WITH BAT AND BALL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 171, 22 October 1941, Page 8

WITH BAT AND BALL

CRICKET SEASON OPENS

COMPETITION FIXTURE

At the Domain the cricket season opened with Paroa defeating P. and T. in a low scoring match. Batsmen, with little practice yet enjoyed, were not seeing them too well and bowlers were definitely on top. Going to the wickets firslt; Paroa compiled 90, Re ill being top scorer with 29> Goile (14) and A. Coutts (11) being the only other double figure scorers. Rigden bowled well, in 8 overs bagging 5 wickets for* 23, while in five overs Rivett took 3 for 14. G'hard delivered an economical seven overs only 14 being scored off him while he accounted for 2 wickets. P. ami T. opened badly and failed to make a stand Wells proving difficult to play. The side was out for only 51, J. Rivett being the only double figure scorer. Details were as follows: — Paroa H. Grant, b Chard 1 Reid, c Rivett b Rigden 29 C. Wells, c Rivett b Chard , 0 J. Goile, c Shaw b Rivett 14 A. Coutts c Shaw b Rivett 11 T. Grant, b Rivett ...... 1 D. Boon, b Rigden 4 N. Goile, b Rigden 3 Howat, not out 4 Hislop, c Chard b Rigden « Broadmore, b Rigden ... 0 Extras 7 Total 90 Bowling- Chard 2 for 14; Rigden r, for 23; Bennett 0 for 24: Rivett 3 for 14; Clark 0 for 19. P. and' T. Chard, b Wells 4Rigden. b Wells 7 Rivett. c Broadmore v Coutts .. 10 Bennett, b Coutts 1 Moore, b Wells . ... .> »> JcfTares, c and b Goile Clark, b Goile Shaw, b Goile Q B. Rivett, not out r > Warrell, b Wells 0 Hancock, b Wells 0 Extras 1 Total 57 Bowling: Wells 5 for 19; Grant 0 for f>; Coutts 2 for 11; Goile 3 for G; Reid 0 l'or 7.