CRICKET

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8994, 5 January 1895, Page 7

CRICKET

Pceee Association.—By Telegraph.—Copyrights ADELAIDE, January 4. The Oriokeb Association ia asking the Englishmen to allow the wicket for the matoh here next week to be proteoted against the weather. Moses will probably be included in the next Australian team. A. Trott, of Victoria, ia a certainty, and Wor« rail and Harry from the same colony are also probable. Coningham will be omitted. MELBOURNE, January 4. The Age makes no reference to the late test match beyond stating that in order to ensure the full strength of Australia in the third test match, in Adelaide, beginning "" this day week, A. E. Trott, J. Harry; and J. Worrall have been invited to go over pending the final selection. The Argus devotes a sub-leader to the subject, maintaining that if in the Sydney . match it may fairly be argued though the Englishmen achieved a victory the Australians carried off the honours, in the matob just fought on the Melbourne cricket ground the Englishmen won honestly by 84 rune. There is nothing remaining, it says, for the Australian players but the business ol ex- . plaining their defeat, a matter which requires a good deal of explanation. Luck, says the Argus, is of course the disturbing force of great potency in cricket, but the figures ia the late matoh seem to show that nerve or want of netve counts for much, even amongst the famous and experienced players. No one oan pretend the . inglorious total of 40 runs represents the' contribution that six players like Darling, - Gregory, « Lyons, Uqningham, Jar vie, and Trumble, might be expeoted to make at such a crisis in the cricketing fortunes of Australia. It may be doubted, . indeed, whether either the Englishmen or Australians have shown their true and highest batting form ia the test mtttoh just played. In the great score of 686 made by the Australians in Sydney three batfcmeii made 443, while the remaining seven only contributed 143. The bowling on both sidee makes great scores possible, and we m%y reasonably expect to see very high figures reached in the remaining test matches. . In the news columns of the same paper, " Observer," the well-known cricket scribe, cays it is now clear there ie so little between the two tesrae that it must alway* be fta interesting match when ;.they meet Hβ further maintains that though the Australians rival the Englishmen in bowling, they ~ suffer by comparison with the visitors ia . batting. i After the luncheon yesterday, [replying to the health of the two teams, Mr Stoddart expressed the view that the matoh bad been won on its merits, whilst Giffen expressed a desire that the rubber might be-won by the best team, which he' hoped they would excuse him saying was the Australian team. LONDON, January 4. , Commenting on the late .test match, ( tb« Standard vencures the opinion that ; Scoddarb's performance in Australia v almost equals that of Grace when he was in the zenith of his fame. ' ■ ' • ' The Daily News says the team has surpassed expectations. ■ '