Many and varied are the cricket stories that come to hand from time to time, hut a local resident states that he can vouch for this one. Recently, he stated, he visited the centra;] King Country and went to view a hackblocks game of cricket. The ground had anything but a billiard table surface, while no great distance from the pitch—and certainly not the regulation boundary —ran a river. Occasionally one of the batsmen of the “bush-whacking” type, would give the hall such a mighty swipe that it would land in the water and float down-stream. Eventually lhe opposing side got wise to the little game, and stationed a man, stripped to the waist on the hank, ready to plunge into the rushing waters when required, and retrieve the leather!
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2833, 13 January 1925, Page 1
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