Reid's Brilliant Form In Final Cricket Trial

Chronicle (Levin), 29 January 1949, Page 5

Reid's Brilliant Form In Final Cricket Trial

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CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 28. The second day's play in the final erieket trial match at Lancaster Park today foliowed much th'e same course as- the first. The only batsman to im prove liis p'rospects was J. Reid (Wellington), who was almost a eertainty before the gakie st'arted, Und agkin tlie ' bqwlers failed to distinguish theraselves. Refd batting for. The Rest was at his best in se'onng 117. He treated the tather mediocre bowling on its merits. Reid's allroupd ability should ensure a sucebskful tdllr fof hiin. Bowling for New Zealand, the young Auckland fast ruedium bowlef, J H'ayes, took fiVe wi'igkets. for 73 r'uns figures which would suggest that he was the answer to one of the selectors' hiany problems. For his firsf big match of the season— his cricket bas been interrupted by illnesa — it was a good

performance but it would not be unfaii j t6 say that his figures were flatteriiig The -vyeathef was bitterly cold and a sti'ong sou'therly fVind did more to hamper the bowlers than to assist theib Reid played an innings ttiature beyOhd his years, and the experience he gaih!on tlie touV sh'ould devfelop him into 8 batsman of out.flanding ability. Al. though he showed the judgment of 9' veteran Reid hit whenever possible with : ■tlie enthusiasm of a schoolboy. He has an abundanc.e of strolces, but he pleaSdd the crowd most by- quick running b'e twbeii the wickets and hearty hittin}. whenever the oecasion denianded,, _fU threw his Wi'Cket aw'ay making a tHj mendous effoft to hit Snedden o.ut of the ground-. After G. Burke, the . Auckiand sloW bowlef, had taken t\v, wickets in an over Reid rediiced hiin to his proper stature by scoring 12 bfl tliree coiise'6\itive balls. • II. B. Cave went through an agoiiising 62 miniltes and it did thc bowliEg little credit that h& was permitted to stay that long. _ Indeed it took the New Zealand bowlers nearly an hdu> and three-quarters to dispose of CaVo, Kent, Buft't ahd F. Cfeksfvhll, hot a particularly proud. perf onnance.