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the week-end ́ ́were over- shadowed by the bowling of C.. Pope, of Police Recreation Club. and the batting of George Souza, of Craigengower Cricket Club.
Volunteer camps apparently did not affect cubs unduly and Kowloon Cricket Club was the only senior civilian club that was not engaged, although it was noti- ceable that Navy were also free.
In contrast to the previous week, scoring, generally, was on the low side, it being left to a school side --Diocesan Boys' School-to make the highest total, and very res- pectable it was.
To this team must be awarded the credit also for the finest victory of the day. Playing aga.nst a junior club side, Kowloon Cricket Club,* which was not by any means a greatly depleted one, the schoolboys knocked up a total of 194 for 5 dec. and then skittled out the opposi- tion for a meagre 51.
Actually only J. Fisher and C. B. R. Sargent failed with the bat for the winners. Francis Lay more than lived up to his reputation of being
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Missed the last two matches and will not be playing again for another fort night.
stature and strength to his wrists. The limited K.C.C. attack had a gruelling time and only Baxter's medium-paced off-breaks were at all successful.
wicket for the Club, did so in or- I am told that Adams who kept dinary driving gauntlets. I'm afraid that our hard wickets are going to
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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1988
FORM BY DIOCESAN SCHOOL
FAIR SHARE OF THRILLS
Istruck one of those patches which Hong Kong Cricket Club are cer-abound, failed to come up an inch tainly having their -fair share of and trickled in slowly to disturb thrills. Against the Army at Soo- the bails.
kunpoo, week before last, they Pleasing feature of Club Junior's secured victory when the last ball cricket this season has been the all- of the match went for a bye.
round-form of C. W. E. Bishop. He On Saturday against I.R.C., any-was once again the outstanding thing might have happened in the member of the team on Saturday last 10 minutes. As it was, they against University.
were 7 runs in arrears, with the last Club batsmen did not fare at all two in (one man short) when well against the bowling of Ng, stumps were drawn,
I.R.C. had first use of the wicket and it was evident that they were none too happy against the varied Club attack which included Long- field, Owen Hughes, Pearce, Bow- ker, Beck and Ilsley,
Singh Gill and Gegg and they could Of these Bishop only total 79 runs. made 21, while young Parsons; · a former Central British Schoolboy was next highest scorer with 19.
Ng's analysis was really good and bears reproduction:
A. H. Madar made highest score,
0. M. R. his 27 being a patient and con-
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4 13 scientious effort. So slow were I.R.C. that with the score at 118 and 9
University should have secured wickets down, they were forced to the necessary runs easily as they have quite a number of fair bats- declare at about 4.20.
he
the best schoolboy bat in the Co-give him extremely sore hands if he attractive innings of 39 and Long-failed miserably, C. H. Teoh and Apart from Kilbee, who played an men, on paper. However, they all lony and I am told that his 40, while does not quickly accustom himself field, Club batting was not impres- Matthews alone making :: double- not being without blemish, was a to the better-protected if unwieldy give although special mention must figures. The latter is also a school classic example of batsmanship. He wicket-keeping gauntlets as sup- be made of Ilsley's innings of 16 batsman of last season when pletely dominated the scoring while plied by the Club.
not out, and Bowker's stubborn turned out for D.B.S. he was there, being responsible for
knock, which two efforts were res- no fewer than 40 out of the first 48
ponsible for Club forcing a draw. runs scored.
ADVANTAGE NOT FORCED
HOME
hit all round the wicket and com-
His best scoring shots were two sixes and five fours and he was eventually caught off Guay after hitting that bowler for 4, 6, and 4 off successive balls.
The School's innings was one long tale of dropped catches and K.C.C. will have to buck their ideas up considerably in this department if they hope to make any sort of a showing this season.
Against the bowling of Crary and Sargent, who were unchanged, K.C.C. could only total a miserable. Crary, who made 67 not out, ap-51, Gray being the only doublę peared to be limited with his scor-figure scorer.
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TACTICS!
ing shots and his innings was,-of necessity, a trifle slow. Neverthe- less he showed a sound defence and he would be well advised to main- tain his present tactics-concen trate on defence and let the runs come. Greater rapidity in scoring will come as he adds inches to his
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At Sookunpoo, Recreio after do- ing comparatively well by keeping Army scoring down to 129, were un-
BY ADREM
Sargent always seems to give of his best when playing for the school whose cricket he has done so much to develop and it is fit- ting that in one of his last ap-able to cope with the situation and pearances on the local cricket- field for some time, he should have done so well
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were all out for 69.
NOT. TOO. SKILFULI. An interesting. if..not too, skilful match, was that between Craigen- gower and a Press. XI at the Valley. The Press had quite a fair bowl- ing side which included “Tinker" Lee, M. R. Abbas, A. M. Omar and Ellis and if they had held all the chances that. George Souza gave, the chances are they would have won!
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Souza, I am told, was dropped no fewer than four times, two of them at least, sitters, but he was scoring fast and going for everything and under the circumstances, his 100 was thoroughly deserved.
The complete domination of Souża over Craigengower's batting is in- dicated by the fact that the next highest score was 11.
Army batting was far from im- pressive and an even smaller total would have resulted had it not been for Sgt. Baker and Lieut. Clift. The Press started off as if they E. L. Gosano and Prata, who went on | had every intention of winning. to bowl rather late, did all the dam- After Talip and Abbas had been age, taking 5 for 29 and 3 for 23 dismissed for ducks, Omar and respectively..
"Tinker" Lee got into the twenties. The former hit hard and furiously, while the latter played correctly..
None of Recreio's acknowledged bats came off and highest scorer was wicket-keeper Beltrao who made
Later E. R. Ellis hit everything what must be his highest score in overpitched very hard indeed and A. Senior Cricket to date, namely 20. H. Esmail, despite the fact that he A heading in a contemporary played back to everything short of a says: "Pope Beats Indians." To that high full-toss, remained undefeated I would add, "Pope and Police Wic-with 16.
ket Beat Indians."
was
AN OLD-TIMER! I'm told that the wicket
Batting No. 11, Charlie Wong, dreadful and I foresee some nasty who many years ago was one of accidents at P.R.C. if the authori- the stalwarts of the now defunct ties do not do something about their ground.
C.R.C. team, gave a nice exhibition and it is evident that all he wants is a little practice.
FINE BOWLING FEAT These comments on the ground
Easily the most promising player are not meant as a deprecation of for the Press was E. R. Ellis. He Pope's performance on Saturday as, bowls slow left-handers with some I understand, he bowled very well skill, is a safe catch and it is ob indeed. His 9 for 6 in 6.5 overs has vious that he has done quite a bit only been bettered twice in recent of good batting.
years, to my recollection. The late Special mention for S. MacNider Frank Pereira's 10 wickets against who took four quick slip catches. University for. I.R.C., and Haymes' He told me that softball training is 10 wickets for 'Club juniors last the reason for his quick 'eye and
safe hands, K.C.C. might make
season.
The other Police bowler note of that! to take wicket was A. E. Carey, and am told that the ball with which he bowled D. M..A Razack was absolutely classic.l.
Slightly short of a length, the
In the one match remaining, Civil Service were given a good game by the Royal Engineers and only won by 4 wickets.
Engineers made 121. (Ratcliffe
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. batsman-made up his mind quite 28, Milestone 28 not out) to which
| rightly-that it was one to be hit. C. 8. C. C. replied with:144 for 8.
[He raised his bat to do so, the ball" (Hollidge 25 and McLellan 82).