELD

Canterbury-W ellington Match SOME GOOD PLAY Press Association—Copyright. Wellington. Jan. 1. Some good play was seen in the Plunket Shield cricket match between Canterbury and Wellington, which was commenced at the Basin Reserve on Saturday and was continued to-day. The Wellington batsmen gave a far better showing than that given against Auckland the previous week and made 328 in their first innings. The bowling, however, was not considered to be as good as that of the northerners, the only Canterbury man to cause any appreciable worry being Cromb. Tindill, who topped the Wellington score with 106, gave a particularly sound exhibition. The visitors opened their first innings in the afternoon and at the end of the first day’s play they had 77 for two wickets, Kerr being unbeaten with 43. This they carried to 424 to-day, notable performances being given by Kerr, Riley and Hadlee. The first-named played a sterling knock for 174 and was very warmly applauded when it terminated. He gave one chance in the first over of the second day’s play when he lifted Parsloe around to square leg, presenting Hatch, the Country representative, with the easiest of catches, which was dropped. That proved an expensive letoff and meant probably the difference between success and failure in the first innings.

Wellington made a drastic start when it opened the second innings late this afternoon. The opening batsman, Dustin, was bowled after scoring a single, and O’Brien, the other Country representative, was bowled without opening his account, two wickets being down for one run. To compensate for the bad start, however, Tindill and Ell, who followed O’Brien, played delightful cricket, Ell in particular executing some beautiful forceful shots to square leg and through slips. He scored 50 in 53 minutes before he was caught through being too bold with off stuff. The partnership had -arris d the score to 94—runs which were badly needed. Lamason joined Tindill, and at the end of the second day’s play they were both not out with 2 and 47 respectively, the total being 104 for three wickets.

A sorry feature of to-day’s play was the fielding weakness of Wellington. The scores are:— WELLINGTON. First Innings. Dustin, b Riley 45 Tindill, st. Burns, b Hope 106 O’Brien, c and b Hope 19 Ell, c Burns, b Riley 5 Lamason, b Hope 8 Ward, c Burns, b Cromb 41 James, 1.b.w., b Cromb 9 Morgan, b Lester 56 Parsloe, c Smith, b Lester 1 Hatch, 1.b.w., b Lester 0 Blundell, not out . 8 Extras 30 Total 328 Bowling: Hope took three wickets for 61 runs; Smith, none for 42; Cromb, two for 68; Riley, two for 83; Lester, three for 40; Page, none for 4. Second Innings. j Dustin, b Smith 1, Tindill, not out 47 O’Brien, b Smith 0 Ell, c Bellamy, b Cromb ............. 50 Lamason, not out / i. •. 2 Extras 4 Total (for three wickets) 104 Bowling: Cromb took one wicket for 27 runs; Smith, two for 25; Lester, none for 11; Hope, none for 16; Riley, none for 18; Stringer, none for 3. CANTERBURY. First Innings. * Kerr, run out 174 Stringer, Lb.w., b Parsloe 10 Bellamy, c James, b Blundell 18 Hadlee, c Ward, b Blundell 41 Page, 1.b.w., b Parsloe 23 Cromb, b Patch 7 Smith, c Morgan, b Hatch 33 Lester, Lb.w., b Morgan 1 Riley, not out i 67 Hope, c Dustin, b Blundell 29 Bums, run out 0 Extras 21 Total 424 Bowling; Parsloe took two wickets for 81 runs Blundell, three for 126; Hatch, two for 80; Lamason, none for 50; Morgan, one for 45; Ward, none for 21. AUCKLAND v. OTAGO Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, Jan, 1. After two days’ play in the Plunket Shield „ match between Auckland and Otago Auckland is in a strong position. In the first innings Auckland scored 263 runs and Otago replied with 213. Batting again Auckland lost two wickets for 135 runs.

The batting throughout has been dis- . appointing, the Auckland players being' content to dig themselves in and lose 1 many scoring opportunities. The early Otago batsmen gave a boreing display but later in the innings the team was forced into defensive tactics. The scores are:— AUCKLAND. First Innings. J. E. Mills, b Dunning 20 P. E. Whitelaw, run out 7 G. L. Weir, c Hawkcsworth, b Dunning 25 H. G. Viv.an, b Elmes 57 A. J. Postles, run out 9 R. H. Cleave, c Cox, b Badcock .... 19 M. Wallace, b Dunning 1 R. G. Bush, run out 6 D. R. Garrard, not out 67 A. M. Mathieson, 1.b.w., b Dunning 1 D. B. Edmonds, c Chettleburgh, b Badcock 28 Extras 23 Total 263 Bowling; Jolly none for 45, Badcock two for 69, Dunning four for 81, Elmes one for 18, Moloney none for 27. Second Innings. J. E. Mills, b Elmes 46 I P. Whitelaw, c Badcock, b Elmes 1... 32 I G. L. Weir, not out 15 | H. G. Vivian, not out 32 Extras 1° Total (for two wickets) 135 OTAGO. First Innings. V. G. Cavanagh, 1.b.w., b Matheson .. 7 A. Knight, 1.b.w., b Matheson 36 D. A. R. Moloney, run out 10 S. C. Elmes, b Matheson 24 F. T. Badcock, c Whitelaw, b Bush 34 | K. Uttley, c Matheson, b Weir 62 K. Cox, b Garrard 8 T. Chettleburgh, c Postles, b Garrard 4 J. A. Dunning, b Garrard 0 Jolly, c and b Bush 10 (

W. Hawkesworth, not out 5 Extras 14 Total 213 Bowling: Matheson three for 67, Weir one for 21, Garrard three for 57, Bush two for 32, Vivian none for 22.