CENTRAL DISTRICTS FACE INNINGS DEFEAT BY WELLINGTON TODAY

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 December 1950, Page 6

CENTRAL DISTRICTS FACE INNINGS DEFEAT BY WELLINGTON TODAY

WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA).—Tile new Centra! Districts cricket team fell short of Plunket Shieid standard when it was almost routed in two cl the three scheduled days at the Basin Reserve, Wellington. Unlucky in having to bowl on the first day in a near gale, the side nevertheless had perfect conditions for batting on Saturday, but at stumps had made 82 and 129 for eight wickets in reply to Wellington’s 291 for nine declared. The scoring rate was deadly slow. The Central District batsmen were just not capable of getting on top of the judiciously handled Wellington attack. Apart from Ongley, Chapple (formerly of Canterbury) and the Taranaki left-hander, Miller, a very moderate resistance was offered to the useful Wellington attack. Reid, Murray, Randall, Dempster and Rabone all collected */ickets. Dempster was probably as impressive as any bowler with his well flighted slows, but most of the batsmen were reluctant to move down the wicket to him. Scores:— WELLINGTON First Innings S. McVicar, st. Botting, b Chapple 18 R. A. Vance, lbw, b Cresswell 22 G. O. Rabone, lbw, b Beard 42 H. E. Dollery, run out ... 47 J. R. Reid, b Cresswell 22 E. W. Dempster, b Chapple ..... ..... 36 F. L. H. Mooney, b Cresswell ... 2 R. T. Barber, b Cresswell - .. 72 R. McK. Murray, run out ... 5 J. F. Jones, not; put 14 C. L. Randall, not out 0 Extras (byes 6, leg byes 5) 11 Total (for 9 wkts. declared) 291 Fall ol wickets: 31, 61, 122, 151, 169. 177, 215 , 288, ,291. Bowling: Leggat, 22 overs, 2 maidens, 29 runs, 0 wickets; Cresswell, 33, 5, 106, 4; Beard, 20, 5, 44, 1; Cave, 26, 5, 57, 0; Chapple, 14, 2, 29, 2; Meuli, 1, 0,5, 0; Renney, 5,1, 10 0. CENTRAL DISTRICTS. First Innings. E. M. Meuli, c Barber, b Dempster 17 D. W. Bowden, lbw, b Randall 4 J. A. Ongley, b Reid 15 M. Chapple, c Rabone, b Murray 14 L. S. Miller, b Rei- - 0 T. P. Reaney c Barber, b Dempster 4 H. B. Cave, c McVicar, b Jones 5 I. B. Leggat, c Mooney, b Murray 0 G. S. Botting, b Randall 4 D. D. Beard, not out -- 11 G. F. Cresswel), b Randall __ t> Extras - - - 8 Total - - 82 Bowling: Jones, 10 overs, 6 maidens, 7 runs, 1 wicket; Murray, 16, 5. 23, 2; Randall, 10.3, 0, 23, 3; Dempster. 1 3,15, 2; Reid 4,3, 1,2; Rabone, 2,0, 4. 0. Fall of wickets: One for 11; 2 for 41, 3 for 41, 4 for 43, 5 for 51, 6 for 62, 7 for 63, 8 for 70, 9 for 78. Second Innings. Bowden, c Dempster, b Murray .... 4 Meuli, c Reid, b Randall 4 Ongley, c Barber, b Dempster __ 30 Chapple, c Dempster, b Rabone 20 Miller, not out - 41 Reaney, c Barber, b Rabone 5 Cave, b Dempster 1 Leggat, c Murray, b Dempster .... 0 Botting, b Randall - H Beard, not out —— 7 Extras - 6 Total for 8 wickets 129 Bowling: Randall, 9 overs, 2 maidens, 13 runs, 2 wickets; Murray, 11, 4, 13, 1; Reid, 5,1, 10, 0; Dempster, 18, 6, 40, 3; Rabone, 15, 2, 47, 2. Fall of wickets: 1 for 11, 2 for 13, 3 for 66, 4 for 67, 5 for 74, 6 for 81, 7 for 81, 8 for 115.