THE CHINA MAIL, JULY, 80, 1988.
Wood Trophy Cricket Match
FIRST DAY'S PLAY IN S'HAI CLASSIC DUNKLEY DOES WELL, DUCKITT SCRATCHES!
Shanghai, July 24,
CLOSE of play scores yesterday in the second
G. 8. DUNKLEY
MANNERS HITS CENTURY
Shanghai Match
Shanghai, July 25.
A magnificent innings by Lieut. Manners, who retired at 117, the highest score here this season, do- minated yesterday's match at the left without a run added. Stokes Shanghai Cricket Club ground be
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match of the Wood Series between the Cric- ket Club and the Recreation Club indicate that a played well for his 19, exhibiting a tween an S.C.C. eleven and H.M.S. struggle will ensue when play is resumed this variety of stokes all round the wic-Birmingham, which the latter, won morning on the Recs ground. The home side was ket; but caught unawares by a well- by 125 runs.
flighted delivery he was taken by all out for 131, but the Cricket Club could not do Kellner. better than 94 for five wickets, leaving R. Booth and G. S. Dunkley to hold the fort to-day.
Manners was at the wicket for just under an hour, and after DUCKITT SCRATCHES!
cautious beginning hit out steadily Even though he displayed the to score at an average rate of two utmost caution Duckitt gave two runs a minute. In all, he hit 20 THE RECS STARTED OFF RATHER SHAKILY, LOSING chances in quick succession, and boundaries, 18 fours and two sixes. succumbed to Kellner. The Recs In one sensational over he punished HART-BAKER, QUINCEY AND H. P. MADAR WITH ONLY 33 bowler was not keeping a good Thomson to the extent of 25 runs. RUNS. ON THE BOARD. HOWEVER, THANKS TO A STAND length, and should have been pun- BETWEEN PAT MADAR AND M. J. DIVECHA THE SCORE ished more severely; but his victims GRADUALLY ROSE.
and
five wickets in hand. The visitors still have four run-getters in the Pavilion, and it would not be sur prising to see these men double the no present score.
made simple mistakes.
With the arrival of G, S. Dunkley and his skipper fresh hope was instilled into the Ringing the changes frequent-W. G. Graham ly D. W. Leach, skipper of the opened the Cricket Club innings at side, and although the rate of scor-
slow, yet both he visiting side, took every advant- 5:10 p.m., to the bowling of Shroffing was
re at the Pavilion and Torry Wilson Booth showed more confidence than age of the wicket, and was warded by consistent dismissals. at the far end. Obviously the cor- the preceding batsmen. Careful Outstanding among the attacking rect thing in such an instance was running brought the score up to 94. bowlers was R. Booth, who kept to hit out and make as many runs at which stumps were drawn with an excellent length throughout, on the first day as possible, and and was responsible for Madar re- with this in view Leach laid around turning to the Pavilion when that from the start. Accustomed to go- man seemed set for many more. ing in at No. 5 or No. 6 the visit Stokes was also in fine form, thoughing captain showed himself at times a trifle erratic, while Dun-mean opening bat, and viciously at- kley behind the sticks played his tacked the bowling. In despair P. Madar, c. and b. Booth
N. Hart-Baker, c. Sub, b. Stokes usual sound game, only giving away Wilson called on Kellner to replace L. P. Quincey, b. Leach four byes. Leach accepted three him, and after twenty minutes H. P. Madar, c. Sub, b. Stokes..
to dismiss F. R. play, during which he scored 38 M. J. Divecha, c. Duckitt, b. Booth chances, the one Kermani being brilliant, but on the out of 47, Leach drove off his legs S. F. Shroff, c. Leach, b. Stokes. whole the Club's fielding was poor, to Allan at long leg, and the latter T. J. Allan, not out
F. R. Kermani, c. and b. Leach made no mistake.
T. W. R. Wilson, c. Leach, b. Booth J. Leriou, b. Jenkins LEACH ATTACKS BOWLING ·
F. F. Kellner, b. Leach
Extras With the prospect of having to play in gradually waning light,
Archie Sinclair found Madar dif- ficult from the beginning, and after lattempting to put him away twice failed to survive an appeal, and
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He scored boundaries off the first six balls of the over, and then ran a single on the seventh."
He also starred with the ball, taking four Club wickets for a mere twenty-five runs, in seven
Christison and Moores each three wickets.
overs, took
S.C.C. BAT FIRST The S.C.C. went in first, opening their, innings at 1.40 p.m. with They had Thomson and Anstice. scored 24 before Thomson was caught and bowled by Moores.
Geere followed him half an hour. later, with the fifty still not up on the board. Then with Williams 1 at the other end. Anstice opened up 9 for a bit, and hit a couple of boun- 13 daries. When Anstice went, how-
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28 ever, the rest of the side, with the 4 exception of Heap, were dismissed
1 cheaply, and the Club were all out
for 125, runs,
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7 The Navy eleven started its in- nings just after four o'clock, and 131 Chapman and Collins started scoring freely off Anstice and Laird. Man- ners succeeded Collins when the stood at fifty.⠀⠀ Chapman went. soon after, and was followed soon after by Lees. By this time Manners had dug himself in, and started to hit out really hard. (Continued on Page 21)
score
Fall of wkts-1-29 (Hart-Baker), 2-24 (Quincey), 8-88 (Madar), 4-71 (Divecha), 5-72 (Madar), 6-89 (Shroff), 7-98 (Kermani), 8-109 (Wileon), 9-114 (Leriou), 10-181 (Kellner).
Bowling
1.
Stokes
Booth
Leach
Graham,
Jenkins
B.C.C.
co.
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D. W. Leach, c. Allan, b. Kellner."
W. G. Graham, c. Madar, b. P. Madar
A. C. Sinclair, Lb.w., P. Madar.
R. Booth, not out beca
LF. Stokes, o and b. Kellner.. E. R. Duckitt, 1.b.w., Kellner. G. 8. Dunkley, not out
Extras
Fall of
{(For:5`wktä) 1-29 (Graham) ig (Leach), 8-47 (Sinclair), 4-88 (8token), 5-76 (Duckitt).
Wilson B. F. Shroff
Bowlin
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