CRICKET AT OPUNAKE

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1931, Page 14

CRICKET AT OPUNAKE

VISIT OF STRATFORD TEAM. A cricket team from Stratford defeated Opunake on the Opunake recreation ground on Saturday. The Opunake team in its first innings made 29 runs, including 6 byes. The highest scorers were Clegg 10, Roberts 6 and Burgess G. The rest scored 3 runs. The bowlers for Stratford were Wilson and Priest,] who took all the wickets. Stratford scored.s7 runs (Hall 22, Grover 24, Wilson 8, Macdonald, retired, 5). The Opunake bowlers were weak in the opening stages. Burgess and Brooker replaced the young bowlers, and with one exception, Roberts, who took Payne’s wicket, captured Stratford’s remaining wickets after breaking up the Hall-Grover combination after 46 runs were scored. A total of 11 runs were made by the rest. Opunake in the second innings made a better showing, and Stratford gave the local players every facility for a good practice game. Fourteen players, or more, were sent to the wickets, and a total of 76 runs was registered (Burgess 24, Cundy 11, Roberts 12, Stephenson 8). The Stratford bowlers were Grover, Collins, Henderson, Dormer, Payne, Irving and Macdonald. Irving took five wickets, Payne 4, Collins 2 and Henderson, Dormer an! Macdonald 1 each. 1 The Stratford players were thanked by Opunake for the good sporting game they had given Opunake.