ON A WET SATURDAY.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 29

ON A WET SATURDAY.

Whilst on a cricket theme, hero are a few armchair problems that were going around amongst a number of cricketers who were forced into the pavilion on a recent wet Saturday afternoon. Some of the questions asked pertained to the law and practice of the game, such, for example, as "how many wickets have fallen when the ninth man goes in to bat, exclusive of temporary retirements?" Figures, howover, came in for most discussion, and here is one question that tripped a surprisingly large number of would-be solvers. Jones and Hopkins each had a batting average of twenty-four in, a recent match, both completing their two innings. How many did the latter get in his second essay, at the wickets, if his first innings score was ten runs less than Jones made in his second visit to the batting creases, the latter being run out for one in his first innings? And now here is one for pen or pencil if considered necessary. The figures of ten batsmen in an innings represented an average of eighteen runs each, all being "out." How many runs did the other batsman make (assuming for problem purposes that his also was a completed innings), if he scored twenty runs more than the average of the whole eleven in the inn-j ings? ■■ '••:- •