sentences:  This established a new record for the side in first-class cricket, beating Don Clarke's 8/37 of just two months previously.Alabaster's mark stood for less than a year, until Maurice Langdon claimed 8/21 against Auckland in January 1964.In a first-class career stretching from 1955-56 to 1975-76 he took 275 wickets at 23.24, and made 3200 runs at 23.88, with three centuries including a highest score of 108 for Otago against Central Districts at Wanganui in 1964-65.