First-Class Cricket Matches 1908

AUCKLAND v OTAGO Played at Auckland Domain, January 2, 3, 4, 1908. Auckland won by 315 runs. AUCKLAND 1 L.G.Hemus c A.A.Adams b Mackersey 41 c and b Austin 29 2 W.Brook-Smith c Watson b Mackersey 110 c A.A.Adams b Mackersey 0 3 A.E.Relf run out 42 (7) b Austin 83 4 *A.E.Hadden c Williams b Torrance 0 (6) c and b Austin 9 5 E.V.Sale b Mackersey 0 (3) b Eckhoff 25 6 G.B.Cummings b Torrance 16 (5) c and b Mackersey 34 7 L.Prime b Torrance 25 (4) c and b Eckhoff 0 8 C.Olliff lbw b Torrance 0 b Austin 8 9 †W.Robinson lbw b Torrance 7 not out 7 10 A.Kerr c A.A.Adams b Eckhoff 5 c Siedeberg b Mackersey 0 11 P.C.White not out 2 b Mackersey 2 Extras 19 14 —— —— 267 211 FoW (1): 1-116 (1), 2-170 (2), 3-170 (4), 4-173 (5), 5-214 (3), 6-223 (6), 7-225 (8), 8-233 (9), 9-262 (10), 10-267 (7) FoW (2): 1-2 (2), 2-53 (3), 3-53 (4), 4-57 (1), 5-67 (6), 6-162 (5), 7-198 (7), 8-201 (8), 9-204 (10), 10-211 (11) OTAGO 1 A.A.Adams c Hemus b Relf 21 (3) b Relf 17 2 †F.Williams b Relf 1 (11) run out 0 3 *H.G.Siedeberg c Olliff b Kerr 6 (2) lbw b White 37 4 G.G.Austin lbw b Relf 0 (1) b Relf 0 5 A.G.Eckhold b Relf 8 (4) b Kerr 6 6 W.W.Mackersey lbw b Relf 2 (5) b Relf 0 7 H.C.Watson b Relf 11 (6) lbw b Olliff 7 8 T.D.Adams c Robinson b Kerr 0 b Relf 1 9 *C.G.Wilson W.A.Kilgour not out 3 (7) not out 10 10 R.C.Torrance c Brook-Smith b Kerr 1 (9) lbw b Relf 0 11 A.D.Eckhoff c Prime b Kerr 12 (10) c Sale b Relf 0 Extras 16 4 —— —— 81 82 FoW (1): 1-1 (2), 2-3 (3), 3-18 (4), 4-32 (5), 5-45 (6), 6-50 (1), 7-55 (8), 8-57 (7), 9-62 (10), 10-81 (11) FoW (2): 1-0 (1), 2-45 (2), 3-60 (4), 4-60 (3), 5-63 (5), 6-75 (6), 7-76 (8), 8-78 (9), 9-82 (10), 10-82 (11) Otago Bowling O M R W O M R W Torrance 30.4 11 62 5 11 2 35 0 Eckhoff 21 7 52 1 16 4 48 2 Austin 17 3 54 0 17 4 40 4 Mackersey 26 6 80 3 17.3 0 66 4 Watson (5) 2 0 8 0 Auckland Bowling O M R W O M R W Relf 27 14 22 6 23 9 25 6 Hadden 4 1 5 0 White 10 4 9 0 (2) 9 2 20 1 Kerr 18 7 24 4 (3) 16 5 23 1 Olliff 5 2 5 0 (4) 7 3 10 1 Umpires: Toss: Auckland Close of Play: 1st day: Otago (1) 1-1 (A.A.Adams 0*); 2nd day: Auckland (2) 134-5 (Relf not out, Cummings not out). C.G.Wilson started as captain for Otago but was injured after 20 minutes and Kilgour was allowed to replace him with Siedeberg taking over the captaincy. 26