THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1988.
Fight For Runners-Up
Runners-Up Berth
Virtual Decider At Cox's Road This
Afternoon
"REVIEWER'S"
should they do so, there will be an-
at
SPORTS COMMENTARY
STRICTLY on results to date, I suppose that Kow-other team quaking with fear
the relegation bogey!
Second Division
loon Cricket Club should be able to overcome Craigengower to-day in view of the fact that the game is to be played at Cox's Road, but I am ad-
The promotion problem in the Two More Records For mittedly forecasting on a hunch when I say I think second League is most interesting the visitors will win.
and I foresee a great struggle in THE TWO TEAMS HAVE SIMILAR RECORDS EXCEPT their final match on August G be- THAT THE KOWLOONITES HAVE COLLECTED TWO POINTS tween Kowloon Bowling Green Club MORE THAN THE VALLEY TEAM BY REASON OF HAVING and Club de Recreio. PLAYED A GAME MORE.
To-day's contest, therefore, be-i comes virtually a fight for the runners-up position as I think both teams will win their re- The Valley maining matches.
team have to play the Indians twice, whilst the Mainland team plays the Police, away, in their last encounter.
Club de Recreio will make Championship theirs if they the Civil Servants as they are pected to do. Although the match is at the Valley I think the Portu- guese will be able to bring away the points with fully a dozen shots spare, thereby making the team's position more
than it now is.
RE
Bradman?
EADING an article on the life of Don Bradman a few weeks ago, written by himself, I was struck by The League is not likely to change a statement he made to the effect that
"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR TO-DAY
(-)
(70)
(-)
on only one occasion has he deliberate- ly set out to break a record and that was the highest score in first-class cricket which he made in 1929-30. Batting for New South Wales against Queensland at Sydney he made 452 not out to better W. H. Ponaford's score of 437 made in 1927-28 at Mel- bourne.
the
beat
ex-
· Kowloon Cricket Club
Civil Service C.C..
.*Indian Recreation Club
Police Recreation Club
FIRST
.(48)
DIVISION
Craigengower_C.C.
(56)
(36)
Club de Recreio
Kowloon B.G.C..
Kowloon Dock R.C.
(69)
.(85).
Viewing the long list of records. his that he has chalked up against name, one cannot but help wondering what this machine-like personality would achieve if he really set mind to it.
his
SECOND DIVISION
Craigengower C.C.
*Civil Service C.C.
Kowloon B.G.C.
(61)
Football Club "B"
(55)
to home precarious
Police Recreation Club
+Football Club “A”·
.(35)
Club de Recreio
(79)
Taikoo Recreation C.
THIRD
DIVISION
Kowloon Football Club
Craigengower C.C. Kowloon Tong G.C.A.
Club de Recreio
(62)
*Kowloon Cricket C.
.(56)
:(58),
R.H.K. Yacht Club.
. (61)
.(40)
H.K. Electric R.C.
(59)
(67)
Football Club “B”.
(63)
Should the unexpected happen would however, the Civil Servants
be level with Kowloon Dock who are not expected to beat Police at the Valley, though you can never tell! The latter team are not yet quite clear of the danger zone and that is realised is indicated by their renew- ed efforts to find a winning com- bination. No team has made more changes than they have in
the course of the season.
* Denotes promoted team. + Denotes relegated team.
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Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year. League and have no worries. They, before then as I expect both these Kowloon Bowling Green Club are should be able to overcome the teams to win their games to-day, whilst Craigengower should be able firmly planted midway in the Indians, even at Sookunpoo, and to pull off a victory to keep promo
tion for them well within the bounds of possibility. Their remaining two encounters are against Football Club "A" and they should be able to win at least one.
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The latter team are playing home so I favour them to have the better of their game with Taikoo, but there should not be a great deal
In the course of the present tour of England, he has helped himself to one record-1,000 runs in May for the second time-never before accom plished in first-class cricket, and, de- spite his avowal that he never goes. after records, I have a very strong feeling that he now has his eye on two, both set. by giants of the game, one of which has stood since 1906.
These are:
Highest aggregate in a season: Tom Hayward (8618) in 1906:
Greatest number of centuries in season; J. B. Hobbs (16) in 1925
At the present rate of progress there appears to be nothing that can stop him from topping 16 centuriea His latest double-century against Somerset makes h his total for the seas son 18, and it seems almost impos sible that in some dozen matches re- maining, he will not make the four more necessary.
+
On the same basis, unless he is
I cannot see how he can fail to break kept out of cricket for any reason, Tom Hayward's record.
Including his double-century against Somerset, he has scored 2845 runs so he only requires 1178 to equal the record.
His figures to date are!
not.
Inns. out Aggreg. H.S. Avger 24 ** 5% 2345 278 123,42
From the above it will be seen that. he averages almost 100 for every in will bat twice in many of the remaining nings. Although it is unlikely that he matches, it must be remembered that
in it at the finish as the visitors there is still the played-to-a-finish Test
at the Oval in which he is quite cape: are full of confidence just now.
able of putting together a 800 as he does not have to hurry over it.
Third Division
Kowloon Football Club must as suredly beat their cricketing friends, unless a reaction sets in after their promotion race has finished, which is not very likely, whilst Club de Recreio, with the Football Club was their visitors,
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While all the foregoing may be speculative, I am quite prepared to take evens that unless something very phenomenal happens, Bradman takes these two records home with him.
World's Finest Bat
Acknowledged one of the greatest batsman the world has ever known,
should be the next be able Bradman completed 10 years of first
tó
Kowloon Tong should collect a couple of points at the ext pense of the Electricians but will need to play hard for them, while Craigengower will create a surprise if they do not secure the better of the lowly-placed Yacht Club,
(Continued from Next Col.) with the exception of Bradman, not one of them more than twice: - Brad- man, however, has scored 1,000 runs in every season he has played except his first, 1.0., on eight "separate and consecutive occasions.
As Bradman has not played first class cricket outside England and Australia, a summary of his completa
class record, before the com-" mencement of the present tour, was:
class cricket fast year. During that period many of his, batting perform-. ances have been unprecedented. He has broken one record after another he has far surpassed the performan and already, in actual achievement, ces of any other bataman. There is an easy going tendency to discount the significance of cricket records and averages and in some circumstances, they may be misleading. But in the long ran, the records may lead ir resistibly to certain conclusions, and in Bradman's case, they prove beyond
doubt that he is one of the verumb*
greatest batsmen of all time, pos- sessing the faculty of doing his best on the most important occasions, as witness his performancer in the sec ond innings of the first and second Test matches of the present series.
Owing to the limited quantity of first class cricket, the feat of scoring. 1,000 rung in an Australian season is rarely performed. Very fon llan cricketers have done i Continked at foot of.