CRICKET.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 140, 13 November 1874, Page 2

CRICKET.

ELEVEN v. SIXTEEN COLTS.

Yesterday the annual match, sixteen Colts reruns the Interprovincial Eleven, or those who have played in an interprovincial match for Canterbury was played on the Hagley Park ground. As was expected, the colts had all their own way ; in fact, one or two old stagers remarked they thought they might take eleven colts who would be sufficiently strong to play the eleven, as it appeared on the ground. The interprovincial won the toss, and elected to go in, the only one attaining double figures being C. C. Corfe, who played a masterly innings of 34, the innings eventually closing for 68. The Colts were not long before appearing at the wickets, and Messrs Mclntyre and Beard, the two first bats, were not parted until 29 appeared on the telegraph. The next two or three wickets fell for 8 runs, when Neilson (a stranger to the Christchurch ground) appeared, and kept his wicket for an hour and a half for 27 runs, put together in true cricketing style, Messrs Dixon, AVilson, and Moore also reached double figures, and the innings eventually closed for 135 runs, or G 7 runs ahead. The Colts again took the field, and when time was called at half-past six, the eleven had made 54 runs for the loss of five wickets.