AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

Cottar, Carter, and Catchti.' Wicket-kocper Carter has put up a great record of qitchcs during tlio first half of the season. Playing in five matches, Ilia bug amounts to il caught and ono stumped. After standing out of tho New South Wales v. Queensland fixture, lie opened liis firstnilass season in tho New South Wales v.'England engagement by catching Rhodes off Hordorn and Hearno and Mead off Cotter. In tho first Test, second innings, ho liold Hobbs off Cotter. He did not play for tho Stat« against South Australia, but against Victoria on the Melbourno Ground, he gathered them wholesale in this order Caught Soitz and Mathews off Cotter, stumped Carkcek off Macartney, caught Seitz off Cotter, Kortlaug, off Emery, Armstrong and Kylo off Cotter. In tho second Test ho held Jlobbs, ITearne, and Rhodes off Cotter and Gunn off Whitty. Tho Carter-Cottor combine, therefore, has, up to date, accounted for 11 wickets—a whole innings and one over. A Word from Old "Jack" Worrall, Discussing the rooent match between the Victoria and New South Wales colts, .T. Worrall has tho following in tlio Melbourne "Age":— There can bo no reasonable doubt that the governing bodies of oricket in Melbourne and Sydney have ptruek the right note in fostering tlio rising talent, for these contests throw tho lads on their own resources and impart" nerve, judgment, and experience. The play and knowledge displayed by tho Melbourne colts in the match just concluded is of particular interest to oricket lovers . in Victoria, for it proved conclusively that not only can the boys play an uphill game ttfith (frim determination, but also that in ability and knowledge they are practically equal to 'tlio pick of the Sydney boys, with age and experience thrown in.' So tlio outlook is encouraging. It is to be hoped that the ooining cricketers will, bo able to hold their own, at least against New South Wales. Such a happy consummation is alxiut due, for all cricket lovers and enthusiasts in Victoria are hopefully looking forward ■ to the day when their own Ixdoved State will not onlv be strong enough to get back somo of its own against New South .Wales, but that we mil have more than two men of the necessary calibre in future Australian elevens.