Cricket

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16582, 15 November 1921, Page 3

Cricket

CITY AND SUBURBAN NOTES, Little fault could be found with the weather conditions for the resumption of the competitions on Saturday last, and the wickets on Sydenham Park were in good order. Some of the outside grounds still require a' good deal of attention, especially the outfields. The two senior matches at Sydenham Park provided some interesting batting and some fair scores were registered. At Paparua the home team batted most of the afternoon, but they are evidently a two-man team, as the two opening batsmen made 103 runs out of a total of 133. ST ALBANS v. PAILWAY. After their collapse in the previous match against Green's, Railway' were looking lor an easy win over St Albans. The latter team, however, made good use of the wicket and, following the lead of the two opening batsmen, played careful cricket. Ay a result 180 runs were recorded on the board when the last wicket fell. Dobbs and Arnott opened against the bowling of Hardie ! and Stevens, and for the first few overs ! runs came slowly. With 37 on Stevens clean bowled Dobbs for 22. Arnott continued to bat cautiously, and with Shrimp ton carried the total to 69 before the latter was caught off Stevens after a very fair exhibition of batting. Ptirdom shaped well for a score, but could not restrain himself. He attempted to hit a straight one from Stevens. C. Winter came on late in the innings and gave the most interesting exhibition of bathing in the innings. He should have gone in earlier. His in- j ning.s lasted well over hall' an hour, in j which time the score increased by half j a century, of which he contributed half the number. Colville hit hard for his L 9 and bus the makings of a good batsman, but he lacks patience. Hardie and Stevens were the only Railway' bowlers to meet with any success, each taking four wickets for about 50 runs. With only eight men and a substitute the Railway fielding was weak and many runs were scored that should have been saved. Railway lost their first wicket cheaply, but Cross and Hardie made a stand and 43 runs were on for the second wicket. The next wickets only' produced 20 runs, and when stumps were drawn four wickets were down for 64. P. Winter has had the most success with the hall so far and has secured three wickets for 21 runs in seven overs. LETTER CARRIERS v. GREENS. | Greens won the toss and decided to

put their opponents in first. The opening batsmen made good use of their opportunity and 50 were on before tho partnership was broken. Murray has improved a great deal in his batting, and both he and Peters aro hard men to shift- Peters and Watt put up a, lively partnership during which tho score was carried to 115 mostly by Watts, who treated all howling alike. He hit three sixes and five fours in his severe of 51, and was eventually caught by Duggan off Dougall’s bonding. 'I he sensation of the innings came with Lavery securing the hat trick with the seventh, eighth and ninth wickets, when the score stood at 165. Bailey and Gray added a. score for the last wicket and then a rout of proper understanding led to the former being run out easily. Lavery secured the best bowling figures with four ior 15, although lie bonded three overs in the early part of the innings without success. The fielding of Greens’ team w’as very lax. and there were a great many byes that should have been saved. Greens opened badly and had lost three wickets for 12 runs when Langford and Robertson got together, and 59 were on when Langford was beaten all the way by Bugg- The next three wickets fell at 66. and it looked like a certain follow on when Jones got going nicely. Along with Lavery lfh carried the .score to 83. La-very and Duggan went iu the same oyer, but Jones and Batstone carried the total to 120 and played out time. Watt. Bugg and Olsen equally divided the wickets, the former securing the best average. With 65 runs behind and one wicket to fall Greens will have to go carefully to pull the match off. However, next Saturday’s game should j be interesting. PAPARUA v. WOOLSTON. With tiie exception of the opening pair the Paparua team made a very poor stand against Woolston. L. M’Nae and A- Mackie. sen., put on 88 for the first wicket, but thereafter the wickets fell with painful regularity until the innings closed at 133. M Nae gave a very easy chance to Riddals off his owu bowling when he was in the twenties, hut the chance was not accepted. Otherwise his innings was good and his batting crisp and smart. Mackie was more cautious and gave no chances, but his batting lacked sting and many chances of scoring were missed. Worrall bowled successfully and secured five wickets for 36 runs. Woolston commenced badly, and had lost four -wickets for 26 runs. Worrall and Peunells livened up the batting a little, and 20 were added for the fifth wicket when stumps were drawn.