BIG CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 7

BIG CRICKET.

" VERY ORDINARY."

Australian Cricket Team Of

Possibles.

SELECTION CONTROVERSY.

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

SY DXEY, this day.

The Australian eleven (not for the Test) is definitely completed. Rvder is not available. 'ilie team is:—Richardson (captain), Scott and Harris, of South Australia; Xothling, Queensland: Andrews, Oldfield, Bettington, Morgan, Hooker, Jackson and Bradman, of New South Wales. Seaile, of Victoria, is twelfth man.

The team is regarded as very ordit:ary, and the Englishmen are not taking it very seriously. There is considerable Press controversy over the method of selection.

'SHIRT-FRONT WICKETS'

Warner Predicts Week-Long

Test Matches.

ONLY FINE WEATHER NEEDED,

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10 a.in.) LONDON, November 13. In his special article in the "Morning Post"' P. A. Warner states: "A total of 1447 runs for 20»wickets, or an average of 72 per wicket, is an a. /utnent for those advocating the abolition of the shirt-front pitch. It looks as if, given strong batting teams and fine weather, four days would rarely be sufficient to bring a match in Australia to a conclusion. My view is that nothing is wrong with the laws of cricket, but we should return to the normal wicket. Some of the coming Tests may well last seven or eight days."

"Kjppax," he adds, "is now certain of a place in the Australian eleven. Bradman's career is remarkable for one so young. He delights in giving the bowler 'the rush' as A. G. Steel would put it. Kippax and Bradman apparently mastered Freeman by going down the pitch to him."