CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 7

CRICKET.

PROSPECTS FOlt THE BIG MATCH. ni TELEGBAPn —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYHIGHT. (Roc. Fob. 21, 1.18 a.m.) Sydney, February 20.' Steady, rain continual, till i 4 p.m. Since then it has boon fine, with a drying wind. Tho wickct is sodden, but if no moro rain falls it .is hoped that tho wicket will bo in' fair oondition for the Test Match by noon to-morrow. .< Owing to aai injured arm, Fielder will probably bo an absentee. Crawford, who was suffering from a heart-strain; may play. ' The match, England v, New South Wales, was abandoned owing to the rain. Now South Wales,: had , twolvo runs to: mako to win and ono wicket to fall. ON THE EVI3 OF THE FIFTH TEST. • ! . ENGLISHMEN'S AVERAGES. , (Br " THK Bladb.") The fifth Test Match starts /weather nermitlingV at : Sydney to-day. i'Tho English howlers figures of the secoqd innings in tha resent match with New South Wales have not been cabled by the Press' Association. The . figures of the first, innings disclose a deficiency of 90 runs, probably made np by the English bowlers who did 'not obtain auj- wickets. At''the. conclusion' of tho last game the Englishmen had scored 7465 runs off, the bat.. '■Sundries" total■■'2B6,' which accounts ■ for the grand total of., 7753,' which is the'cabled aggregate for all matches. !. Tho Englishmen'? batting averagesare, as follow:—

- : . . Nof. : ; • . AverNnmo, . Innings, out.'Runs. nso. J.' HardstafE ...' 23 • , 3 . '1225 ■ 58.33 W. R. Rhodes... : 22 .7 729 48.0 ,T. B. Hobbs ... ..." 17 1 732 45.75 A. 0. Jones .,i ... 12 1 46G -12.30 L.' C.iiBrauntl : . 212 ' 739 - -88.89 K. L. .Hutchings ... 23 , , 0 , 870 i 37.82 G. Gunn ... ., 13 ' 0 ' ' ■ICS - 85.84'. l'\ L: Fane ... ... 20 1 017 ' 31.05 J.. N. Crawford .... 20 0, :. 517. 35.85■ •R. A.,'Young ... 12 ■' 0 . 245, 20.41' S. F. Barnes ... IS 4 237 19.75 A> Fielder'! ... "• ... 16' 8 ... 134 ; 16,75 E. G. Kayos ... 14 .0. 230 1G.42 C. Blytho. ... 18" 1 "13G 11.33 J. Humphries - ... 13 1 > 92 7,(j(j