|HAWKE CUP CRICKET

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1930, Page 5

|HAWKE CUP CRICKET

FURTHER GROUPING OF MATCHES.

RECOMMENDATION BY MANAWATU

The playing of a further round in Hawke Cup matches is a recommendation by the Manawatu Cricket Association which is to come before the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Cricket Council at an early date. If the Manawatu Association’s recommendation is carried four teams would be left with a right to challenge Rangitikei for the shield during the season. Under the present grouping Taranaki is drawn against Wanganui. If the scheme is adopted a second round will be played in which the winner of the Taranaki v. Wanganui match will play the winner of the Wairarapa v. Manawatu match. The ultimate winner has the right to challenge Rangitikei for the cup. ’ The *advantages claimed from the scheme are that with only four teams having a right to challenge Rangitikei for the shield during the season the uncertainty that has always existed as. to whether or not a particular association was going to participate in the challenge match for the cup would be done away with. It is claimed that it would also enable other associations to a 1 range representative programmes for the season. In the past associations which had survived the first round have always bad to keep their representative players ready to travel at practically a moment’s notice. That had piactically resulted in the abandonment of all interassociation matches other than, the Hawke. Cup, which was an undesirable state of affairs.

THE COUNTRY DIVISION.

PROGRESS OF COMPETITIONS,

With three of the first round series of matches decided in the Saturday division of the North Taranaki country competition and three teams still undefeated there is every indication of a keen- struggle for supremacy. Tarurutaugi so far has a slight-advantage with three wins to its credit, whereas Tikorangi A and Brixton, the lather two undefeated teams, drew last week and are thus a point behind. Already the country players have struck form and thus early the standard of play shows a decided improvement on last year. To-day Tarurutangi will meet Tikorangi A at Tikorangi, Brixton will play Egmont Village at Egmont Village and Tikorangi B will meet Urenui at Urenui.

The position of the teams is:—

SATURDAY COMPETITION.

THURSDAY COMPETITION. In the Thursday competition, in which three teams have entered, the issue lias already fined, itself down to two, Waitara and Inglewood. At the end of the first round Inglewood held a one-point lead over the men from Waitara, but the latter, reinforced by Kingstone, easily- had its revenge in the opening match of the second round, securing a threepoint win as against Inglewood’s twopoirj/er at the start of the season, and now leads by two points. The position of the teams is:—-

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«4-> _4_J ■ co oF 1 3? tn s E ' ."h O O < o p< p l-l Waitara . 3 2 —• • 1 6 Inglewood ... . 3 —* 2 1 /4 Eltham 2 — 2 0