CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 22 November 1927, Page 3

CRICKET

JUSTIFYING THE TOUR NEW ZEALAND WINS BY AN INNINGS, WICKET IN FAVOUR OF BOWLERS. Christchurch, Nov. 21. The New Zealand touring team, in the last match before disbanding, beat the rest of New Zealand to-day by an innings and 46 runs. The wicket, which had stood the heavy rain on Saturday, was thoroughly soaked by more rain early this morn, ing. The wicket was a bowler’s paradise. and the outfield • slow and spongy. Under these conditions the fielding side had the batsmen at their mercy. Very few of the batsmen made any sort of a stand, and as the New Zealand side were clearly trying to get the Rest out quickly and end the match in time for members to leave to-night, the spectators saw some excellent cricket. Scores:— NEW ZEALAND First Innings. C. S. Dempster, b Read 77 C. J. Oliver, b Badcock 3 J. E. Mills, c Foley b Newman 0 T. C. Lowry, b McEwin 78 R, C. Blunt, run out 48 M. L. Page, b Read 10 C. F. W. Alcott, c and b Massey 36 H. M. McGirr, b Newman 12 K. C. James, st. Boon b Newman 16 W. Merritt, not out 1 Extras 26 Total 330 Bowling.—Badcock one for 35, Newman four for 72. McEwen one for 44, Read two for 81, Massey one for 17. Cunningham none for 42, Nixon none for 4, THE REST. First Innings 141 Second Innings. J. Newman, l.b.w. b Merritt ... 65 J. Langridge. c Lowry b Alcott 4 H. D. Gillespie, c Merrit b Lowry 4 D. C. Nixon, b Alcott 1 F. T. Badcock, c Page b Merritt 5 H. B. Massey, )> Alcott 6 M. K. Boon, b Bernau 2 H. Foley, not out 35 J. McEwen, st. James b Merritt 0 R. J. Read, c Mills z Merritt .. 0 W. Cunningham, b Lowry 17 Extras 7 Total 146 Bowling.—McGirr none for 8, Bernau one for 18. Alcott three for 14, Page none for 21, Merritt four for 44, Blunt none for 17. Lowry two for 3, Dempster none for 14. HAWKE CUP TEAM. The Hawke’s Bay team to play Wairoa in the Hawke Cup. preliminary match this week-end has been selected as follows:— E. Elliott (Tech. O.B.), Mitchell (Heretaunga), O’Brien (Technical O.B.), Owen (H. 5.0.8. Pirie (Technical O.B.), Reaney (High School), Shephard (Technical O.B.), Temperton (United), Von Sturmer (H. 5.0.8. White (Heretaunga), Worker (H. 5.0.8. captain. Reserve: Evans (Technical O.B.).