HERE AND THERE Team to Play Country

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 63, 8 December 1936, Page 16

HERE AND THERE Team to Play Country

(By

The Watchman.)

A guess at the Wellington team to play Country on December 18 and 19 is. E. W. Tindill, W. Dustin E. G. McLeod, J. R. Lamason,. J. A. R. Blandford, J. Ell S. Ward, W. Tricklebank, C. Parsloe, B. Griffiths and E. D. Blundell. This will mean the omission from the chosen to practice of E. Mallard, D. S. Wilson, W. Rainbird and E. King.

♦ ♦ * Hawke’s Bay’s huge score of 514 for six against Poverty Bay in a Hawke Cup elimination match served to show that M. A. O’Brien, who played for Wellington last season, is again in good form. He made 165, helping to add 296 with Harold Reaney, who has also played for Wellington. The foundation for this big score however, was laid, by B. Mahoney, D. A. Rees and A. R. Biggar, the first three batsmen, who subdued the bowling so that the following players hit it everywhere.

** * . H. B. Massey, a former Wellington representative. performed with success in the Hawke Cup preliminary match Wairarapa v. Rangitikei. He made 44 and took five for 12 and five for 55. Another player who had a successful match wqs W. Peterson, in the winter a very successful wing three-quarter in the Wairarapa Rugby representative team. He made 50 and 41 for Wairarapa. The game was played at Marton.

» * ♦ After the first cricket Test mateh at Brisbane the English team will go to Ipswich to play a match against a Queensland country side on December 12 and 14 The second‘Test match begins at Sydney on December 18, and the third is set down for Melbourne, starting on January 1.

Neither Auckland nor Wellington ericketers have had much chance to find their

best form this year, because ram has curtailed play on several Saturdays. In filing ton the position is aggravated because the start of the season, as usual, was later than in most other centres, Jrom the viewpoint of match play, Canterbury players have had the best run this season.

L. E. Riley, former Canterbury and Wellington representative slow left-hand bowler, took five wickets for 46 runs m a recent club game in Dunedin. He has been picked to practise with the players in the running for selection in the Otago Plunket Shield team, but one Dunedin report says he may shortly leave that city for Southland.

♦ ♦ ♦ T. C. Lowry, the former Wellington and New Zealand captain, is not included in the players to practise for selection in the Wellington team. That, however, does not necessarily mean that he will not be chosen for Plunket Shield games if he recovers form. So far bis batting has been that of a man just slightly out of touch, and one big score would probably put him on the right road again. It would be useless, however, to pick him to practise with the other potential representatives. As die lives near Taihape. he could not attend net practice in Wellington. * * *

Victor Richardson, popular leader of an Australian team in New Zealand and captain of the side which toured South Africa last summer, is nearing the record of Sheffield Shield aggregates. His score of 38 for South Australia against Victoria took his total just past Alan Kippax’s at 6130. He is now second to Clem Hill, the South Australian lefthander. whose record of 6274 has stood for many years.