Thanks go to Mr.and Mrs. Metcalffor accommodating the team in Pembroke,to Mrs.Ireland for feeding them so well and to Messrs. Townshend and Thiselton for sharing the transporting and manager ship of the team during the week 13.12.65 v^. Maritzburg College King's Park 2 Hipkin won the toss and elected to bat. He and Morgan got the side off to a fine start against accurate College bowling. At 44,Morgan ran himself out going for an impossible single but thereafter Hipkin continued to bat with romplete command and he and Kent, who kept his end up very well, saw the 1TO up. in a dramatic collapse 4 wickets went down between 102 and 125, including tnat of Hipkin, who was brilliantly caught at leg slip when 8 short of his century. Useful knocks by Crewe(22)and Sawyer who scored a brisk 25,enabled Hipkin to declare at 193 for 8 leaving College 165 minutes to get the runs. College's hopes of victory were shaken early on when Dayies, bowling his inswingers with fine control, dismissed both openers before College had reached 10. Thereafter they never looked like reaching their target despite a ngnting innings of53 by their captain, Katz. Result: Match drawn. 14,12.65 vs. Northern Districts King's Park 6 Kearsney took the field first with the wind blowing strongly from the North-east. Bowling with the wind behind him. Sawyer soon had the Northern D^tricts batsmen in trouble,the first wicket falling with only 2runs on the board.Davies was replaced by Sommerville who proceeded to bowl very well indeed.Sawyer claimed 7 wickets (six of them bowled)for 26 runs while Sommerville took the remaining three. Northern Districts were all out for 57. Hipkin and Morgan gave Kearsney a good start again, the score teaching 41 before Morgan was bowled for 17. Rawlins came in at No 3and batted very well scoring 40 in 40 minutes. Hipkin performed very well scoring 63 while Campbell was not out for 25. Kearsney 174 for 7 declared. Northern Districts in their second knock scored 122 runs all out,Sommer ville taking6for 35.There was time for just one over for Kearsney to score the six runs needed for an outright victory. However,we only managed 3 ot these. Result: Won by 9 wickets on the 1st innings. 15 12,65 vi. Coastal Schools Tungay Park Coastals won the toss and batted first on an easy paced wicket. The spinners Sommerville and Jackson, were brought on early and ^ end of the innings. Sommerville's accuracy and some excellent fielding with Rawlins outstanding kept the scoring rate down while Jackson ejected 5 wickets for 35 runs with his leg-spinners. Coastals were all out for 115 at lunch. This seemed an easy target with 4hours left for play. However,after another usefulstart of39 by Hipkin and Morgan,the Coastalsseamers,bowling extrernely accurately on a wicket which deteriorated as the afternoon progressed,got right on top and completely tied down the batting with Ae exception of Morgan who went on to score 43 in a responsible innings. Our last hopes of victory vanished with the dismissal of Sawyer immediately after tea and the side was all out for 81 with an hour and 20 minutes to go. Result: Lost by 34 runs. 101
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTc3MDU5Nw==