N.Z. GET RUNS EASULY

Chronicle (Levin), 30 June 1949, Page 5

N.Z. GET RUNS EASULY

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Received Thursday, 9:JU ia.-m, CHATHAM, June -2ft, j Fresh from their test success, New ■ Zealand fairly massacred; Combined Services, 1 'fepresentihg; the Royal .Navy, Army and •RQyal Air Force, v/ho 'cmfld score only iin 1 hr. 45 mins,, ,IBurke itakipgi ! tfiree f or *six. • • ' " i . In the same : tihie' arndi , Scott doubled that total arid th.e'n jwent 011 "to • esta-bl-ish a' -freSh bp&n-i jing : pgrtnership record j- of -247, • which is 18 better th-an/tfi|ir i'eefeht.stand. against Surrey. Sutcliffe-- hit" 144, his, secpfid;. ddn-1-tUry; in 3 hrs. -35 .mins. was caught at midwiekpt • pfi' vS.fi' uhsuccessful hook. He' hft f durfe/ He is now tw"o- short of ;his 1000 • runs. . Scott made 138 not out/ his third" century and 'his highest score of! the tour. He batted f 0-r Tour 'hbiirs' and hit 16 fours. ;:-V ■ '. . ■ The New Zealanders -'ended ttte day with 355 for 'five, giVing tlieili; a lead of 283. " The wicket was fastish, wi'th a: rather powdery surfaoe, ;aifd has one or two awkward patehes. ' The game, which is in Uid o'f service charities. was watched by the Priipe Minister, Mr. Attl'ee. Tt coimted as a first-class •match "for the majoritv of the p'layers ih the" Combined team are courity men,' though they do not always have as much pr'actice as they could"Vtish,' and recently beat Worcester. Details: — ■ ' . t COMBINED SERVICES. First Inhings. Poynton, b Cowie . . . .' Parnaby, b Cowie 0Answorth, b Cowie 0 May, c Mooney, b Hayes ...... 15 MannerS, c Wallace, b Burke . 36;" Ford, b Cr^well .0 ShirrefE , c S&ott, b -Cresswell 0 Deighton, b*|Hayes ... 0 Wilson, not- out . . x. . ...... 5 ; Gay, c Sutcliffe, b Burke-' . X . /0 Bedford, c Smith, b Burke--.'.-. *7 Extras ..... . . . . . . . 1 " Total ...A.c... 72 Bowling:# Cowie three for 22,' Burke thre#for 6, Cresswell twofdr 22, Hayes » for 21. NfW ZEALAND. • • First' Innfngs. Sutcliffe, c peightqn, b Shirreff '144 Scott, hot qut . 138 Reid, b Deighton 10 Wallace, b Deighton 4 Donnelly, c and b Deighton . 19 Smith, c Parnaby, b Bedford; : . 1;9 MoOney, '-not- "out". ...... ./..v.. -5: Extras ! . : >16 .Tatai for five. wicke.ts";. 1 . « '.355 Bowling,: ^ Deighton three Tpr 90, Shirreff one /for *98, " Bedford' one" for "35, Wllsdn-.hbne ■fbr' 49.