TRIAL AT LORD'S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1938, Page 16

TRIAL AT LORD'S.

HAMMOND-ALIEN LEADERS. ROBINS AND VOCE EXCLUDED. LONDON, May 29. Tea me selected by Sir Pelham Warner, Messrs. P. A. Perrin, A. B. Sellere and M. J. Turnbull for a trial match starting at Lord's on Wednesday, after which the first Test XI. to meet the Australians at Nottingham on June 10, 11, 13 and 14, will be chosen:— England: W. R. Hammond, captain (Gloucestershire), R. E. S. Wyatt (Warwickshire), F. R. Brown (Surrey), K. Farnea (Eseex), H. Verity and L. Hutton (Yorkshire), I. iE. O. Ames (Kent), J. Hardstaff (Notts), J. Smith, W. J. Edrich and D. Compton (Middlesex). The Rest: Q. O. B. Allen, captain (Middlesex), D. R. Wilcox (Essex), N. W. D. Yardley (Cambridge University), E. Payuter (Lancashire), W. Farrimond (wicket-keeper, Lancashire), R. Pollard (Lancashire), L. B. Fishlock (Surrey), James Langridge (Sussex), H. £. Dollery (Warwickshire), O. H. Pope (Derbyshire), D. V. P. Wright (Kent). The 'most noteworthy omissions are those of R. W. V. Robins (Middlesex)/ who captained England against New Zealand in all three 1037 Tests, and W. Voce, the Notts left-arm express, wKo was easily England's beet bowler in the 1036-37 Teat' Hones in ,Australia. Brown's inclusion in the England. XI. may cause some pi'isre, but heffirjan all-rounder, (daehfng batsman and fielder, and googly bowler) who helped materially to beat New Zealand in the only one of the three matches finished last year.