CRICKET

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 3

CRICKET

® The Game and the Players

C ITY AM> SUBURBAN NOTES (By 41 COVER POINT.*’) Play on Saturday last was almost •void of interest and although the ickot's showed a decided improvement on those provided at the commence- * ;it of ilie season the batting was it limit- any sparkle. The weather was oh I and there was no excuse, except whops that with three weeks spell id scarcely any practice, a man. is apt lost' his form. The following table ops the positions of the senior teams the conclusion of ilie second round:

UPPER IMCXARTOX v. AVOOLSTOX. Vft< d,i y\s play was concerned, and in which ■ W’oolston obtained a lead of cno run on the first innings, the utter collapse of AYoolston oil the second day gave Upper Riccarton an easy win by over a hundred runs. Upper Riccarton opened their second innings with Wright and Bush. For the first few overs tlio runs came < slowly, and then Bush opened out and : quickly had a score to his credit, while - Wright had notched only throe singles. With 23 one ill© board Peacock 4 got a good one past Bush. Raxworthy got his leg in front of one from Pea- ' cock, when two had been added to tho score, but Wright and Guiney livened ] tip tho scoring by smart running between the wickets, aided by looso field- 1 ing and bad throwing in. - 1 nedy, who had been keeping a. good 1 length and bowling steadily. P. Winter was dismissed by tho same bowler be- ‘ fore he had scored and M array joined 1 Wright, who was playing patiently and 1 scoring off all the looso ones. The partnership was the most interesting of the innings and produced 40 runs before Wright was run out aftor compiling 31 by patient cricket. Mur- ; ray was batting well and scoring freely jdl round tho wicket, but none of the i ether batsmen reached double figures. j Olsen wa's clean bowled by Kennedy < first ball and Townsend hit two singles and a six before being bqwled by Tun- 1 or, who also got Tfibden before he had ‘ scored. AY. Fleming looked like set- 1 tling down when Turner disturbed his 1 wickets and Holmes and Murray car vied tho score t<> 148 for the last wicket \ M array carrying his bat for a well ! plnved 5< ’•. which included nine fours. Kennedy bowled steadily throughout ' the innings. He delivered I*2 overs for * r»3 runs and secured four wickets. Turner came on as second change and met with great success and secured three * v iokets in three overs at a cost of 23 Tie* fielding of the 'W’oolston team w; . very poor and Mnrrav was missed ] b- dlv when cmlv 20. Quite 20 runs wore . added to the total l*v T»oor ground ‘ work and numerous boundaries could ( Invo been saved by smarter work in f t h • field. ... i Wools!on commenced tbeir inning* ] iv *:lv. losing tbe first wicket when 1 o»dv two had been scored. Five wicket*? ] nvvp dow n for 20 and six for 34 and ♦ !,<* three last wickets onlv T>roduee f | j runs, the whole side b«jt»or nut for i ?f runs. whiMi was less than Turner's \ - ore in the first innings. was 1 (he nnlv one to reach double figures, y bis 13 being a lucky contribution. t

Oh-on and Guiney wore the on.l\ bowlers necessary in th© short inning* which lasted half an hour. during j which twelve over-. were delivered. Olsen got -ix wickets for 14 runs and ; Gnines three for 19 . V* right was behind the stumps tor Upper Riecarton and gave a very ere ditable pcrformaiicc. SI ALBANS v. GREEKS. Tho long grass at Sc Albans Park spoilt all chances • orthodox batting and boundaries wore few and far between . Only eight of Green’s team turned up and AforrK. tho wicket- i keep* r. who 1 injur< d his hand dur iog ilie week, was unable to don the j gloves and hatted one hand. If French kept the xvickets in his stead ; and gave a very fair display. At the end of tho first day s play j Greens had made 119 and the Saints j had lost four wickets for 2S runs, j Continuing their innings on Saturday, l St Albans made a poor show ing against j .Tones and were all out for 45. Colville ; 11 being the onl\ doublet figure scorer, j .1. Jones had ihe bulk of the bowl- j ing and secured seven wickets for 15 i runs in cloven overs. Green’s batting was little better ! than that of their opponents. Only one batsman, Jones, was able to make any stand and the innings closed for 4-1 runs. Dobbs bowled successfully for six overs, during which he secured three wickets for 5 runs. Stammers sent down two overs, one of which was a j maiden, and got two wickets for six j runs. Requiring 119 runs to win, St. Al- j bans commenced their task at 5 p.m., but were all dismissed in an hour for G(i runs. L. Watson 20 and Pure!pm 12 were the top scorers. AY. Dawson and Jones secured most of the wickets, the former bowling fiv© overs for eight runs and securing I five wickets. Jones got three wickets for 29 runs. JOTTINGS. Next. Saturday Greens meet AYoolston and if the match is played -it AVoolston Park on the concrete wicket it should ho a close game as AVoolston arc a much better team on their own ground than on the grass pitches. The first representative match for the Sub-Association’s challenge shield commences at Lancaster Park to-mor-row morning between Ellesmere and tlic; City and Suburban Associations. The final .-©lection to represent the latter association is as follows:- R Langford (captain), AY. Lawsou. G. Robertson, J. Jones. L. Watson, G Dobbs, P. Peacock. J. Worrail. A. Olsen. D. Alurray, AV. Wright and H. Holmes. Although there is no bowler of the standard of Bugg oi Rix in the team, there is no lack of changes, there being no less than eight very fair bowlers to call upon If Olsen is in form he will trouble any team and Jones is bowling very well and consistently this year. As changes there sir© AY or rail. Robertson. Peacock. Dobbs, Lawson and Langford, so that) there can be frequent changes if necessary. The side is strong Li batting and ©iven n good wir-ket should not be disposed of for le. s than two hundred runs bv am- country team. In th© event of tho town team proving successful 1 should like to see the match against North Canterbury, which Ims been set down for December 13 and 14. played at Rangiora. as it would give tho game a lilt along in the country.

3 Pt. .2 i*t. win®, wins. Losses. Pts. Green’s ... 2 0 0 f, Upper Kiccarton .1 » 1 W oolpton . 0 1 3 2 8 Albans ... 0 O 2 0