AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER.

SUCCESS AT HOME. B? TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT London, May 12. Playing for , Surrey against Derbyshire, A. Marshal took seven wickets for 41 runs. He took fivo wickots in thirteen balls, without a run being scored;. After scoring 59 for Surrey, Marshall took live wickets for 32, in Derbyshire's second innings. Surrey won by ten wickets. f IN TARRANJ'S FOOTSTEPS. A. Marshal hails from Queensland, and promises to even rival his fellow Australian, Tarrant (from Victoria) in making an all-round reputation in English cricket; 'Last soason he was ninth in Surrey's bowling averages, taking 21 wickets at 24.85 runs apiece; and ho Was also ninth in. the batting averages with 21.76 for 50 innings, his total being 1065 runs, including one century, Jill against Worcestershire.' Good as those figures 'are, they are not .as good as what " "Wisdcn " says of his play last season "A great deal of interest was taken in the doings of the Queensland player, Marshal. ■ As a batsman, he was rather disappointing, but he is sure to jet on better in the future. His weakness was a lack of sufficient confidence to play his proper game. He is by nature a hitter, but except on rare occasions he did not lot himself go. As an all-round cricketer, he gives vory high promise indeed. All through, the summer ho fielded splendidly, being by far' the surest catch in the eleven, and in August a tardy discovery, was made of his ability as a bowler. Rieht hand, medium pace, he got on a fair amount of spin,.and his great height made the flight of the ball rather difficult to. follow. He took so many wickots in club cricket in 1005 that ho ought to have been given his opportunity wuch earlier in the season." Thirteon is probably the smallest number of balls with which fi.vo wickets have been secured in first-class county orickot. An intrinsically better performance is that of A. Trott, also an Australian, who in May, .1807, in his benefit match at Lord's, for Middlesex v. Somerset, in the second innings of the latter, took four wickets with four balls, and also performed tbo hat trick. j In 18511, playing for Oxford University against' 'Oxfordshire, A. Cazciiovo took five wickets witli fivo balls. In 1559, .John Wisden, at Rochester (United Stales), playing for All England against, a United Statos and Canada eleven, obtained six wickets with six balls. The groatest number of wickets obtained with successive deliveries is eight, claimed by James Walker in a club match in Staffordshire in 1882.