The ground staff tries to dry out the wicket area during yesterday's curtailed second day of the Spaulding Cup at Melbourne Oval. - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
ONLY 15 overs in one hour of play were possible on yesterday's second day of the three-day All-Island Spaulding Cup final between rural kingpins Holmwood and corporate champions Eltham at Melbourne Oval.
After play resumed at 4:00 p.m. yesterday, Holmwood, who resumed at 192-8, were dismissed for 210.
Eltham made 108 in their first innings.
Lower-order batsman Bruce Blackwood carried on from his overnight six to get 15, while Frederick Hermitt with 4-75 was Eltham's most successful bowler. Sandre Watson, with two wickets, supported Hermitt.
Batting a second time after a disastrous first innings display, Eltham closed on 15-1.
Ziggy Levy, who was surprisingly left out of Jamaica's Under-19 squad, picked up the wicket of Matthew Stewart for one.
With 87 runs to make Holm-wood bat again, Eltham will be hoping that their top batsman Shacoya Thomas, who will resume on 12, and Andre Scott, zero, find their groove on the final day.
