MIDLAND AND INSTITUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 15

MIDLAND AND INSTITUTE

Midland batted throughout the afternoon against Institute on.No. 2 wicket at the Basin Reserve,- and ran up 275 runs for the loss of nine wickets. This respectable tally was largely the result of a great "knock" by W. Dustin, whose confident and sound bat accounted for 129 of the total runs scored. At the outset Dustin was content to plod along steadily, but at subsequent periods of his fine innings he brought a good range of strokes into very effective use, and' for some little time prior to his dismissal—the result of a brilliant catch by. Calvert in the slips—he was piling on the runs with ease. One of his big hits lifted the' ball out of the playing area, and in addition to this 6 there were twelve 4's in. his big score, in the .compilation of which there were two interruptionsone for afternoon tea and the other On account of rain. . Institute's bowlers experienced considerable difficulty in getting the first, two wickets, Tindill and Hutchings both playing confidently and well in partnership with Dustin. The total was 14-1 at the fall of the. second wicket. Later Ou it was realised that runs, were wanted more- quickly,1 and 'there was some forceful batting-toward the close of play,: O'Neill in particular hitting out vigorously. Clark, as usual, played a useful innings. Baker was absent, and Robertson, a former Wellington Club player, came into the team, but he was unfortunate in being caught from a rising ball which'-struck him on the thumb: Fortune was Institute's most .successful bowler, though it was n6t until his fourteenth-over that Jie took a'wicket. He then got four for 13 in four overs. In view of the.four hours' batting rule,. Midland's innings was declared closed at the end of the day's play. ■Details:— . MIDLAND. First Innings. Tindill, c Calvert, b Tucker 23 Dustin, .c Calvert, b Aldridge 129 Hutehings, b Fortune 37 Doneghue, c Hankiiis, b Fortune 3 I Robertson, b fortune 1 Lawton. b Fortune ]3 Clark, ibw, b Aldridge 22 Standidge, not out 14 O'Neill, c and b Rodgers 24 Bryant, run out 6 Cleverley, not out 0 Extras ~."..'.'.': 3 Total for nine wickets (innings declared closed 275

• Fall of wickets:—One for 48, two for .144, jthree. for 148, fbur for 150, five for .179,- sis for 2217 seven f0r"230,~ eighVTor 263,:.nine for 272, ten for 275.

Bowling Analysis.—Fortune ' took four wickets for-60 runs;Tncker, one for 58; Aldridge, two for 57; Bilby, none for 48; Rodgers, one for 31; Ritchie, none for 12.