CRICKET CROSSROADS Bold Methods Will Pay

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30958, 14 January 1966, Page 11

CRICKET CROSSROADS Bold Methods Will Pay

Club cricket resumes in Christchurch tomorrow with the senior competition in an intriguing position.

This season, for the first time, the competition is to be divided in two after each

of the teams has met the others, the top four playing off for the championship. Tomorrow’s matches are the last before the division, and six teams have chances of winning places in the top four. The competition points, at the Christmas break, were: Lancaster Park 52, Sydenham 51, Old Boys 49, Riccarton 45, West ChristchurchUniversity 42, St Albans 36. Old Collegians 21, East Christchurch-Shirley 1. Could Be Embarrassing Lancaster Park plays St. Albans. and should St. Albans achieve a victory with maximum points—l4—it would be highly embarrassing for Old Boys, Riccarton and WestUniversity. Sydenham, playing EastShirley, has the easiest task, but the Old Boys-Riccarton match should be very close and hard-fought. West-University is well ahead of Old Collegians in the table, but Old Collegians has given better performances than its results suggest. All the teams are expected to be at full strength, or almost full strength, and this round will be the most interesting so far—with each team looking over the shoulder of the next one.

It will certainly be an occasion for bold methods, to achieve best results.