NEXT TEST SERIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 7

NEXT TEST SERIES.

ENGLAND OUT TO WIN. deceived 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Australian cricketer W. A. Oldfield, who lias returned from England, declared that England is taking cricket seriously, and in order to retain the ashes in the next test matches Australia will have to put as strong a team in the field as that captained by Armstrong. The county clubs are searching the land for promising material, and treating the pitches so that practice could be carried on practically throughout the year. Regarding Mac Donald he declared that without the support of the Australian fieldsmen he was convinced that he could not attain, on English wickets, the standing of excellence won in the Australian eleven.— ; (A. and N.Z. Cable.) BOWLERS' DAY OUT. LONDON, August 11. Several sensational bowline feats were effected on rain-damaged wickets. Gloucestershire dismissed Yorkshire for 6ti, Parker celebrated. his benefit match by taking nine wickets.for 36 runs, including the "hat trick." Yorkshire then dismissed Gloucestershire - for 58 runs, Rhodes taking five wickets for 24 runsy Leicestershire .dismissed Glamorgan- . shire for 51. Astill took five wickets ■ for 23 runs, taking thr--_c wickets with four balls. Cook, for Lancashire, took "three Hampshire wickets in one over.—(A. and N.Z.)