MALLARD'S BOWLING
MATCH AT CHRISTCHURCH
(By telegraph— L Jress Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, January 1. The Wellington Mercantile Cricket League representatives made .an auspicious start in the annual game with the Christchurch Suburban Association today, and finished up 118 runs ahead on the first innings. Christchurch was sent in to bat a second time, and at stumps had scored two runs without loss. Play will continue tomorrow. Features of a game which was played on a perfect wicket and under ideal weather conditions were the fine batting of Aldridge and McKenzie, who saved an awkward position for Wellington by putting on a partnership which carried the score from 80 to 149 for the sixth wicket; the , first-class ground fielding of the visitors; and the brilliant bowling of Crook and Mallard, especially the latter, who was credited with being the most promising slow bowler seen in Christchurch since the days of Merritt.
Details of the play are as follows:— WELLINGTON. ■ First Innings. Liddicoat, b Mahoney 29 Jupp, b Waine Martin, c Brook, b Mahoney » Crook, b Mahoney 7, McKenzie, c Waine, b Mahoney .. Su Melville, c Waine, b Mahoney .. 5 Aldridge, c and. b Waine 58 Mallard, b Stokes ■■•■ » De Clifford, c Waine, b Mahoney U Swain, not out *j| Stiver, c Davis, b Stokes 10 Extras _j^ Total 23 1 Bowling.—Mahoney took six wickets for 83 runs, Stokes two for 38, Waine two for 54, Davis none for 19, Gordon none for 11, Cawtheray none tor °\ CANTERBURY. First Innings. Barnes, c Stiver, b Crook 0 Gordon, b Mallard 38 Waine, b Mallard ? Cullen, b Stiver *> Stokes, not out -*1 Cawtheray. st Martin, b Mallard . o Harris, b Mallard •> Brook, c Crook, b Mallard 10 Davis, run out 1 Mahoney. c McKenzie. b Mallard 7 Mitchell b Crook 0 Extras j Total uc
Bowling.—Crook took two wickets for 33 runs, de Clifford none for 5, Swain none for 5, Mallard six for 47, Stiver one for 22. Second Innings. Stokes, not out, .] Gordon, not out 1 Total for no wickets 2
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 5
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