IHE Wanderers maintained their grip on the leading league position at the S.C.C. Ground yesterday afternoon when, in a game that produced very few runs, they beat the Police by four wickets. The Police batted first and failed badly, the efforts of their batsmen only resulting in a total of 84 runs. The hosts made no mistake in their innings and cleared off the runs needed for the loss of six wickets, but not before they had received more than a scare.
With the exception of Boddy all the earlier Police bats made a terrible hash of things, Stokes being responsible for most of the damage with his slow swervers delivered into a strong down wind, When the seventh wicket fell at 32 it seemed a foregone conclusion that the lawmen would not reach the half-century mark, but the tail enders pulled the game out of the fire for a little while at least, some good hitting by Woodley and Baldock eventually resulting in a total of 84 being placed on the board. Woodley with 32 was high scorer while Boddy and Baldock who reached 17 and 10 respectively were the only other two Police bats to reach double figures, "The Wanderers began badly Rey-naids being sent back for a duck with only a single on the board, Underwood and Duckitt improved matters considerably though neither played Woodley with much confidence. The former batsman was caught at 26 at which point a slight rot set, in, the third partnership being broken up at 30 and the fourth at 88, Meanwhile Stokes was batting well and through his efforts the score kept mounting. He played a number of balls from Woodley dangerously near point and ence he should have been taken in the slips, Nevertheless he batted well for his runs, but when Leach left at 61 and Graham was bowled, sixth out, at 66, it seemed that the Police had a fighting chance, but Elliot and Stokes put paid to such ideas and they scored the remaining runs in quick time to gain a well deserved four wickets victory, Woodley, with four wickets for 27 runs, was the best bowler of the K Police, Police C.C,
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