Novel Cricket Incident.
A fieldsman displayed tlie accuracy of a champion billiards player when a long throw-ill from the boundary landed the ball on the full in the pocket of a running batsman during a junior cricket match between Canterbury and Otago. Marshall, a Canterbury representative, hit tlie ball to the ' boundary, where it was stopped by Mclvor, of the Otago, team. McTvor threw the ball hard, but it went wide of the wicket, so wide, indeed, that it- landed directly in the pocket- of Marshall, who was returning on his second run. When Marshall reached the crease the search for the hall was begun, at first ;n tlie batsman’s pads. Then it was found in bis trousers pocket, where ri.t had: lodged without his realising- that it was still with him.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 170, 17 April 1939, Page 1
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132Novel Cricket Incident. Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 170, 17 April 1939, Page 1
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