ANOTHER SAMPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 9

ANOTHER SAMPLE

FORCING THE PACE

(By "Not Out.")

It was said of the New Zealanders early on their present tour that wherever they might go this summer in England there youth would be also— .youth of the dashing, slashing kind that makes every game a glory and a gamble. A splendid illustration of this has been afforded in the Durham match, and the New Zealand cricketers have registered a remarkably fine performance in winning a two-day match by the wide margin of ten wickets. There is much that is distinctly pleasing about tho effort, the bowling successes of M. Henderson and W. Cunningham being very gratifying. Durham, as stated yesterday, was the champion minor county last year.

Some time ago, when Hie bowling performances of the New Zealanders were under review, the opinion was expressed by the writer that Henderson would possibly liave the same bad luck as that which he had experienced in club and representative cricket in New Zealand—poor measure of support from the field. Full details of the early matches, now to hand, show that the JVellingtgn

left-hander's figures would have been much better if chances off his bowling had been accepted. "The Times" (London) in comment on performances at the outset of the tour, says: "Henderson, medium left-hand, who swings the ball away, was a little unlucky." It is also recorded in various reports of the iI.CC. match that Titchmarsh, who mado 171, was missed off Henderson when he had made only a single. Henderson and the other bowlers are now evidently receiving much better support from the field.

To-day the New Zealanders commence a two-day match with Northumberland at Newcastle-on-»Tyne. This minor county had a bad run last season, but it went through the three previous seasons with the loss of, only, a single match. It was anticipated that the county would have the material this season to make a decided step forward from the position of nineteenth which it occupied last year.