First-Class Cricket Matches 1952

EAST ZONE v M.C.C. Played at Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur, January 6, 7, 8, 1952. M.C.C. won by nine wickets. M.C.C. 1 F.A.Lowson c Girdhari b Das 10 not out 7 2 †D.V.Brennan c Banerjee b Bose 12 b P.M.Chatterjee 6 3 T.W.Graveney c Rajindernath b Das 0 not out 1 4 J.D.B.Robertson st Frank b N.C.Chatterjee 183 5 A.J.Watkins b P.M.Chatterjee 63 6 D.B.Carr not out 66 7 M.J.Hilton not out 5 8 C.J.Poole 9 *N.D.Howard 10 E.Leadbeater 11 D.Shackleton Extras b 18, lb 7, w 1, nb 5 31 b 1, lb 4, nb 1 6 —— —— (5 wickets, declared) 370 (1 wicket) 20 FoW (1): 1-19, 2-19, 3-35, 4-161, 5-357 FoW (2): 1-14 (2) EAST ZONE 1 S.Das c Howard b Shackleton 7 c and b Hilton 17 2 *S.N.Banerjee b Watkins 15 lbw b Watkins 1 3 N.C.Chatterjee c Brennan b Shackleton 4 (6) c and b Leadbeater 46 4 B.Frank not out 98 b Watkins 75 5 P.M.Chatterjee b Watkins 0 b Robertson 37 6 †V.Rajindernath c Brennan b Shackleton 7 (3) b Hilton 8 7 S.Om Prakash lbw b Leadbeater 5 retired hurt 9 8 S.K.Girdhari c Brennan b Leadbeater 9 c Robertson b Leadbeater 23 9 B.Patnaik c Robertson b Leadbeater 0 b Watkins 1 10 A.Hazarika b Shackleton 7 c Carr b Leadbeater 3 11 B.K.Bose b Shackleton 0 not out 0 Extras b 5, nb 1 6 b 1, lb 5, nb 2 8 —— —— 158 228 FoW (1): 1-19, 2-23, 3-53, 4-53, 5-72, 6-107, 7-123, 8-131, 9-150, 10-158 FoW (2): 1-4, 2-26, 3-75, 4-108, 5-191, 6-191, 7-224, 8-228, 9-228 East Zone Bowling O M R W O M R W Om Prakash 1 1 0 0 Banerjee 12 1 55 0 Das 13 4 30 2 P.M.Chatterjee 25 2 90 1 (1) 3 1 5 1 Bose 24 3 84 1 (2) 3.3 0 9 0 Girdhari 14 4 59 0 N.C.Chatterjee 2 0 21 1 M.C.C. Bowling O M R W O M R W Shackleton 18.4 1 64 5 20 7 27 0 Watkins 11 4 26 2 27.2 10 64 3 Leadbeater 10 0 55 3 22 7 44 3 Hilton 3 1 7 0 18 7 52 2 Carr (5) 13 2 33 0 Robertson (6) 2 2 0 1 Umpires: B.C.Ghosh and P.K.Sinha. Toss: Close of Play: 1st day: M.C.C. (1) 370-5 (Carr 66*, Hilton 5*); 2nd day: East Zone (2) 97-3 (Frank 65*, P.M.Chatterjee 5*). J.D.B.Robertson’s 183 took 240 minutes and included 26 fours and 2 sixes. S.Om Prakash retired hurt in the East Zone second innings having scored 9 (team score 224-6). B.Frank took over as wicket-keeper when V.Rajindernath injured a finger. 79