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CRICKET

WEEK-END RESULTS. Press Association— By Telegraph—CopyrightLONDON, August 18. Fonder, Woolley, and Astill completed 1.000 runs and ICO wickets' this week. Kent 351 heat Notts 120 and 162. Collins took six wickets for 18 runs and ten for 65. Sussex 541 and one for 44 beat Lancashire 122 and 261. Yorkshire 266 and five for 144 (declared) drew with Middlesex 170 and two for 85. YORKSHIRE IN THE LEAD.

Friday’s results leave the cricket championship in -in exciting position. Yorkshire is .still in the lead with a percentage of 73.07. Surrey (71.42) and Notts (69.16) are tho only counties with any chance of winning. Notts seems hardly likely to make up its leeway, so to-day’s match (Surrey v. Yorkshire, at the Oval) will , probably prove tho deciding game. Collins’s feat of taking sixteen _ wickets was a great performance, though it us not a .record, as twelve bowlers have previously taken ' seventeen in first-class matches. —A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, August 19. (Received August 21, at 10.20 a.m.) Surrey made 315 for six wickets against Yorkshire (Sandham 53, Shepherd 62, Ducat 49, Hobbs 45). TOURING TEAMS. LONDON, August 19. The Marylebone sub-committee announces that MacLaren’s team for Australia and New Zealand includes Calfhorp, Geoffrey, Wilson, Chapman, Lowry (Cambridge, *a son of the owner of Desert Gold), Titchmarch. and M'Lean (Worcestershire) ; and that Freeman, A. C. Wilkinson, and R. St. L. Fowler have subject to obtaining the military leave. G H Gibson (Cambridge), who is now in South America, has been invited, but has not replied- If he refuses, D. F. Brand will be invited. Hillwood (Cambridge) and Colonel Hartley have also been invited. The team leave on September 50. The following will tour South Africa: —Mann (captain), Carr, A. Gilligan,_ Fender, Japp, Stevens, Woolley, Livsey, Brown, Mead, Kennedy, Russell. The following wore invited, but refused: Sandham, Macauley, Hobbs, Parkin. Mr H. D. Swan accompanies the team as manager. Mr J. F. Peake, lion, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, who is on a business visit to Dunedin, informs "Onlooker” that the Marylebone Club has granted exceptionally favorable terms for tho tour to tho New Zealand Cricket Council. The M.C.C. allows the Now Zealand Cricket Council 75 per cent, of gross takings of the games in Australia. It is also nutting up half tho passage money for (he team, which will be refunded, and of tho profits (if any). The M.C.C. uko agrees to stand half tho loss on the tour (if any). Tho first match will probably bo played against Western Australia at Perth, with games against South Australia (Adelaide', Victoria (Melbourne), and hew South Wales (Sydney) to follow. Iho team should reach Now Zealand about the first week of December.

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Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4

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CRICKET Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4

CRICKET Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4