CRICKET.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 215, 30 October 1888, Page 3

CRICKET.

A match was played at Te Hapara on Saturday between two elevens picked by Lewis and Wyllie. This took the place of the Married v. Single match, several of those who were to play for the Married being absent. Wyllie won the toss and elected to go to the wickets, and sent in Bloomfield and Bilham to face the bowling of Lewis and Lemuel. Bloomfield soon gave way to Wyllie, leaving the score at 9 for one wicket. Wyllie and Bilham made things merry for a time till 35 were run up, when a ball from Izod despatched Bilham (10). Johnstone followed by slipping the first ball into Harris’s hands. Nepia, who came next, hit one to leg for 4 and shortly afterwards put a ball from Lewie into Harris’J hands. Morgan now joined Wyllie and rar] up several extras and singles till Morgan hi! one away and ran 7 before lost ball wal called, eventually raising his score to 151 The remaining wickets quickly fell to th! bowling of Loomb and Lewis, Wyllie (111 being caught by the former off the latter’! bowling. Extras—2s—brought the total up t| 73. Loomb and Edwards then took thl wickets for Lewis’s side. These started t| score merrily and had run up 9 when Bloom! field separated them, Harris taking Edwards! place, Harris’s wicket fell with the first ball from Bloomfield—Loomb at this point wal obliged to leave, having made two singles an! a two, Lemuel and Lewis now took th! wickets, the former hitting one away to th! left for 5. A straight ball from Bloomfi«ll prevented Lemuel (9) from reaching doubl| figures—indeed the only one to reach doubll figures on this side was Fox (11), who playp(l a steady game until he was run out by hil partner Douglas, who by the way created saml amusement by his anxiety to ♦Kget a show’l when a question arose as to whether time wal up or not. Whan time was called the total J including 11 extras, was 41— Mills did not ba£ and Lo mb left the field, the match resulting in favor of W.yllie’s team. The match was a very interesting, one, but it was very evident that all were out of practice, Some of the bowling was very good and the batting was up to the average, but the fielding was very loose on both sides. Several catches were missed and overthrows were somewhat frequent,