RANGITAIKI CRICKET

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 227, 18 October 1940, Page 8

RANGITAIKI CRICKET

THIS WEEK'S DRAW Games to be played at tlie weekend under the control of the Rangitaiki Cricket Association are as lows:^Post and Telegraph v Cenral, at the Domain. Taneatua v Paroa, at Taneatua. Taneatua has replaced Hillcrest in the draw as Hillcrest were unable to field team. P. and T. cricket team to play Central at the Domain at-9.30 a.m. sharp: E. Chard, L. Bennett, R. Kecsing, T. Dixon, H. Hudson, B. Keepa, J. Rivett, D. Keen, B, Penny J. Nowland, M. Plamus, W. Crawford. WAR-TIME CRICKET SECOND ECHELON'S GAME (From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Great Britain) Somewhere in Britain, Sept 16. Recent unexpected changes in the training and service programme of the N.Z.E.F. (U.K.) have interfered with games fixtures. Nobody complains of that; sport is only incidental to our presence in this country, and all hands would much rather get on with the real job than be kept hanging about playing cricket or. tennis. None the less, it would have been a pleasure to have visited the Australians' camp for the return cricket match, now postponed and likely to be abandoned for this season, because of graver things to concern the two sides.

The New Zealand team for this match would have been slights stronger, on-paper, .than that which beat Australia at the first meeting. Also it would have been more experienced. Many of our regular players hardly had a bat in their hands last season, and some in the team had not played regularly for several seasons. None the less, it gave a very heartening display against the Aldershot Command just before we left the base camp. The Command XII (in which normally Eric Tindill would have been keeping wickets) included two English internationals —B. H. Valentine and A. L. Gover —former captains of Yorkshire and Oxford University—A. B. Sellers and M. M. Walford—a Cambridge Blue, another Oxford Blue, and three other county players. Against such talent it was a noteworthy performance to play a creditable draw. Command declared at the tea interval with nine down for 248; and at stumps i New Zealand had lost six for 162. Gover's one wicket cost him 63 runs, and 53 were hit off Watts of Surrey for three wickets. On the other hand S. H. Betts, of Taranaki, took six for 59, including two with successive bafls at the close pf one over, the second being Watts, clean bowled. Scores: — Aldershot Command. E. H. Moss lbw b Betts 32 M. M. Walford c Tindill b. Betts . 13 E. A. Watts b Betts 0 A. B. Sellers c Monk b Betts .. 51 B. H. Valentine b Thompson .. 91 W. S. Lithgow, not out 35 K. G. Harvey lbw b Betts .... 0 D. G. Wilson c Stace b Thompn son 2 R. T. Northcotc-Green b Thompson . 12 A. L. Gover b Betts .......... 5 K. B. Stanley, not out \ 3 Extras 4 Total for 9 wickets 218 Bowli,ng: Betts 6 for -59; Thompson 3 for 82. N.Z.E.F (U.K.) C. P. Warehavn c Harvey b Watts 55 E. W. Tindill b Watts . 70 If, E. Ilea ney lbw b Wilson .... 14 W. B. Couplaml c Moss b Wilson 6 P. El. Stace b Watts ...... 4 A, B. Gillespie, not out ........ 1 P. G. Monk 1) Gover fj' S. H. Bell.s, not out 3 Extras i Total for C wickets 162 Bowling: Gover 1 for 63: Watts 3 for 53; Wilson 2 for 41.