BRILLIANT INNINGS
KERR OUTSTANDING SIR JULIEN CAHN’S TEAM AT CHRISTCHURCH CANTERBURY’S GOOD SCORE [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 24.
A brilliant innings by J. L. Kerr, the Canterbury captain, was the outstanding performance in the first day's play in the cricket match between Sir Julien Cahn's touring team and Canterbury, which was commenced at Lancaster Park to-day. His display was reminiscent of the brilliant form he displayed a few years ago, which made him one of the outstanding batsmen in the Dominion. At the end of the day's play, Canterbury had made 415 for the loss of eight wickets, and if the high scoring continues it will be very doubtful it the match can be finished in three days. Others who batted well were R. E. J. Menzies and I. B. Cromb. On the easy wicket, none of the Canterbury batsmen found the bowling really difficult, and only one so far has not reached double figures. The wicket was made for batsmen, and the bowlers had a hard job keeping the runs down.
The weather was brilliantly fine, with a light breeze from thA northeast, and there was a good crowd present considering that it was an off day. The gate takings were £l2O. The scores were:— Canterbury First Innings J. L. Kerr, lbw, b Walsh 124 M. P. Donnelly, c Dempster, b
Smith 20 R. E. J. Menzies, lbw, b Mudge 77 A. W. Roberts, lbw, b Mudge 3 I. B. Cromb, b Walsh 66 W. A. Hadlee,~b Watts ... 15 W. McD. Anderson, c Jackson, u
Walsh 20 R. C. Shand, c Maxwell, b Watts 35 F. W. Bellamy, not out 29 R. C. Webb, not out 14 Extras 12
OTAGO ELEVEN
TO PLAY TOURING TEAM [ Per Press Association. I DUNEDIN, Feb. 24. The following team has been selected to represent Otago against Sir Julien Cahn’s eleven on March 3, 4, and 6:—D. A. R. Moloney (captain), S. Elmes, K. E. M. Uttley, G. .J. Robertson, R. Silver, G. H. Mills, A. R. Knight, V. J. Leader, H. Cameron, J. Nimmo, and L. Groves, R. Hunt will be twellth man.
Total for eight wickets 415 Bowling Analysis 0. M. R. w. E. A. Watts .. . 18 2 81 2 G. F. H. Heane .. 4 0 17 0 V. E. Jackson . 11 2 35 0 J. E. Walsh . 25 1 112 3 T. P. B. Smith .... 26 3 78 1 H. Mudge . 13 1 80 2 Fall of wickets.—One for 62, two for 219, three for 232, four for 243, five for 312, six for 321, seven for 352, eight for 381,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19390225.2.58
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
431BRILLIANT INNINGS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in