BIG SCORE IN CHRISTCHURCH
DOUBLE CENTURY BY BLUNT.
CHRISTCHURCH, 20th Jan In senior grade matches on Saturday West Christchurch put up the big total of 508 against Riccarton. The innings was also remarkable from the fact not only that Blunt made the highest individual, score of the season, but that he put up a record for the number of runs scored in one over He had the regular bowlers well collared, and Caygill tried an over. Blunt hit seven balls out of the eight over the boundary for six each. Blunt made his total of 266 m two hours 45 minutes— a remarkable rate of scoring West Christchurch, playing against Iliccarton, made 508 (Blunt 266 Tal bot 52, Hayes 52, Haynes 65, Jarrett 3i. Bowling: Rix took three for 82 Powell one for 59, Killick two for 18 Fowell one for 69, Bain one for 66. Riccarton have lost'no wickets for 31 I ,oi/c V°?i iU first iunings made 159 (Smith-74, Jones 21). Bowling for St. Albans: Thomas took three for 45 Sandman toe for 57, Martin five for f- -f- Alban, s bave lost five wickets for 125. (Crawford not out 46, Norrie 06).
East Christchurch m the first innings made 178 (Gregory 28, Stringer 62). ?°»;k nS,£p Sydenham, M'Beth took five for 48, M'Ewin two for 77, Gasson two tor 6. isydenham have lost no wiek-pts for 80 (Young 45, M'Beth not out 26 )
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240121.2.23.7
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 4
Word Count
236BIG SCORE IN CHRISTCHURCH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in