HAWKE CUP CRICKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 13

HAWKE CUP CRICKET

TARANAKI BATTING S. LAY SCORES CENTURY Press Association WANGANUI, To-day. The Hawke Cup elimination cricket match between Wanganui and Taranaki was continued on Saturday in fine weather. The wicket was still good wheji Wanganui’s not-out men, Gieson (96) and Sewell (1) resumed. The homo team’s total for the loss of five wickets was 192 at the close of the first day’s play. The second ball of the first over saw Gicsen dismissed, caught by Quickfall, in the slips. The Wanganui batsmen collared the bowling, the tail adding 177 runs before the end came. The principal contributors were Sewell 73, Hutchinson 35, Darby 26 and London 19. For Taranaki Petty took four wickets for 95 runs, Quickfall three for 95, Lay one for 40, and Nasmith two for 77. Taranaki, with a first -innings score of 190. commenced the second innings with Wilson and Xasmith. The first wicket fell when the total was 41, Xasmith golihg out leg before to Treadwell, with 21 to his credit. S. Lay joined Wilson and the pair had added nearly 200 runs when stumps were drawn for the day. Lay reached the century shortly before time, being 105, not out. Wilson was 91. The match will be resumed to-day, although heavy rain has promised to place a different complexion on Taranaki’s chance.