THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 26, 1938.
THESE OPENING BATSMAN ENIGMAS
RECREIO AND K.C.C. WOULD BENEFIT BY some resHUFFLING
INDIANS' BATTING
IMPROVEMENT
CRAIGENGOWER TROUNCE NAVY
men.
(By "ADREM")
A. M. RODRIGUES
liant but erratic merchants, like
Be that as it may. Against Givil Service, K.CC, who batted first, were at one time definitely behind the clock · When Anderson was dismissed for 42, it was almost 8.30 and the 100 was no where near reached. O'Bryen, however, hit out merrily and had a six and seven boundaries in an extremely useful innings of 68 not out and a de- claration was made at 157 for 8.
WORKMANLIKE MANNER
Civil Service set about their task in workmanlike manner, Col- ledge displaying fine judgment in both attack and defence for 39, and Griffiths and McLellan making use- ful twenties, but Burnett, going on THE cold, bleak weather of last Saturday evident-
them and started å rot which soon ly had an adverse effect on Senior League bats-matches and then allow their bril-second change, dismissed both of made it evident that a draw was In any event, all matches reached a definite Soares and Eddie Gosano, try their
all that could be hoped for. Not hand at knocking tired bowling until the last over had been called conclusion for the first time this season.
around.
was the last man dismissed, amid Whilst on the subject of opening great excitement, to leave KC.C., bats, the relegation of Teddy Fin-worthy winners.
the Without Whitmarsh's steadying cher from No. 1 to No. 5 in K. C. C. batting order strikes me influence with the bat, Navy proved as being a tactical error. Admit- no match for the keen Craigen- tedly. Teddy has not being playing gower side and were well and truly with any great regularity recently beaten by 9 wickets. "Tinker" Lee and has no
score higher than 18 to his credit in the League.
MOST CONSISTENT OPENING BAT
THERE WERE NO BIG SURPRISES, ALTHOUGH I MUST CONFESS THAT THE COMPLETE ECLIPSE OF THE NAVY BY CRAIGENGOWER, EVEN ALLOWING FOR THE ABSENCE OF WHITMARSH, WAS SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTED.
Recreio did very well against Club, who have been far from convincing of late, and only lost by 41 runs. The Portuguese team, in dismissing the entire Club side, are the first side this season to do so.
had
Club would have been in а sorry plight on Saturday not "Peanut" Marshall compiled a singularly useful 75 against some steady bowling by "Spotty" Pereira. In partnership with Alec Pearce, Marshall added 68 runs for the third wicket and in all, found the boundary on eight occasions.
Pereira bowled very well indeed, conceding only. 46. runs in 15.4 overs, while capturing four wickets. He was well supported by A. Prata, who went on late and took
4 for 25.
M.
It was exceedingly unfortunate for Recreio, in view of the fine form he has shown with the ball
Gosano of late, that Eddie
was field
I also notice that he has not opened, the batting on one occasion. He has been an opening batsman--- did their best, but 101 was all that the most consistent in the Colony was realised.
as far back as I can remember. I fail to reconcile the policy of Those Cricketers who HAVE OC- the King's Park club in putting cupied that position with any re- Albert Rodrigues in as far down gularity, will appreciate the difficul- the order as of late, with his curty in becoming accustomed to bat- rent form. While not being parting lower down the order, especi- ticularly spectacular with his scores, ally if it is necessary to wait for he has nevertheless collected his any great length of time for one's twenties with fair regularity when innings.
as
E. C. FINCHER
other members of his side have There has been a decided lack of failed. Before he went to Europe, consistency in K. C. C's batting to his consistency as an opening bat date and I think it distinctly un- was causing him to be freely men-wise of Anderson to so much tioned for the Interport team in risk losing the runs which I feel and Billimoria bowled far too well certain would come from Fincher's for the Senior Service and had not bat, were he to occupy his normal A. B. Herbert hit out lustily for 20 position.
I un- that capacity.
SHOULD OPEN.
In view of his experience
and
forced to retire from the after bowling only one over. derstand that the old leg injury which was worrying him just prior to, and during the last Interport game in Shanghai, has recurred, and I fear that he will be able to do little further to aid Recreio's eminently sound defence, my feeling attack for the remainder of the in the matter is that he should displace E. M. L. Soares as num- ber one in the order, and partner W. A. Reed. With these two to. take the edge off an attack and fur- Set to score 148 runs for a win, ther sound bats like P. M. N. da Recreio were tied into small knots Silva and A. M. Prata to follow, by John Pearce, whose vicious leg- there is no earthly reason why spinners were almost unplayable. they should not be given a Reed, Silva, Prata and Rodrigues decent start in practically all their
season.
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