GIRL CRICKETERS IN FORM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 23 December 1932, Page 11

GIRL CRICKETERS IN FORM.

Miss Te Rangi Relies on Speed, While Miss Forsyth Bowls Them Slow.

IN THE Mai Moa v. H.S. Old Girls’ match last Saturday, Miss Ncsta Forsyth, the Old Girls’ captain, took seven wickets for 17 runs, including four wickets with consecutive balls. Miss Blanche Te Rangi, leader of the Mai Moa senior eleven, secured her seven wickets at the cost of 9 runs.

The game was played on the Hagley No. 1 wicket instead of at the usual girls’ ground, but nothing daunted by the new surroundings and the many spectators, Miss Forsyth determinedly set about the task of lowering the Mai Moa colours. Bowling slows dead on the wicket and keeping an excellent length, she dismissed four batswomen with consecutive balls, and at the close of the innings her figures were: Seven for 17. Miss Forsyth is sports mistress at the Girls’ High School. Fast Bowler. Miss Te Rangi is the demon bowler of girls’ cricket. She does not bow! the Larwood leg theory, but she gets wickets just the same, and this season has taken nineteen for 24 runs. For a girl she develops great pace Teague, not out 7 Vaughan, b White 0 Hodgkinson, b White Matheson, c Bennie b White 1 I-lignett, lbw b White 1 Extras 13 Total 21* Bowling analysis. White, four wickets for 56 runs; Cade, one for 74: Shand, none for 33; Densem, none for 21* Balch. one for 57: Maclachlan, none for 16; Ray. one for 4. CANTERBURY. First Innings. Foster, b Hodgkinson 4 Cade, b Hodgkinson 10 Shand, c Ashby b Hodgkinson .... 5 Densem, b Hodgkinson 10 White, c Hodgkinson b Rose 22 Hobbs, c Sparks b Hodgkinson 7 Maclachlan, lbw b Rose 3 Rennie, not out 20 Kay, c Marshall b Hodgkinson .... 7 Lake, b Hodgkinson 4 Balch, b Marshall I Extras 3 Total 120 Bowling analysis.—Rose, two wickets for 38 runs: Hodgkinson, seven for 44; Biair, none for 6; Marshall, one for 10: Teague, none for 5. JUNIOR MATCH. Greymouth Marist won by 60 runs on the first innings. Scores: Marist, 218 for five wickets (declared)? Canterbury, 15S.

and flights the ball well, while an occasional off -br ea k spells disaster to the opposing batswoman. Fast bowler, solid bat, and excellent slips field, Miss Te Rangi is one of the best allrounders in girls’ cricket, and on present form is certain of representative honours. “ I like cricket,” said Miss Te Rangi. “ I would not play any other summer sport. “ But,” she added naively, ” I was nervous before so many spectators last Saturday.”