WAIROA CRICKET
HOPPER SHIELD GAMES NOMADS BEAT RETAILERS NARROW WIN FOR ROVERS (Sj.i-fiiii lo lhe Ih riilrt.) WAIROA. this day. Some bright cricket was witnessed in the matches played in the Wairoa Cricket Association's Hopper Shield competition on Saturday afternoon, two-point wins being secured by Rovers .and Nomads. ROVERS V. HIGH SCHOOL Rovers made 20-1 against High School, Nightingale (>G, Martin 41, and liowe 53, being the principal scorers, while McKenzie 14 and Croker 10 also made double figures. McLean took two wickets for 75 runs, Shad bolt four for 53, and Pilkington two for -10.
The school side ran up 112, of which Shadbolt, sen., made 38. Shadbolt, jun., 27. and Sutherland 21, McLean just getting into double figures. Martin took five wickets for It) runs, Bell one for 2, Croker two for 29, and McKenzie one for 29.
Rovers won on the first innings, the last school wicket falling five minutes before time. RETAILERS V. NOMADS Nomads batted first, and made 201. three batsmen having retired aftermaking good scores. Mann 51. retired, Millar 41, A. Unwin 34. M. Unwin 12, retired, and Pilkington 14, retired. were the principal batsmen. New lands took three wickets for 2G runs. Hunt Iwo for (10. ITalladay one for 10, and Good Winter one for 25.
Only two Retailers’ batsmen, Finch, 12, and ITalladay, 18, achieved double figures, and the innings closed for (18. M. Unwin took three wickets, Millar three and Pilkington and Hudson two each, till fairly cheaply.
In their second innings, following on. Retailers opened much more promisingly, and Halladay made 59 not out, six wickets being down for 92 when the game ended. Nomads won on the first innings.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19391113.2.29
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 5
Word Count
280WAIROA CRICKET Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. 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 the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in