1st XI AVERAGES BATTING. No. Times of Not Ings. Out Runs Rayson 15 1 306 Speight 15 2 282 Shardlow ... 14 — 284 Wright ... 11 2 172 Oliver ... 7 2 70 142 Dook ... 12 — 105 Forsythe 12 2 31 Macpherson 6 • 1 2 38 Boyes ... 10 Clark ... 4 1 14 Hudson ... 7 2 22 Andrews ... 10 4 22
* Denotes not out.
Highest Score Aver. 60 21.9 59 21.7 53 20.3 61 19.1 27 14.0 37 11.8 30• 10.5 12 6.2 4.8 7• 4.7 8* 4.4 9 8* 3.7
Boyes Clark Dook Rodger Andrews Shardlow Rayson
BOWLING. WickMaiDyers. dens. Runs. ets. 24 326 32 ...109 11 174 14 ... 60 28 ...I03 21 367 7 5 101 ... 35 ... 75 11 280 19 ... 27 4 100 6 14 230 10 78
Aver. 10.2 12.4 13.2 14.4 14.7 16.7 23.0
PUBLIC SCHOOLS' CRICKET WEEK. The season 1945 ended on a high note with a week of festival cricket. Representatives of Bootham, Bradford Grammar, Giggleswick, Leeds Grammar and Sedbergh Schools were our guests for the week when, under glorious summer skies and on perfect wickets (for which our thanks are due to the groundsman, Mr. C. Wallbank), the game of cricket was seen at its best. Two separate elevens of approximately equal strength played matches on Wednesday and Thursday, and the strongest team that could be found from them did battle against our visitors from Lancashire in a two-day match that was the climax of the week. A Yorkshire Schools XI v. 50th Division.
Early disaster befell the Schools when Rayson was run out, and the fast bowling of Henderson and Watson had the boys in trouble, and only Aber, C., of the early batsmen met with any success. Determined batting by Clark, and useful contributions from Rhodes, Boyes and Hall, however, saw the total mount to 133. The 50th Division had a strong batting side, but the bowling of Rhodes, Clark and Aber, G., was never loose, with the result that although the runs came at a steady pace, six wickets were claimed before the Schools' total was passed. A Yorkshire Public Schools X.
C. P. Aber, b. Watson ... ... J. C. Rayson, run out ... ... G. M. Aber, c. Elderton, b. Watson J. T. Barker, l.b.w., b. Hawley ... ... A. R. Foster, b. Henderson ... W. J. Clark 1.b.w., b. Innis D. F. Rhodes, b. Henderson ... ... K. A. Boyes, b. Murray ... ... T. P. Hall, b. Watson ... J. C. Ratcliff, b. Watson A. J. Graham, not out ... ... Extras
50th Division.
Capt. Anderton, 1.b.w., b. Aber, G. 20 Lt. Godfrey, b. Rhodes ... ... 6 Pte. Innis, l.b.w., b. Aber, G. ... 30 Sgt. Shreeve, c. Foster, b. Clark 32 Maj. Brown, c. Boyes, b. Clark ... 14 8 Lt. Murray, l.b.w., b. Rhodes 10 Lt. Henderson, not out ... 5 Sgt. Whittle, not out ... 9 Extras
25 6 0 3 16 12 19 14 1 0 29
133
For 6 wkts.
134
A Yorkshire Public Schools XI v. R. Richardson's XI.
On Thursday the opposition was provided by a very strong local side, and the bowling (faster than anything the boys had experienced before) of Close and Pearson caused great trouble. The Schools' score of 103 was due entirely to splendid innings by Harrison, Blakey, and Dook. 29
