SPARKLING PLAY IN PLUNKET SHIELD

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5300, 13 January 1947, Page 6

SPARKLING PLAY IN PLUNKET SHIELD

^ i Auckland Wins By Six , Wickets AUC^KLAND, last night With Auckland's first four bats- i men out for 76 runs, and the side j showing a deficiency of 160, Canterbury had a fine winning chance in the Plunket Shield match at Eden Park yesterday, but a fifth wicket partnership !by the two young players, B. Sutcliffe and D. D. Taylor, changed the face of the situation and they put on the necessary runs in 135 minutes, Auckland winning hy six wickets. Sutcliflfe was then 62 and Taylor who had attacked the bowling, 98. After the match had been won, the over was continued to allow Taylor to score a century, and his unofficial tally was 101, not out. Scores : — • CANTERURRY— First Innings 299 Second Innings I. B. Cromb c Scott b Snedden 0 J. H. Parks c Wiles b Snedden 6 T. B Burtt c Scott b Snedden 2 W. McD. Anderson h Snedden . . 18 R. H. Scott c Wallace b Burke 6 W. Pollitt c Taylor b Snedden.. 0 R. C. Shand c Scott b Sutcliffe 7 F. B. Smith c Cowie b Sutcliffe 106 A. Burgess c Kent b Burke .... 32 A. E. L. Britton c Wiles b Snedden 8 C. Garston not out 8 Extras 9 Total 194 Bowling: C. A. Snedden 59 runs for 6 wickets; B. Sutcliffe 25 for 2; O. Burke 54 for 2; J Cowie 27 for none; A. V. Wiles 20 for none. AUCKLAND — (First Innings 258 / Secondi Innings "P. E. Whitelaw run out, 28 G. Burgess b Parks 23 V. J. Scott b Parks 14 W. M. Wallace c Cromb b Scott 2 B. Sutcliffe not out, 62 D. D. Taylor not out 98 Extras 10 Total for four wickets . . 237 Bowling: Parks 63 for 2; Scott 52 for 1; Burtt 43 for none; Carston 33 for none; Cromb 18 for none; Anderson 20 for none.