Queensland Cricket Archive

misc13544	New South Wales Colts v Queensland Colts
	Other matches in Australia 1962/63 (Sydney Gregory Cup)
Venue	Sydney Cricket Ground No 2, Sydney on 7th, 8th, 9th November 1962 (3-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	New South Wales Colts won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	P Berridge, WE Hicks
Close of play day 1	New South Wales Colts (1) 358/6 (Walters 86, Watkins 71)
Close of play day 2	Queensland Colts (1) 143/4 (Gray 48, Seccombe 40)

New South Wales Colts first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
PC Kelly	c Lusk b Skuse	36
LA Marks	b Kitching	7
KV McMullen	c Parker b Allen	25
*TH Lee	c Howard b Lusk	20
+HB Taber	c and b Skuse	47
G Goffet	b Allen	58
KD Walters	not out	140
JR Watkins	c Howard b Lusk	94
AS Elvy	not out	26
P Harris	did not bat
GE Corling	did not bat
Extras	(4 b, 2 nb)	6
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 97 overs)	459
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Marks), 2-38 (McMullen), 3-69 (Lee), 4-108 (Kelly), 5-158 (Taber), 6-216 (Goffet), 7-388 (Watkins)

Queensland Colts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Allen	26	3	123	2	-	-
Kitching	19	1	104	1	-	-
Lusk	19	1	88	2	-	2
Skuse	26	9	84	2	-	-
Parker	7	0	54	0	-	-

Queensland Colts first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
J Brown	lbw b Corling	9
+KJ Howard	b Corling	6
GT Gray	lbw b Watkins	90
*DJ King	c Lee b Elvy	14
GM Egan	c Watkins b Corling	16
DH Seccombe	b Goffet	144
RT Allen	c Kelly b Lee	11
RE Parker	not out	52
AR Skuse	lbw b Corling	23
W Kitching	b Corling	0
OW Lusk	not out	0
Extras	(4 b, 14 lb, 6 nb)	24
Total	(9 wickets, 144 overs)	389
Fall of wickets:
1-9 (Howard), 2-19 (Brown), 3-43 (DJ King), 4-65 (Egan), 5-261 (Gray), 6-280 (Allen), 7-341 (Seccombe), 8-388 (Skuse), 9-388 (Kitching)

New South Wales Colts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Harris	7	1	18	0	-	-
Corling	30	8	69	5	-	5
Lee	28	9	66	1	-	-
Watkins	39	12	103	1	-	-
Elvy	28	12	80	1	-	1
Walters	4	1	10	0	-	-
Goffet	8	1	19	1	-	-

Notes
--> Queensland Colts full substitute: DH Seccombe for B King

Twelfth men: RI Letherbarrow (New South Wales Colts), DH Seccombe (Queensland Colts)
Match notes
Queensland gained the upper hand early in the game though there was some middle order revival. It was not until Watkins joined Walters that New South Wales managed to take control and achieve a winning position. Though showing signs of brilliance at times Walters stroke play at that time was described as being quite agricultural. Still that mattered little for in his innings he hit twenty-two fours and three sixes, one of the sixes landing in Kippax Lake across Driver Avenue.
Queensland also began poorly and four wickets were down for just 65 runs when Seccombe joined Gray and 196 runs were added for the fifth wicket. From there Seccombe continued to record top score of the match. In the end Queensland just managed to save the game for last man Lusk faced four balls from Corling before it was time to draw stumps. With Queensland holding the Sydney Gregory Cup the drawn result allowed them to keep it for another year.
On the opening day Brian King while fielding damaged a cartledge in the knee and was forced to leave the field. As he had not batted or bowled the New South Wales Colts captain allowed DH Seccombe to replace him in the team for the remainder of the match. GR Southwell withdrew from the New South Wales Colts team when he was unable to re-arrange his final examinations in architecture and was replaced by KD Walters.