OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 20

OVERSEAS SPORT.

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fi I'. A PRACTICE AT LORD'S. r —

r >> P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright j: " LONDON, April 24. !! The members of the Australian cricket •• team reached England yesterday.. They iwere welcomed at Dover by Lord Harris j; and Colonel Troughton and at -Victoria station, London, by Field-Marshal Lord <* Plumer, president of the Marylcbone w Cricket Club, and other prominent £ cricketers. 1 The Australians seem to be full of confidence that they will recover the Ashes. ' Speaking at a luncheon of the YorkI shire Cricket Club Lord Hawke said Jthat if the Test matches-this year were * not finished in four days it was almost 'certain that there would be a return !to three-day Test matches. * The prospect of a soft wicket for the 'opening match at Worcester, commenc?ing on April 30, probably was in Mr. P. #F. Warner's mind at a wel come to the J team at Australia House. He recalled * the days of King Canute, saying tax»gathers went to Worcester and were an*nihilated with battle axes. He hoped it Iwould'not dismay youth as personified *by Bradman and Jackson. * The Englishmen would be delighted If either came out as a rival in wizardry tpf the wondrous Victor Trumper. f The visitors had a brief practice at ; Lord's this afternoon. The bowlers did ? not attempt any strenuous efforts in view of the slippery nature of the ground and the soft pitch. Nevertheless most ef the men found their land legs very satisfactorily. The batsmen shaped well. - McCabe is improving. After watching the practice on a wicket which was almost a mud heap, Colonel Trevor writes in the "Daily Telegraph": "Grimmett clearly retains all his powers. He can spin "a googly and what is more unusual he can make his low delivery effective."