TROOPS AT CRICKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 251, 20 September 1940, Page 10

TROOPS AT CRICKET.

NEW ZEALANDERS WIN. MATCH AT HOME. (From the Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces In Great Britain.) ALDERSHOT, Aug. 26. New Zealandls defeat of Australia in tlie military cricket match on Saturday was as decisive as it had been unexpected. However, it must be admitted that, though accurate bowling and smart fielding both contributed to the win, it was principally due to weak Australian batting. The Second Contingent of the A.I.F. seeius hardly representative of the Commonwealth’s cricketing talent. There was one Sheffield Shield player in the side, Signalman M. Brame, the skipper, and one of the'opening batsmen, rvho made 33 before breaking his wicket in stepping back to Gillespie; and one Tasmanian representative. The others were mostly first-grade players, several of them from metropolitan districts but none the less they developed a long tail. The turf wicket had something to do with it. In their camps the Australians have been playing—so far as they have played at all, which is no more than our men have—on clay wickets of somewhat equal pace to those to which they have been accustomed at home. Pitches in the Aldershot Command, on the contrary, are more like those in New Zealand. The chances are that for the return match both sides will bo a little stronger than they were this time. Our selectors are not yet satisfied that they have discovered the full cricketing strength of the ecb el 0)1. Saturday’s game was arranged bv the New Zealand and Australian Y.M.C.A.’s, and tea was served from the New Zealand . Y.M.C.A. Lowry mobile van, with Mrs A. P. F. Chapman in charge. Mr Chapman himself (Cambridge, Kent and England) arrived shortly after the interval, and watched most of the Australian innings. Scores : NEW ZEALAND. C. Wareham (Wellington), run out 50 E. W. Tindill (Wellington), b Edgar 23 S. Betts (Taranaki), c —, b Lines 15 G. F. Briggs (Wellington), b Edgar 2 P. Monk (Otago), b Cox 4 T. Morten (Canterbury), lbw, b Edgar 6 Rev. E. Forsman (Poverty Bay), st- —, b Edgar G W. Copeland (Wellington), b Edgar :. ... 14 H. Reaney, st —, b Edgar 5 A. B. Gillespie (South Canterbury), not out G Extras ... 4 Total 135 Bowling analysis.—Edgar, 6 for 46; Cox, 1 for 25; Lines, 1 for 43. AUSTRALIA. T. M. Brame, hit wicket, b Gillespie 33 J. McNamara, 1> Barker 12 0. H. Cox, c Wareham, b Barker 0 E. H. Lines, c Morten, b Betts 1 It. Hackwortliy, c and I) Monk ... 3 V. R- Filleul, c Tindill, b Monk 0 S. Edgar, c sub, b Betts 4 F. O’Leary, b Gillespie 0 J. B. Moult, c Copeland, b Betts 3 J. McAfferey, c Barker, b Gillespie 3 N. J. Dalv, ndt out 5 Extras .' 5 Total 69 Bowling analysis.—Gillespie, 3 for 6; Barker, 2 for 12; Monk, 2 for 15; Betts, 3 for 27.