OTAGO CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 17227, 17 December 1919, Page 7

OTAGO CRICKET.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In answer to Mr Stevens’s letter, I would like to point cut that past players have proved fatal fox Otago before to-day. Wo have better players than Siedeborg standing down. Fisher and Downes are on form more entitled to a place, and are more reliable on wet wickets. Wo want to encourage the young players. Could Crawford’s colts hate done worse than the Otago team the year thev were premiers? If not that year, the following year,'had they; been-kept together, thev would have made a big, bid for the shield'. His , experience with the best team in Dunedin on paper was little use against the second-rate bowling of Grange, which wo heard so much of.—l am, etc., J. A. Browh. December 16. TO TJIB EDITOR. Sir, —I quite agree with your •correepondont, I’. V. Stevens, concerning feigdebsr'g’s fitness to be picked to practice with a -prospective Otago team. In my opinion the form shown by iSiedeberg. this year and last year, ia all departments of tiie game entitles him to be the first man selected. Otago will require her very best team to have a chance against the side Wellington is sending down, and as Siedqberg lias represented .the province vefy creditably in' the past, I sea no reason why he should not do so again. I know the selectors to be- fair-minded men, but in ignoring .Siedeborg they are makind a grelt error in judgment,—l' am, etc., ' Cricketer.