f11970	Northamptonshire v New Zealanders
	New Zealand in British Isles 1927
Venue	Town Ground, Kettering on 11th, 13th, 14th June 1927 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Northamptonshire won by 82 runs
Umpires	F Parris, FH Sugg
Close of play day 1	New Zealanders (1) 86/3 (Page 4*, James 0*)
Close of play day 2	Northamptonshire (2) 260 all out

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Northamptonshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
CN Woolley	c James b Blunt	24
ACL Wills	b Allcott	68
+BW Bellamy	c Page b Blunt	14
*VWC Jupp	c Allcott b Blunt	31
FI Walden	c Lowry b Allcott	2
JE Timms	c Oliver b Blunt	55
EF Towell	c James b Blunt	0
GAASCTS Pennington	b Blunt	0
PA Wright	c Page b Blunt	9
ADG Matthews	c James b Merritt	28
AE Thomas	not out	4
Extras	(1 b, 1 nb)	2
Total	(all out, 82.1 overs)	237
Fall of wickets:
1-54, 2-78, 3-128, 4-131, 5-170, 6-171, 7-171, 8-183, 9-225, 10-237 (82.1 ov)

New Zealanders bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
McGirr	3	0	13	0	-	-
Allcott	29	11	46	2	-	-
Page	2	0	13	0	-	-
Oliver	3	1	9	0	-	-
Blunt	31	6	109	7	-	-
Bernau	6	3	9	0	-	-
Merritt	8.1	1	36	1	-	-

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New Zealanders first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JE Mills	b Jupp	18
RC Blunt	lbw b Jupp	50
*TC Lowry	b Towell	12
ML Page	b Jupp	19
+KC James	b Jupp	7
CCR Dacre	c Walden b Jupp	31
HM McGirr	c and b Jupp	19
CJ Oliver	lbw b Towell	36
CFW Allcott	c and b Jupp	9
EHL Bernau	not out	34
WE Merritt	b Thomas	5
Extras	(5 b, 3 lb, 1 nb, 2 w)	11
Total	(all out, 64.5 overs)	251
Fall of wickets:
1-50, 2-81, 3-81, 4-109, 5-114, 6-158, 7-161, 8-175, 9-241, 10-251 (64.5 ov)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Matthews	6	0	17	0	-	-
Wright	14	4	61	0	-	-
Thomas	14.5	2	35	1	-	-
Jupp	21	3	92	7	-	-
Towell	5	2	7	2	-	-
Wills	4	0	28	0	-	-

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Northamptonshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
CN Woolley	c James b Blunt	34
ACL Wills	b Merritt	7
+BW Bellamy	lbw b Merritt	0
FI Walden	b Page	43
JE Timms	st James b Merritt	46
EF Towell	run out	0
*VWC Jupp	b Merritt	17
GAASCTS Pennington	c Oliver b Merritt	33
PA Wright	b McGirr	43
ADG Matthews	c Bernau b Page	7
AE Thomas	not out	10
Extras	(8 b, 11 lb, 1 nb)	20
Total	(all out, 81.4 overs)	260
Fall of wickets:
1-19, 2-21, 3-70, 4-127, 5-127, 6-155, 7-164, 8-229, 9-247, 10-260 (81.4 ov)

New Zealanders bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
McGirr	14	3	30	1	-	-
Bernau	8	1	29	0	-	-
Merritt	26	4	63	5	-	-
Allcott	10	4	36	0	-	-
Blunt	17	1	72	1	-	-
Page	6.4	3	10	2	-	-

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New Zealanders second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JE Mills	b Wright	0
RC Blunt	b Jupp	25
*TC Lowry	c Jupp b Thomas	13
ML Page	c Bellamy b Thomas	7
CJ Oliver	b Thomas	0
HM McGirr	c Pennington b Jupp	36
CCR Dacre	b Towell	32
EHL Bernau	c Wills b Towell	18
+KC James	b Jupp	12
CFW Allcott	b Towell	8
WE Merritt	not out	9
Extras	(4 lb)	4
Total	(all out, 57.3 overs)	164
Fall of wickets:
1-2, 2-40, 3-44, 4-46, 5-51, 6-106, 7-117, 8-134, 9-153, 10-164 (57.3 ov)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wright	11	5	19	1	-	-
Towell	12.3	1	56	3	-	-
Jupp	16	1	56	3	-	-
Thomas	18	4	29	3	-	-

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Notes
--> ADG Matthews made his debut in First-Class matches
--> ACL Wills (1) passed his previous highest score of 47 in First-Class matches
--> CCR Dacre (1) passed 2500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 26
--> CN Woolley (2) passed 10500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 26
--> RC Blunt (2) passed 3500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 8
--> WE Merritt reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches when taking his 2nd wicket in the Northamptonshire second innings

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