CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1728, 19 April 1913, Page 12

CRICKET.

[BY THE ISitEAKEH.]

5 All that ran he said of 1012-13 cricket - season, just closed, is that it has been i. ■ failure. At least it lias failed so far a: .- Saturday cricket is concerned, though Hit 1 Wednesday Association has forged ahead , merrily enough. 1 Perhaps no Wellington season cvoi v opened with, brighter prospects. It looked e as though the province would bo able- - to put a very formidable eleven in th< - held, but-alas! that "glorious uncertainty"!—tilings did not work out that way, and the rout in the Auckland match produced a very depressing effect. On previous occasions Wellington had at least managed to make «. stirring fight of it but this year—well, it was like some old superannuated ship running into an iceberg. Of course all this (and more) will bo laid, to the charge of the district scheme, though what the district scheme has to do with it is ono of those things which "no fellah can'understand." What really caused most of the trouble lvi >s the want of sympathy on the part ) of tho City Council in pushing on the , top-dressing levelling at tho Basin liei serve. What a weird story that would make if the whole truth were told about 3 li , X L slol 'J'. however, is better not l told at all. Tho delay .at the beginning j of tne season left its fang-marks in the , side of cricket. Good players had to > struggle along for some lima on outside f wickets, and many of them lost confidence t to some extent by making mediocre starts. 1 Compared with tho previous summer, i most of the "stars" failed to repeat their , form—or anything liko it. Appended are somo of the club averages:—

CENTRAL-BATTING. • . ■ «s ■ ,3 2 S 5 » § •-§• g -g -r" P3 K w -^ Naughton 233 69* 14 6 29.1 Beeehy. 232 113' 10 2 29.0 £> mth 195 >'79 9 1 24.3 Blarmres ~. 223 3S 10 0 22 3 Kinvig 170 5-4* 10 . 2 21.2 Hieksoa 1..' IS9 55 10 1 21.0 Little 00 32 6 1 18.0 Robinson 130 '57 11 1 13.0 H'Cardcll 39 17 4 1 13.0 l'atersou 110 45 13 2 10.0 CENTRAL-BOWLING. 0. R. W. Av'ff. Robinson U3 305 37 9.87 Blamires 7G.3 194 17 11.7 ■ Kim-is •—-. 10G.2 287 23 12.5 Naughton ....;.... Cl.l 201 12 16.7 Mitchell SO 320 -. 19 17.3 PETONE-BATTING. • The following are the batting averages for the Petone cricket team' for the 1912-13 season:- . , h 3 v> o oj ■ cj '.' . 5-.-I I "i B " c r e •■■: 12 1 "305 27.67 il Jlenamin .. 6 1 122 'Hi C'lt? s -. ••• 9 1 120 24.0 JlKenzie 9 0 180 20.G6 I'lnlayson 13 1 247 20.09 lregear 12 2 179 17.9 Daißlnsli 13 1 150 12.5 Bennett 8 2 701 11.6G Larber 11 0 123\ 11.18 Rowley 8 0 84 10.5 Uardhnm 13 1 122 10.34

NORTH-BATTING. a- h I » t P5 Kco h SO <! Blacklock ... 331- 98 14 1 25.46 Bray 300 112 14 1 23.07 Manning ... 23 23 2 1 23.00 Wilson 235 5G 12 0 19.58 Hidclkstone 225 5G 13 0 17.30 Wilkinson ... 172 73° 13 3 17.20 Crombie 205 80 12 0 17.08 Wvnvard ... 67 48 4 0 16.75 Phillips 171 37 13 1 14.25 Lambert 45 21 5 1 11.25 Luckie G2 18' 9 2 8.85 Casey CO 18 10 1 7.66 Southall 18 8 10 5 3.60 Berenclsen ... 1C 10 8 1 2.28

NOETE-BOWLING. £ » 3 - ~i a £ o oj > 3 ■ S !- O « - £ <i Sonthall 252 718 GO 10.40 Luckie 75 21(i 17 12.70 Casey 190 421 32 13.25 Bray 50 1S3 10 18.30 Hidcllestone ...... 33 115 0 19.10

EAST "A" BAITING. •is % "! '. 60 in c ' 0 2 £ g a ' S o 5° g ' Ph h J«5 K ™ <! •H. M'Girr 260 0' 1 121 33.2 W. Baker 244 12 3 . 81* 27.1 W. Gibbes 221 ■ 12 0 91 18.5 S. Hickson .... ICG 9 0 45 18.4 F. Midlaue ... 18S 12 0 39 15.8 li. Watson .... 00 0 2 33* 15.3 K. Tucker 131 !) 0 48 14.5 T. Johnson-... 09 8 3 28 13.4 J. Cullen 82 7 0 30 11.5 C. Grimnwtt.. 120 U 0 15 -10.10