Cricket.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11814, 7 January 1903, Page 7

Cricket.

EXHIBITION GAME

A return match of an exhibition character was played yesterday between Wanganui Thirteen and! an English TAvelve. Both sides went .in for fast* scoring, and some fine batting was steeil on both sides. No less than 500 runs were scored1, in the course of the day's play in 3^ hours. Each side gave all its bowlers a chancei, so that the attack was not ahvays strong. The Englishmen Arent in first, "and Burnup and Stauning put up 80 for the first Avicket. Both played very attractive cricket, Bumup making some magnificent drives. He, however, made some mistakes, and was twice missed. Stanning. went first, being caught by Fannin off a hard hit in the ■ dountry. Fane and Johnson were each caught off W. B. Gave, and then Bosanquet came in and began to lav about himnn fine style. During Ids innings 100 Tuns were adided in half an hour. Burnup Avas caught for 48, which included eight boundaries', and Williams came in and made 29, with seven fourers. All this time Bosanquet was " hitting magnificently. He is immensely muscular, and though his style is not graceful, it is very effective. Be put the ball out of the ground no less than seven times, and made 13 other boundary hits. He actually hit seven successive balls to the boundary. There -were, of course, some mishits, and he was leniently treated by the field), being missed no less than five times. All the same his 111 in 34- hits was the kind of innings very seldom seen i?n Wanganui. He hit 23 off one over. Leatnana also gave a .good display, making four boundaries in the course of his 27. At 209 for nine -wickets the luncheon inisval was taken, and the visitors declared 'their innings closed. After lunch an even more remarkable display of scoring was giv.-n by the Marshall brothers, who put on ?02 runs whi'.e they;* Avere tog-ether, in k-s than an hour and a half. They, moreover, made all their runs along the ground, hazily a ball being lifted, and no chances given Several bowlers were tried, but the bes*< were nob put on at first, and the professionals "were reserved for those maCib. ;s which are part of the tour. All the same, at one time the Englishmen were undoubtedly trying their best to get the batsmen out, j Burnup and Bosanquet bowling all they | knew, but .they did not even reduce the rate of scoring! J. Marshall hit 19 fours, and G. Marshall 15. The former made 14 off one of Burnup's overs. At the dose of play the score stood at 209 for tw.*. wickets. The- Englishmen were very complimentary to the batsmen, consider!),;? them by. far the best they had yet *een in the colony. The visit of the En£? &h^>< r< will undoubtedly do much good to cricket here. The takings were £150 for the three days. Scores: — ENGLISHMEN, Burnup, c. J. Marshall, b, Gordon.... 48 Stanning, o. Faimin, b. Gordon a 35 Fane, c. Gordon, b. W. B. Gave 0 Johnson, c. Francis, b. W. B. Gave ... 0 Bosanquet, c'Luxford!, b. Stewart 11l Williams, c. Gordon, b. Bannister ... 29 Warner, not out ..' 23 Whatman), b. Bannister o Leatham, b. Faiuiin .27 Taylor, c. J. Marshall, b. Bannister ... 0 Thompson, not out 1 Bye* • ;•■■ 10 Total for nine wickets 290 Bowling Analysis.—Bannister three for 44, in fouil overs; Stewart, one! for 46,. in nino overs ; Riddiford, none for 17, in three overs; H. B. Cave, none for 31, m four overs; W. B. Cave, two for 17, in four overs; Gordon, two for 27, im sijc overt* 5 Francis, none for 26, in three overs*; Ful-lerton-Smith, none for 30, in three overs; Marshall, none for 35, im three: overs; Fannin, one for 13, iv two overs; total, 286, in 41 overs. WANGANUI. Fannin, c. Bosanquet, b. Taylor ; 6 Bannister, c. Johnson, ■-• Warner 1 J. M. Marshall, not out 109 G. L. Marshall, niot out 84 Extras .'. • 9 Total , ,- 209 Bowling Analysis.—Warner, one for 39, in seven overs; Taylor, one for 31, in five overs ; Johnson, none for 22, in four overs ; Fane, none fox1 14, in two overs ; - Burnup, none for 29, in seven overs; Bosanquet, none for 26, in six overs; Whatman, none for 25, in tAVo overs; Williams, none for "v in one over ; total, 199, in 34 overs. The greatest credit is due to the secretary (Rev. J. M. Marshall) of the local Association, who put in an enormous amount of work perfecting details for the match. The thanks of the people of WangunuUare due to Mr. Marshall for his ■efforts in this respect. The Englislunen sa-v unhesitatingly that there should be no question of doubt about the Rev. Marshall being chosen in the "Slew , Zealand team. They consider he is much the soundest batsman they have met so far, and gave him unstinted praifcio for his fine display here. If the New Zealand seloctoiß give Marshall a chance, and he has no ill-fortune, he will quickly justify his selection. __________