311 RUNS TO 112

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 4

311 RUNS TO 112

HAWKE CUP CHALLENGE TARANAKI BATSMEN-SCORE EUNS WELL DISTRIBUTED RANGITIKEI 224 FOR EIGHT Taranaki gave a sterling display in the Hawke Cup match at Pukekura Park on Saturday, compiling a total of 311. / Rangitikei, which scored 112 in tne fcTtaoi.. with ® «>>» wickets in the second innings. With a days play remaining Rangitikei have a lead of 25 with two wickets in hand,With its second innings untouched laranaki therefore holds an almost unassailable position. . , Steady rain which persisted through the night ceased about 9 ami., but starting time was delayed owing to the sodden condition of the pitch and outfield After an inspection of the ground at 11 o’clock the captains decided to commence play at 11.45. _ The most prominent feature of Taranaki’s resumption from the overnight < snore of four wickets for 184, was the A" aggressive .batting display of V. Parkmson Piaying confidently and forcefully he'raffed WP his half century in 44 minutes- E- Christensen, last man in, played, a straight bat but opened up on the loose balls and carried his bat for 20. W- Dormer after a quiet display of defensive batsmanship was caught, having brought his previous day’s- score cd 28 n3t out to 42. A. Biggar 11, T. Larkin 14 and J. Kirwin 13 all hit merrily, and gathered their totals in quick time. . Extras produced a useful 23, Harpurts figures from 50 overs indicated outstanding consistency, five wickets each cost only about 18 runs. He bowled 25 maiden overs. The only batsman to treat him with oonfidence was Parkinson. Duncan ably assisted the Christ College student in taking three wickets-for 77 runs. Rangitikei, 199 behind, started disastrously. Biggar held Wysocki before he scored and X Marshall and T. Harpur were dismissed' with only 19 runs on the board. But the association of D. A. Omeron (78) and W. Hayward (30) stopped the rot and added S 3 runs. Hayward forsook his aggressive style of the previous day and played safely and soundly, allowing Cameron to gather the runs. Cameron set a captain’s example to the rest of his men when Rangitikei was up against odds. The chanceless display he gave demonstrated the value to Taranaki of his cheap dismissal by Biggar off Parkinson in his first strike. This was well realised as shot after shot reached the bank., No bowler troubled him, and it was Larkin’s honour finally to claim him l.b.w. Duncan played finely for 38 and was unfortunate to be run out The batsmen to face the bowling to-day are Fullerton-Smith (with a forceful 37 to his credit) and Low (8). Christensen emerged with an attractive bowling average, taking four wickets for 36 runs. Parkinson, Larkin, and Nasmith’s googlies accounted for th'p remainder of the wickets. Biggar’s peeping was again meritorious. Two balls passed him and a catch in the first over of the innings brought his tally of wickets to four for the match. A fine piece of combination between H. Barker and he resulted in the run out of Duncan. TARANAKI INNINGS ENDS. At 11.53 Rangitikei took the field, folic wed immediately by W. Dormer (28) aid N. Giddy (2), the not out men of :;ie previous day. Harpur opened proceedings and sent down the last two balls of his .interrupted over. Duncan commenced the attack from the north end. Conditions underfoot were far from perfect and it was noticeable that Duncan often slipped at delivery, while the batsmen moved and ran very gingerly. Harpur’s first full over was a maiden and his second accounted for Giddy for four, the smallest score the Country batsman has collected this season. Harpur in clean-bowling Giddy had brought his average to three for 31. 5—4 —187. A. Biggar hit Harpur’s last two balls for four each—one pull to leg and one clean drive past the bowler. With two of the next he had ten in four minutes and 200 was on the board. Low, the .spin bowler, replaced Duncan, and Cameron moved to the leg boundary. This strategy was successful, for Biggar clouted the second ball to Cameron and Low had one wicket for 51 runs. Biggar had scored 11 in breezy manner and the onlookers were disappointed to see him i - go. 6—11—200. The. Sigh School colt Larkin opened

his score with a perfectly, placed glide through the gully off Low. Harpur was still sending down maidens. Larkin witn a four and then' a six sent his score to 14, but Harpur’s next ball made pace and took the off stump. Harpur’s figures were four for 41. 7—14—217. Parkinson joined Dormer. The Taranaki captain was still batting in patient manner and had scored only six of the 34 added since the commencement. Duncan again came on in place of Low at the north end. Parkinson was playing in typical confident style and short-run-ning became a feature at this stage. H. Towers replaced ’ Duncan to bowl- the final uneventful over before the luncheon adjournment, leaving Dormer with 35. Parkinson with 9 and the total score 227 for seven wickets. Dormer and Parkinson recommenced batting against Duncan and Harpur. Parkinson immediately commenced to punish Harpur, scoring 10 off the first over and 18 off the third, including two sixes. Duncan put down two maidens to Dormer and then Parkinson scored nine off the third. Parkinson had passed Dormer’s tally of 39 compiled in 2 hours 20 minutes, and was 46. A new trundler, H. Lambert, displaced Harpur, to whom Parkinson was showing extreme partiality. The new bowler proved the-fast-est tried but with a 20 yards run had a very wild delivery, two balls in succession flying into Dormer s ribs. Dormer appeared unsettled and gave a hard chance in slips off Duncan. FullertonSmith touched the ball with his hand. A brace of twos in succession off Lambert, and after 45 minutes batting the half century was registered by Parkinson. Duncan’s next over accounted for Dormer, Hayward, the wicketkeeper, taking a great one-hand catch. The batsman had batted carefully for two hours and a-half for his 42 and had seen the score taken from 108 to 278. Duncan had two wickets for 44 runs. B—-42—278. J. Kirwin filled the gap, only to lose Parkinson caught in the outfield by Duncan off Harpur, who had replaced Lambert. Parkinson’s 50 was an attractive effort. Harpur five for 83 off 47 overs. 9—50 —280. The last man in was E. Christensen, the fast bowler. The Old Boys’ pair hit freely, although excellent fielding stopped the runs. A snappy third run to Christensen was loudly applauded. Short and quick running brought 290 on the board. Christensen was playing a straight driving bat and" with 18 to his credit and seven to Kirwin 300 was placed on the board. Towers relieved Harpur at the south end. Kirwin reached double figures and then at 13 was clean bowled by Duncan, Christensen being undefeated with 20. Taranaki was out for 311—199 ahead of Rangitikei. RANGITIKEI’S INNINGS. Christensen opened Taranaki’s attack against Rangitikei in the second innings, bowling to J. H. Marshall and W. Wysocki, Marshall scored one off the first ball but Biggar took a brilliant catch almost off the ground to dismiss Wysocki with one ball to go for “over.” Christensen had one for one.—l-0-1. Cameron replaced Wysocki and Nasmith opened the bowling from the north end. Two fours off Nasmith saw 10 show on the board, and then Christensen bowled. Marshall with a scorcher clean through the wicket. Marshall had scored eight and Christensen had two for three.— 2-8-14. The marathon bowler Harpur took centre. Giddy at fine leg let one through his hands but anticipation by Parkinson at Hirst slip stopped the four. A terrific slam by Harpur off Nasmith was almost held by Dormer at mid-on as it sped off the bat. Nasmith sent down two off-breaks which Harpur let pass, but the third was one to off and it tricked and clean-bowled him. He had made two. Nasmith’s figures were one for two. -3-2-19. W. Hayward faced Christensen as 20 showed on the board. Nasmith’s breaks were troubling Biggar as well as the batsman and the first bye was registered. Nasmith was unfortunate when W. Barkey dropped a straight catch at square leg off Hayward, who was then six. Taranaki’s fielding was slumping and short runs were coming apace. Cameron was 14 and the total after three-quarters of an hour’s play had reached 30. Parkinson and Betts, medium and medium fast, took over the bowling. H. Barker at cover was fielding brilliantly but Larkin let a simple two through his hands. With the score at 40 Cameron opened out to score two fours and a two off Parkinson, to bring his individual tally to 27.' W. Barker let one through his hands and a single resulted. The spectators were passing caustic comments, and when Nasmith let one go for a single to bring up 50 a murmur of disapproval came from the terraces. Cameron drove a carpet drive to H. Barker, who let it pass to the fence. The next one he stopped amid a round of ironical applause from the terrace. At the tea adjournment the board showed 63 Hayward 12 and Cameron 39. J. Kirwin opened the attack at the recommencement but Cameron continued

to score freely. Nasmith came on at the south end. Cameron with free and shots was scoring all round the field and his 50 appeared on the board, the total score being 80. Hayward was content to keep his end safe, scoring only from loose balls. Betts replaced Nasmith at the south end only to see 90 brought on to the board. Kirwin and Betts were being punished and as the century was reached Cameron passed his 60. Giddy replaced Kirwin, whose four overs had cost 16 runs. Parkinson replaced Betts at the south end. The change was instantly successful. Hayward, who had been covering his wicket with his pads for off balls, made the mistake of doing so to a straight one and Parkinson’s appeal was upheld. Hayward had subdued his free* style of the first innings and compiled a careful and valuable 30. The partnership produced 83 runs. Parkinson had taken one wicket for 23 runs. -4-30-102. Duncan took his stance against Christensen, who had replaced Giddy at the north end. A hard drive off Cameron was narrowly missed by Nasmith, who seemed to injure his hand in the attempt. Cameron was then 67. At 120 Larkin, High School’s chief bowler, was handed the ball in place of Christensen, a four, a two and a chance in slips, .all of Cameron. resulting. Dormer took a turn with the ball, relieving Parkinson. Larkin in his second over beat Cameron’s bat to catch his leg in front. Cameron’s display had been a brilliant one from start to finish and his 78 had brought his side out of an unpromising position. Larkin had taken one wicket for seven runs.—s-78-132. „ A. B. Marshall faced the bowlers. The batsmen were taking no risks and the score mounted slowly. Duncan reached 20 and then gave an awkward chance to Biggar off Larkin, but it bounced out of the wicketkeeper’s glove. Dormer almost grazed Duncan s stumps. Biggar stepped aside expecting the ball to hit the -wicket, it went for two byes. W. Barker let a four slide past him and trickle over the boundary. Kirwin missed a difficult snick off Marshall from Larkin’s bowling. Nasmith was tried again on in place of Dormer. Duncan was 36 at this stage and 160 showed on the board. _ BATSMEN PUZZLED. Nasmith had -both batsmen thinking and, to the amusement'of the south terrace onlookers, occasionally'"’ a batsman played to leg to find the ball shoot across to the off or vice versa. Betts was again tried in place of Larkin, whose seven overs for one wicket had cost 27 runs. At 171 disaster met Duncan. . A clean pick up and perfect throw in by H. Barker was accepted by Biggar and the hails were off before the batsmen reached the crease. He had scored slowly but gracefully and 38 was to his credit. -6-38-171. . , , ... Lambert chopped Nasmith s first hall into Biggar’s gloves but t}ie umpire ruled it “not out.” He hit a four off Betts’ first ball and continued to bat freely. Christensen was brought on at the south end and Lambert sent his first ball to Betts at silly leg. Christensen had three for 29.-7-6-178. . Fullerton-Smith was the ninth man in. Rangitikei was still 21 behind with three wickets in hand and had half am hour to bat. Christensen’s first ball of his twelfth over shattered Marshall s wickets, curling round the back of his legs. The batsman had held his end up for 43 minutes for his 12 runs. Christensen at this stage had four wickets for 30.-8-12-183. Low, the break bowler, faced the bowlers. Nasmith’s wrong ’uns still amused the spectators, but a good drive by Ful-lerton-Smith went for four. Parkinson replaced Nasmith with a quarter of an (hour to go to time. Low, playing a straight bat, stonewalled for a time, but opened out on Christensen and placed the ball to the bank, passing Taranaki’s first innings score. Fullerton-Smith skied one off Parkinson to mid-off but H. Barker could not grasp a difficult running catch. N. Giddy was brought on to relieve Christensen but his over cost nine runs. Fullerton-Smith was driving freely and Parkinson’s first ball went to the bank and his third over the bank. The fifth ball was dropped by Nasmith and the last over before the drawing of stumps had cost 11 runs. Rangitikei had scored 224 for eight wickets. The details are:— TARANAKI. First innings. W. Barker, b Harpur 30 (O. Nasmith, c Low, b Fullerton- [ Smith J® Ir. Barker, c Low, b Harpur . 49 S. Betts, c A. Marshall, b Duncan .. 44 W. Dormer, c Hayward, b Duncan .. 42 N. Giddy, b Harpur 1 A. Biggar, c Cameron, b Harpur .... 11 T. Larkin, b Harpur 1* V. Parkinson, c Duncan, b Harpur .. 50 J. Kirwin, b Duncan 13 E. Christensen, not o.it 20 Extras 23 Total ..*. * 311 Fall of the wickets: One for 23, two

for 85, three for 108, four for 174, five for 187, six for 200, seven for 217, eight for 278, nine for 280, ten for 311. BOWLING ANALYSIS.

RANGITIKEI. First Innings H2 Second Innings. J. H. Marshall, b Christensen 8 W. Wysocki, c Biggar, b Christensen 0 D. A. Cameron, 1.b.w., b Larkin .. 78 T. Harpur, b Nasmith 2 W. Hayward, 1.b.w., Parkinson 30 W. A. Duncan, run out 38 A. B. Marshall, b Christensen 12 H. Lambert, c Betts, b Christensen .6 R. Fullerton-Smith, not out 37 H. Low, not out 3 Extras 3 Total (for eight wickets) 224

0. M. R. W. Av. A. Harpur 50 25 92 5 18.4 W. Duncan 36 9 77 3 25.6 R. Fullerton-Smith 8 1 25 1 25 H. Towers ...... 10 2 23 — — H. Low 18 2 67 1 67 H. Lambert 2 0 2 — —

BOWLING ANALYSIS. W. 0, M. R. E. Christensen .... .... 15 3 36 4 0. Nasmith .... 15 1 47 1 V Parkinson . .... 13 2 45 1 3 ■Rpffs .... 9 3 22 0 J. Kirwin . .... 4 0 16 0 N. Giddy .... 3 0 12 0 T. Larkin .... 7 2 27 1 W. Dormer . .... 5 0 14 0