CRICKET NOTES
The Taupo Cricket Club's match on Sunda'y, January 17, was between the Captain's and Vice-cap-tain's XIs. Beale led his Vice-cap-tain's XI into a strong position after a bad start, when with Clarke 84 runs were added for the third wicket. Ron Bjorngard batted well late in the innings and the total of 155 was made in good time, the innings taking just over H hours.
Th'anks to sustained hitting by Sutherland and Mclsaacs and good innings by some of the middle batsmen the Captain's XI gained a first innings lead of eight runs in slightly better time. C. Dixon finished off the innings by taking the last three wickets in four balls. The Vice-captain's XI improved still j further on the scoring rate when they smacked up 161 in an hour a quarter.
This innings included a very rapid scoring effort by Beale and Harding who rattled up 88 for the fifth wicket in just over half-an-hour. Left with 153 runs to obtain | in the last hour's play the Cap- 1 tain's team, which was under the control of Frank McKean in the absence of his father, found the task quite beyond it against some accurate bowling by Alan Clarke, who in only 6 overs took 6 wickets for 15 runs, The game was left drawn. Vice-captain's XI. First Innings 155.— R. Beale 36, A. Clarke 48, D. | Woodward 12, R. Bjorngard 30 not out, J. Smith4 for 43, F. McKean 2 for 14, D. Neame 1 for 48, R. Bredenbeck 1 for 23, E. Smith 1 for 21. Second Innings, 161 for 7 wickets declared.— A. Kennedy 21, A. Clarke 22, R. Beale 67, W. Harding 41, J. Smith 3 for 43, G. Sutherland 3 for j 66, F. McKean 1 for 22, D. Macken 1 for 6, R. Bredenbeck 0 for 15. Captain's XI. First Innings 163. — G. Sutherland 55, R. Mclsaacs 41, F. McKean 24, R. Bredenbeck 14. A. Kennedy 3 for 52, A Clarke 3 for 32, C. Dixon 3 for 2, D. Woodward 0 for 60, O. Delaney 0 for 8. Second Innings 70 for 9 wickets. — D. Macken 15, G. Sutherland 29 retired. ' A. Clarke 6 wickets for 15 runs, Kennedy 0 for 12, Dixon 0 for 14, Woodward 0 for 12, Bogue 0 for 3, Beale 0 for 1.
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Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 29 January 1954, Page 3
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388CRICKET NOTES Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 29 January 1954, Page 3
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