FINE BOWLING SIDE
A FTER getting rid of Canterbury yesterday for a reasonable first innings total, Auckland
slumped badly late yesterday afternoon, and this morning the concluding stage of the innings was perilously close to a rout. The Canterbury, bowling throughout was most impressive, and in Merritt, Read and Newman,
J. Newman Canterbury has probably the strongest battery of bowlers in this season’s Shield series. Read was deadly this morning, and Merritt was always dangerous, while Newman, although he secured only one wicket at long odds yesterday, is a better bowler than his figures indicated.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 11
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95FINE BOWLING SIDE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 11
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