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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 2, 1988.

SATURDAY'S CRICKET

H. OWEN HUGHES .

off the runs

Hit

After Logan was dismissed by Bowker, on Saturday, Cricket Club successes ended for some timę. C. E. Godby, whom we all know, and "Lieut. Clift were associated in a stand which realised 124 runs. The former played, a typical innings, hitting anything overpitched very hard indeed while, I understand, Clift was also very severe on any-

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thing not short of a length and action for the Volunteers in their Civil Service give every indica- played some beautiful wristy shots game with K. C. C. last Sunday tion of having one of their finest which flashed to the boundary. week and judging him on that per-sides for years. The men they have Unfortunately from the Army point formance, I would rate him with at present are as keen as mustard of view, however, I hear that it is the finest stumpers at present in and when "Dicky” Richardson gets not certain that he will be staying the Colony."

back next week and “Tubby" Wood here for any length of time.

gets down to serious practice, they K.C.C, v C.S.C.C.

should prove a tough nut to crack, SET ABOUT TASK

At Sookunpoo, Craigengower Over at K. C. C., the home team Cricket Club had the chance of Faced with 187, Cricket Club set could not be said to have had a very lifetime of beating their old rivals, about their task with confidence. successful afternoon. True they Indian Recreation Club, who were ITH the season ad-Ride, Pearce and Leckie all got a put together the very respectable without their skipper, A. R. Minu. vancing and bats-few and assisted by a useful con- total of 168 for 8, but at no time did Kept guessing by the wiles of A. H. men beginning to find tribution from extras, Owen Hughes they inspire confidence.

hit off the required runs. Ilsey, their touch, Saturday's who did not play very much last cricket produced higher season played some nice drives in the scoring than any pro- gramme to date.

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Highest total of the day was credited to Hong Kong Cricket Club juniors, who batted con- sistently to top the second cen- tury for the loss of only six wic- kets, and actually, no side fail- ed to reach 100.

Hong Kong Cricket Club seniors had easily the most thrilling game and not until the last ball had been bowled did they manage to scrape homé,

BY "ADREM"

At one stage in their innings,

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when Fincher and Burnett dismissed in quick succession by McLellan and three wickets

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Madar, Craigengower batsmen, who had first use of the wicket, did not fare too well and only managed to score 113 of which "Tinker" Lee made 23 not out and 'George. Souza

down for a matter of 13 runs, 20. collapse did not appear outside the realms of possibility.

Earlier, young Hollidge had run out R. T. Broadbridge, when that batsman was looking very happy, general direction of mid-off and with as pretty a piece of fielding cover and gave a most promising as has ever been seen on the K. C. C. display.

ground.

I notice that although Man caught two behind the sticks, he gave away some 25 byes and I am told that he is still feeling the effects of Army, who batted first, did not

the crack over the eye which he start off too well, their first four

suffered in the first Interport trial. batsmen all falling quickly. I was interested to see that Driver Logan wicket-keeping for a time as the He might be advised to lay off

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present hard wickets are not con- ducive to the recovery of confiden- ce and another knock like the last might have a lasting effect on his 'keeping.

of R. A. S. C. turned out. He is a product of the Shanghai Public School, being a brother of Archie Logan, well-known locally પૂર્વ a swimmer, and is an excellent bat and a first-rate wicket-keeper. I expect him to do fairly well as he I am told that J. H. Fox who becomes accustomed to local con- kept for Club gave a very credi- ditions.

table performance. I saw him in

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behind the sticks, before Broad-

Then came a bit of a sensation! Nazarin, K. M. Rumjahn, A. R. Kitchell, M. P. Madar and A. H. Madar were all bundled into the pavilion with only a matter of about 20 runs on the board and Craigen- gower prospects looked bright.

He

OFF OWN BAT Broadbridge played a perfect drive in the direction of cover where

Then came M. el Arculli. started Hollidge was fielding, and down the pitch. The fielder gathered gave a chance at 10 and then went the ball and had it back to Colledge, on to literally win the match off his own bat. He hit all and sun- dry and when finally dismissed, had scored 66. out of 96 in 67 minutes and the game was as good as won.

Billimoria bowled excellently and his analysis is worth reproduc- tion:—

bridge could recover from the shock, The result was the dismissal of a batsman who gave every indication of being extremely dangerous.

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It is noteworthy that Craigen- gower's skipper did not turn out

G. F. O'Bryen, playing in his last match in the Colony, evidently made up his mind to leave his old team with some- thing to remember him by. It will be recollected that in his first game in the Colony he played

in this match and played for the Ja dashing innings of some 60-odd which pulled K. C. C. out of an ex- when selecting the team, he went second team. He told me that tremely ticklish situation.

On this occasion he was restrain-being unable to find a place, dropped through the list of possibles and ed in the earlier stages and even-Mr.. E. Zimmern! tually totalled a most invaluable

I hear that now, an even more

43. Anderson then came in and solidified matters and a declaration curious situation has arisen. Zim-

at 168 definitely had them out of the wood.

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mern failed to distinguish himself either for the second team or on Sun- Hamson, day for the Volunteers.

Civil Service bowlers never looked very dangerous although McLellan the vice-captain, did little better. put down one or two nice ones. On the other hand, playing on Whitley never looked better than Sunday against a strong Middlesex very ordinary medium up-and-down.team, both A. K. Ismail and H. P.

REFRESHING VIGOUR

Losing Daniels for 10, Colledge who opened for the visitors, set about his task with refreshing vigour, K. C. C. fielding, about which much has already been said, was bad.

Several catches were put down and Colledge profiting by a couple of let-offs proceeded to play beautiful cricket es- pecially in front of the wicket.

When he was eventually brilliantly run-out by a coolle fielding sub- the saine coolfe, I believe, against whom allegations of short-sighted- eds were recently aimed Civil Service were in a fairly sound posi- tion as McLellan, after his usual shaky start, had played some very

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Lim, who were considered to be. on the fringe of the firsts, did well and have fairly justified a trial pro- motion.

I shall not be surprised there- fore if in their next fixture, Craigengower first eleven ap- pears without eitheir their cap- tain or vice-captain, in which event Francis Zimmern will probably lead the side.

I am afraid that I have little in- formation on the remaining senior match which was played on the Navy ground at King's Park' be- tween the Senior Service and Re- creio. The scores, however, do seem to indicate that Recreio's earlier results do not belie their. capabilities,

A POWERFUL SIDE

The naval side on Saturday, while With Arthur Lay still batting, the it did not include Whitmarsh or gamé left drawn in very bad | Manners, was definitely a good one. light,

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