HARDSTAFF’S FIGHTING INNINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 8

HARDSTAFF’S FIGHTING INNINGS

SIR JULIEN CAHN’S TE4M i MATCH WITH CANTERBURY SLOWER SCORING ON SECOND DAY { Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 25. The second day's play in the match between Canterbury and Sir Julien Cahn's team was not as good to watch le on the first day, the scoring being much slower. Canterbury's innings ended at 464 and at stumps the visitors had lost five wickets for 262 runs. A feature of the day’s play was the solid fighting innings by Hardstaff, who made 132 not out. Going in when two wickets were down for 26, he played correct cricket, but with a bit more enterprise he could have made many more. The batting of Sir Julien Cahn's team on the whole was disappointing, few players showing any enterprise against bowling which, with the exception of Roberts, was steadyrat her than dangerous. Hardstaff and Dyson added 86 for the third wicket and Hardstaff and Heane put ■ on 103 in an unbroken sixth-wicket stand. The wicket was again good and the ou field fast, the match being watched oy the best crowd since the visit of the S« uth Africans six years ago. Stores are as follow: 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 J. B. Cromb, b Walsh 66 W. A. Hadlee, b \Valsh 15 W. McD. Anderson, c Jackson, b Walsh 20 R. C. Shand, c Maxwell, b Watts 35 F. W. Bellamy, b Smith 34 R. C. Webb, lbw, b Smith 46 H. Davis, c Watts, b Walsh 7 E. Mulcock. not out 2 Extras _ 15 | Total 464 Bowling Analysis

i 219; three for 232; four for 243; five . for 312; six for 321; seven for 352; ! eight for 381: nine for 427; ten for 1462; eleven for 464. Sir Julien Cahn’s Team First Innings I C. S. Dempster, b Rober ts 14 iA. H. Dyson, c Mulcock, b Cromb 38 I H. Mudge, b Roberts 0 J. Hardstaff. not out ]32 I N. Oldfield, c Roberts, b Davis 14 iV. E. Jackson, c Kerr, b Davis . 14 G. F. H Beane, not out 43 Extras 7 ■ . . Total for five wickets 262 Bowling Analysis

| 26; three for 108: four for J 35' five , for 159 Enterprise by 15 ebb . It dici not take long to dismiss the i remaining Canterbury batsmen, but jthe extra 49 runs that were added '•■.ere made Quickly. This was due to enterprising play by Webb, who scored 36 of them. He showed his quality as a batsman by powerful strokes all round the wicket. His score, which included a six and four fours, was the biggest he had made in representative games. Bellamy added only five to his overnight score, and he had the distinction nf being the only one clean bowled. Davis tried to hit. hard without much success, and Mulcock was not. Smith and Walsh \\ere the only bow lers used. Smith, who looked most impressive on the first dr;». took two of the wickets for 20 runs and Walsh’s one cost 24 runs. They both kept 3 good length and needed watching Sir Julien Cahn’s Team Bat Disappointingly The batting of Sir Julien Cahn's I men can best bp described as disap[pointing. The side was certainly fac;ed with a formidable total and got irway to a bad start, and it was to b? [expected that the batsmen would set out tc retrieve the position Few-, however, expected them to close up quite so much, and in the favourable batting conditions they p ould have been more enterprising without taking unnecessary risks. That there is tun-making ability in the team there is no doubt, for, with exception of perhaps Mudge, who failed to get gong. all revealed a good range of trokes. Hardstaff undoubtedly saved the .«ide from collapsing, but he did not Jake as many runs from the bowling las he could have done without much I effort. He drove powerfully at times, • but was mostly content to place the ball to gaps In the field, some pretty I late and square cuts being seen. He I has 59 singles in his score, also seven [fours, and one hard chance does not I detract from the value of his innings. | Perhaps most interest was taken in [the display of C. S. Dempster, the [former New Zealand representative. 'Although he did not take many runs, i enough was seen to indicate that he has justified the high opinions formed of him in England. Cover drives and square cuts travelled fast off his bat. and it was, from the spectators’ point of view, perhaps unfortunate that he received such a good ball so early. Slow Scoring By Dyson Credit for the slowest scoring of the day must go to Dyson, who plays for Glamorgan. Known to be a patient batsman, he certainly revealed thU

O. M. R. W. Watts 18 2 81 2 Heane 4 0 17 I j Jackson 11 35 (1 Walsh 29 1 J 44 4 Smith 30 3 92 Mudge 13 1 80 2 Fall of wickets: One for 62; two for

O. M. R. W. Roberts 22 3 67 Mulcock ... . ... 25 4 79 0 Cromb 17 2 .39 1 Donnelly 12 1 28 0 Davis . .. 10 0 42 Fall of wickets: Ono for 22; two for