Burnside beaten in club game

Press, 27 January 1986, Page 3

Burnside beaten in club game

Lancaster Park A doubled its lead in the Trusteebank Cup over cricket competition yesterday without so much as scoring a run or bowling a ball.

What had been scheduled as a full weekend of cup fixtures was reduced to one abbreviated game at Burnside Park yesterday. Sydenham did best in that encounter, beating the second-placed BurnsideWest by four wickets with seven deliveries to spare. While Sydenham accumulated three points over the week-end and all other teams gained two from their abandoned matches, Burnside had to settle for one.

Park A, on 10 points, now leads from Burnside (eight), Old Collegians and St Albans (seven each), Sydenham (six), East-Shirley, Old Boys, Marist and Riccarton (five each), and Park B (two).

An unbroken seventhwicket partnership of 57 runs between Wayne Higgins and Bryce Nicholson carried Sydenham through to victory after the early batsmen — Ken Julian excepted — had struggled to maintain the required run-rate of 4.56. The burly Higgins had retired hurt when struck in the mouth by a ball from David Farrant with his score at 14. Higgins went off for treatment carrying one of his front teeth and bleeding from a cut lip, but returned, helmeted, as Sydenham sagged to 89 for six. Nicholson, who has spent recent southern summers playing rugby league in Britain, gave no hint of a lack of match practice. His forceful driving through the covers was as effective as Higgins’s hefty hits to leg, and Nicholson ended the match with a majestic lofted off-drive for four. They had rattled on their 57 runs in only 40 minutes.

Julian, after some anxiety against the spin of Chris Marks, had accelerated Sydenham’s scoring. Higgins and Kevin Congdon scored 17 runs from the first three overs; the next 17 runs took 12 overs

to compile. The excellent bowling figures returned by Farrant and Marks contrasted with those of their teammates. Burnside had also finished with a spurt when it batted first in the 32-over game. Three run outs disrupted its progress and it also battled to take brisk runs from the bowling of Mike Dolden and Bob Carter. But Burnside left Sydenham a challenging target by taking heavy toll of the last overs of Stu Simpson and Julian. Scoreboard.—

BURNSIDE-WEST D. J. Boyle c Julian b Carter 2 S. A. Jeffery c Higgins b Simpson 8 R. W. Haglund run out 25 D. G. Farrant run out. 13 A. B. Sherwood b Carter 10 K. I. Collins c Dolden b Walker 36 A. J. Piper run out. . . 21 C. G. Marks not out . . 15' S. N. Bateman lbw b Carter 0 A. J. Hintz not out . . . 5 Extras (b 3, lb 5, w 2) 10 Total (for 8 wkts) 145 Bowling.— S. A. Simpson 7, 0, 40, 1; R. M. Carter 6,1, 29, 3 (w2); R. L. Walker 6,0, 23, 1; M. J. Dolden 7,1, 16, 0; K. N. Julian 6,1, 29, 0.

SYDENHAM K. C. Congdon b Marks 10 W. G. Higgins not out . 37 R. N. Meaclem c Jeffery b Marks 0 R. M. Carter run out. . 0 K. N. Julian b Bateman 42 E. A. Spence c Collins b Hintz 8 G. Gardner b Hintz. . . 6 B. W. Nicholson not out 32 Extras (lb 6, w2,nb 3) 11 Total (for 6 wkts) 146 Bowling.— S. N. Bateman 5.5, 0, 39, 1 (nb 1, w 2); D. G. Farrant 7,4, 10, 0; C. G. Marks 7,2, 13, 2 (nb 1); S. A. Jeffery 3,0, 19, 0; H. J. Hudson 2,0, 21, 0; A. J. Hintz 6,0, 38, 2 (nb 1). Umpires: P. Carrick and J. W. Grocott.