CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1933, Page 2

CRICKET

HAT TRICK RECORD

A keen cricket follower writes to the Auckland “Star” suggesting a sin of omission in Tom Reese’s history of cricket in New Zealand in that Sid Orchard is given credit for the only “hat trick” in Plunket 'Shield cricket, whereas no mention >s made of “Kay” (Miff’s “hat trick” for Auckland against Wellington at the Domain in January. 1913, fn Wellington’s second innings. 0 iff took three wickets in his first over, getting Blamires, Phillips and Beechey, none of whom scored.

The correspondent’s recollection is at fault. A look at Hie I’eport.s of tne match ehows fthat in Wellington’s second innings the batting order was altered 'and Blacklock went in first with Phillips. While the latter was bowled with the sixth ball of Oliff’s first over, it was not hill the third of his next that he got Beechey, and the following over before he dismissed 'Brice. He got three wickets in three overs for one run, but no two of them with consecutive balls. In the next three ovens he got Wilson and Blamires, and in the innings he took six wickets for eleven run s . The Last of his victims was Clavrie Grimmett, later the great slow bowler o.f the Australian Eleven.

In this innings the Wellington bowlers, Grimmett (28), Robinson (45) and. Saunders (21 not out), were, chiefly responsible for saving Wellington from an innings defeat. This was 0.0, Dncre’s first representative match, and he made a “duck” in the first innings and '23 not out the second. Auckland won by nine wickets.

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Not one member of the team while in Australia complained of having, been jeered at at a theatre, nox did the players prefer to stay in their hotel in the evening

The charge that refuse was thrown at English fieldsmen near the boundary is also greatly exaggerated. The Sydney hill crowd was so congested that they took pickets from the fence to aid their view. They flung large quantities of 'orange peel and tho wrappings of pies and lunches just inside the fence. As a matter of fact in the press there was nowhere else' to put these things unless they flung them o.n th e shoulders of their nearest neighbour.

GOOD HUMOURED BY-PLAY.

Wyatt, ih the outfield, on occasions, playfully flung pieces Of orange peel back over the fence to avoid slipping on them. Of course, this led youths to return the fire with rolled paper. Although it was a little offensive, it was quite good-humoured, and 'in no way malicious. Something similar occurred iin Melbourne, but the Nawia’i. of. pa taudi whose geniality was proverbial, remarked that he enjoyed the jokes of the outer crowd when fielding on the fence.

In Brisbane the barricking of Lar- j wood came from probably 5 per cent J of a 35,000 crowd. In Adelaide, when Oldfield was injured, those taking part j in the angriest demonstration of all | probably totalled 50 per cent of the ' crowd. Larwood was counted out fifteen times and hooted violently. But the of 40.000 shouting in unison a profane word of two syllables is pure fiction. Profane epithets were hurled at Larwood by isolated barrackers in ■Sydi ey, Adelaide and Brisbane. Usually they came from one loud mouthed enthusiast the worse for drink. The most regrettable piece of barracking was when a section of about 5 per cent of the Sydney crowd exulted when Jardine was struck in the side by a fast ball.

DISUNION DID EXIST

Stories of dissension in the team were not manufactured. Disunion existed in Melbourne during the second Test match and in Bendigo. Larwood objected to being twelfth man in Bendigo. He struck his name off the list posted in the hotel by Jardine for the Press. Conferences were held to compose matters, and the compromise was that the English team, for the first time in vsixty years, entered the field, against a provincial side playing twelve men against B'endigo’s thirteen. Larwood was no" longer twelfth man but was brought into the team. There was much bickering over team selections and alleged favouritism, and also disputes about the batting order. In Adeliade Jardine’s iron discipline at the hotel at Glcnelg, where the team stayed during the third Test, irked some members of the team. One man who was not selected for' the Test, desired to fulfil a social engagement. Jardine insisted that he stay in the hotel. Hr explained flint, as be was imt picked in the Test, he should be entitled to attend to a social engageme.'.T. The”c were warm words, and the member of the team core-rued pushed passed the captain in the door-

wav and went out. At no lime however, were the contents of a beer glass hi.n.g at -1 •'!•(!;>(.,• inviiibi i- ,■ f the team as had been slated.