FAULTY RISK

NZ Truth, Issue 1263, 13 February 1930, Page 16

FAULTY RISK

Declaration Nearly Cost Game (From "N.Z. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.) IN cricket it never pays to treat the other side too cheaply. This was illustrated to the Dunedin team on Saturday afternoon when, with a lot of luck and a narrow margin of 5 runs, they defeated Christian Brothers. With 4 wickets down for 237 on the previous week-end's play, Dunedin, apparently after an innings victory, declared. But skipper Strang under-estim-ated the worth of the Bros. Events showed that he was almost too hasty m his decision to declare on the fruits of the first afternoon's play. ; Happily for Dunedin the tail-end of the young opposition was not equal to the light, but important task of. adding 21* runs with 3 wickets In hand, and Dunedin scraped m with a victory which brought them up from the wrong end of the competition. With the big problem of facing Grange's 337 (innings declared for 7 wickets). Old Boys only got faithful returns from Giles and Maloney. • / Giles was m great form, and gave a fine display of powerful batting for 76. Maloney (30), batted strongly. The innings closed for 151. Arthur Galland, whom, it might be mentioned, the selectors dropped out of the recent Wellington-Otago game — the first time the veteran has been left out for a number of years — netted 4 wickets for 8 runs. His bag included Giles, Harraway and Cherry! uiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiniiiiiiuiiiuii^