SHERWELL'S MEN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 6

SHERWELL'S MEN.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR HALF FINISHED, BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES, FAULKNER TOPS 1000 SUNS. The South African team, the question of whose tour of the Commonwealth.'for a long time hung in tho balance owing to the difficulty .of getting a.guarantee from .tho Australian Board at' Control—, and without which guarantee the tour was finally decided upon—on "Wednesday with the second Test completed the eleventh match out of tho twenty-one on the programme drawn up. The first game played was that against South Australia, and by their performance the South Africans ran into good esteem as a batting combination, winning by 281 runs, their second innings producing 507 runs, tho big figures being Nourso 201 not out. 1 and Striker MG. After this warm scoring a' defeat by five wickets by Victoria 1 was not looked for, and New South Wales' also proved a proposition—three wickets too good for the Springboks. The next Stato to succumb to the visitors was Queensland, who were defeated by 122. runs. A game against an Australian eleven at Brisbano followed, and this was drawn, while. tho first Test at Sydney ended in a win for the select of Australia by an .innings and 1H runs. The fielding of tho South Africans has been almost invariably highly "reported upon,.and Sherwell. seems to have proved himspjf a pastmaster bphind the wickets. The South Airican "googly" bowling was n-uch dismissed ore tho team arrived on Australian soil, and much was expected of it. The fact seems to be—and all cricketers understand it—that good, .slow bowling always has, and always will, take wickets. But whether the South African

"googly" .is of the same pattern as Bosanquet's, or whether it has done all that was claimed for it, is another .question. Generally spooking, tlie harder the wicket tlie more likely the "googly" is to succeed. ■'Of the-batsmen of "the team, with only half the tour gone, Faulkner has already reached four figures. His scores hav# been: 51, '4, 50, 69, 74; 1, 54, 73, 70, 21, G2, 43, 2G, 49, 117, .89, 204,. 8, which is evidence of his consistency. He has topped 200 once, 100 twice,.and 50'..eleven times out of 18 innings, and only three times failed to reach double figures. Nourse, who is second in averages, has only topped 50 on five occasions. Excluding his big second strike against South Australia, Nourse has batted eleven times in first-class matches for 273 runs. Minor matches have been fatal to Strieker, as in five innings he has compiled an aggregate of onlv 40 runs, while Sherwell in - minor matches has only..aggregated 17 for three innings. In big matches Llewellyn has. compiled only 203 runs for twelve completed innings, . and in smaller games 2G7 runs for four innings. In big matches Pegler has scored 0, 4, 0, 0, 8, 4, 8, and o—rather poor batting. In smaller matches he\ scored 19 not out, 4, and 37 not out. In minor games Snooke had five innings for 207 runs, and in more important fixtures twelve innings for 141 runs. • '

Of the bowlers, in. the secondary matches, Pegler has taken 30 wickets for 242 runs, bat has not been so successful in first-class • games. The other bowlers, excepting Schwarz, have been severely dealt with in the more important games. Vogler, who was, while in England, described as the best bowler in the world, has only captured seventeen wickets at 35 runs apiece. He was left out of. tho last Test match, and as he was bowling in the match at Bendigo at Christmas time, he evidently was not omitted solely on account of a damaged finger, but because of the wickets being too good for him. Nourse, who has always'been rockoned a fairly good bowler, has taken one wicket for'2o9. THE AVERAGES. .. THE PRINCIPAL MATCHES.. The following are tlie averages "for thg .principal,.matches, those against, Australia (2), .an Eleven of Australia,' South .Australia,. Victoria, and I New- Soutii Wales, the games against Queensland, Toowomba, .Newcastle, Combined Uhiver- ,< sities, and Bendigo matches'being-omit- * ted:— ' '

Batting. . .. . Not Highest ■ AverInn. Out. Score. Runs. age. Faulkner .... 12 'T— 20} 660 55 Nourse 12 2 201* 474 47.4 Strieker 12 1 146 338 30.73 Sherwell 12 4 . 76* 240 30 Sinclair 6 1 5S* 126 25.2 Pearse 10 1 52* 18S 20.83 Schwarz 10 — ' 64 183 18.3 Llewellyn .... 12 — 50 203 16.92 Zulcli - 12 1 58 183 .16.63 Vogler ...—. 10 2 41. 128 .16 Snooke - ...... 12 — • 77- • -144 12 Commaille _ 4 1 23* ■. 26 8.68 Pegler , 7 - 8.- '20 ..2.85 - . v'lndicatcs not out. . Bowling. • Wickets. Euns. Average. Pearse - 3 56 18.66 Schwarz 28 624 22.28 Pegler 8 212 26.5 Llewellyn 8 263 32.87 Faulkner 14 49i' 35.05 Vogler 17 597 35.11 Sinclair . 6 253 . 42.18 Strieker 1 56 sfi Snooke ..... :. .1 - •80 80 Nourse 1 209 209 ■ ' ■ IN AIL MATCHES". 1 Batting. Not. High. • Inn. out. score. Euns. Avge. Faulkner 18 .1 204 1068 62.82 Nourse 18 2 201* 70S .44.12 Llewellyn •... 1G 2 148* 470 33.57 Strieker ... 17 1 146 378 23.62 Sherwell ... 15 4 • 76* 257 23.36 Zulcli 18 2 99 368 23 Schwarz ... 15 1 64 315 22.5 Sinclair ... 10 1 58* 193 21.44 Snooke ...... 17 —' 93 351 20.65 Pearse ...... 16 1 52* 271 18.06 Commaille 9 1 61 132 36:5 Vogler ...... 14 2 .41 145 12.03 Pegler 10 2 37* SO 10 Campbell ... 4 2 9* 21 10.5 Hathorn.... 5 0 15 28 5.6 'Indicates not out. Bowling. . Wickets. Euns. Average. Pegler 38 - 459 12.07. Commaille 2 25 12.5 . Schwarz 47 938 19.74 Blewellyn 16 365 22.81 Pearse 4 93 23.25 Faulkner 30 755 25.01 Vogler 33 865 26.21 Sinclair 17 470 - 27.64 Snooke ."4 . . 183 45.75. Strieker 1 57 . .57 Nourse 4 334 83.5