Sluis and L. Lawrance gave the eventual winners an excellent start by recording 114 for the first partnership in good time. At this point Sluis was stumped by Knight off Taylor-Gill for a fine 57 during which he reached the boundary seven times. Lawrance was slower in his methods and when he out at 133, another victim to Taylor-Gill, he had score? four boundaries in a very useful innings of 55. Smith and Brown took up the task of smacking the attack all over the field and they were success ful in their efforts and though the middle of the side failed to get runs, Crickmer, Sim and Duckitt, at the bottom of the list, scored heavily and quickly with the result that the final total reached the huge amount of for nine wickets when stumps were drawn. Taylor-Gill was the mos
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