WELLINGTON CRICKET

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 99, 21 November 1941, Page 3

WELLINGTON CRICKET

Two Centuries Scored In Senior Matches D. S. WILSON’S HAT-TRICK > That batsmen are at last beginning to get a sight of the ball «as proved by the frfer scoring in the Wellington Cricket Association’s senior championship competition on Saturday afternoon. . Wickets were on the', easy, side, but a stiff northwesterly wind enabled bowlers to flight the ball in the air. Highlights of the play were centuries by J. R. Lamason for Wellington College Old Roys against Midland, and by A. X. Thompson 'for Army against University, and the hat; trick by D. S. Wilson, the Army captain Brilliant bowling by D. S. Wilson, who took ven wickets .for 35 runs, including the hat-trick, enabled the Army eleven to dismiss University at the Basin Reserve for 99 runs. The Army batsmen found the wicket to their liking, and ran" up 362 for seven wickets. Thompson, who hit 14 fours, reached tne even century b l ' fore retiring, and D. S. Wilson hit six sixes-and- four fours in his dashing,72. Otway and Sutherland also scored freely. Declaring their first innings closed with 186 runs on for the, loss of nine wickets. Air Force beat Johnsonville at Kelburn Bark by 31. runs. Asbenden, McCarthy, Hawthorn and Smith scored freely for Air Force. The only batsmen to get going in Johnsonville’s modest innings of 155 were Williams, Fuller and Handley. Madden bowled well tor Air Force, and Barsloe and Handley for Johnsonville.