CRICKET MATCH

Dunstan Times, Issue 343, 20 November 1868, Page 3

CRICKET MATCH

The match between thetownsand country came off on Wetnesday last, on the Clyde ground. The weather was most unpropitious for the match, and the wonder is that it was not postponed for a more favorable oppotunity. The ground between the wickets was beautifully soft and springy. No less than five dray loads of sods carted a few clays previously from Glassford’s and Gregg and Turnbull’s station were laid down, and the gravelly soil of the Dunstan Flat removed- If the Club will only keep

' the newly laid turf well watered, their bowling ground will have no equal. The towns teatp. with tw r o exceptions are a sorry agglomeration of muffs, and they excused themselves on the grounds that their best men were absent, of this fact, those who witnessed the match and braved out the cold and rain, had no doubt. Towns first innings;— Ratcliffe c. Turnbull 19 Preshaw b. Burke 11 Bankhead b. Handyside 0 Bayly c. Be la Tour 2 Tobin c. Burke 1 Moss c. Turnbull 0 Bate e. Turnbull 0 Fraser c. Turnbull 0 Christophers c. Turnbull 0 M'Bain c. Turnbull 0 Stanbrook not out 0 Byes 10 I .eg Byes 1 Wides 7 51 Second innings. Bate c. Turnbull 5 Stanbrook b. Handyside 0 Christophers b. De la Tour 0 Moss c. Turnbull 0 Fraser b. Turnbull 1 Bankhead b Do la Tour 0 Preshaw b. Do la Tour 0 Byes 8 Leg Byes 3 Wides' 3 20 Country—First innings. Stronaeh b. Preshaw ' 24 De la Tour b. Preshaw 27 Turnbull b. Preshaw 0 Whitfield c. an! b. Preshaw 11 Handyside l.b.w. b, Preshaw 0 Burke b. Preshaw 1 C. Do la tour c. Bankhead 4 M‘Namara b. Bato 2 R. M. Turnbull c. Moss 0 George b. Preshaw 0 MTlroy not out 2 Byes 10 Leg Byes 2 Wides 13 Total 90 The wickets were drawn at 5 o’clock, the hour agreed upon. The Town Team had no chance of success, even if their remain--1 ing four men hail gone in,