CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 13

CRICKET

RAIN LIMITS PLAY. [by CABLE —PEESB ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. June 17, lla.ni.). LONDON, June 16. Rain curtailed play in county cricket. Results: Surrey, first, 52, second 200 (Nichols 6 for 70). Essex, first, 185, second 1 for 68. Essex won by nine wickets. Derby, first. 253 (Townsend 101, Bowes 5 for 66). Yorkshire,, first 112 (Mitchell 6 for 60). Followed on 1 for 1902. Derby won on the first innings.

Middlesex, first, 114. Lancashire, first 6 for 110. Match drawn. Sussex, first, 233 (Cook 95, Santail 5 for 59). Second, 109 (Mayer 7 for 51). Warwick, first 104, second 5 for 239 (Santail, not out 104). Warwick won by five wickets. Somerset, first, 169 (Freeman 6 for 60). Second, 123 (TOdd 4 for 26). Kent, first, 8 fbr 248 declared (Ashdown 132). Second, 4 fbr 47. Kent won by six wickets.. , Worcester, first, 206 (Creese 5 for 44). Hampshire, first, 4 for 207. Hampshire won on th.e, first innings. Gloucester, first, 313 (Neale, not put 97). Second 1 for 69 declared. Glamorgan, first, 182 (Sinfteld 5 for 68; Goddard 5 for 61). Second 103 (Sinfteld 7 for 58). Gloucester won by 97 runs. . . Leicester, first, 325 (Prentice 90, Bferry 106). .Second, 3 f0r.49. Oxford, first, 365 (Murray x Wood 104, Whitehouse not out 91). Match drawn. . Cambridge, first, (Bartlett 129, Brown 7 for 88). Second, .3 for 132. Free Foresters, first, 335 (Brown 81). Match drawn.

...Test trial: South, first .innings 353 (Tiirnbull 106). Match drawn. India, first innings, 124. Notts, first innings, 2 for 154 (Knowles not out 66). Match cirawn. ALLEN'S CAPTAINCY (Recd. June 17, 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. Critics agree that the test trial, ending in an honourable, but somewhat barren draw, did not reveal much to assist the selectors. To-day’s high light was Turnbull’s quick : footed, impressive innings. Allen; although not conspicuous in-his batting and bowling, revealed sound generalship, and his selection is announced for the captaincy in the first test against India. His performance therein will undoubtedly influence his chanceS of the captaincy for the Australian tour. HISTORIC OVER RECALLED. LONDON. June 7. A famous cricket ball has just been discovered in a rain-water spout at the Sheffield pavilion. It was the one used by Verity in the Yorkshire v. South Africans match at Sheffield last year when H. B. Cameron, the great South African batsman, Who has since died, hit him for three 4’s and three 6’s in an over.

The fifth ball he hit clean out of the ground, and it remained lost until now. It has been returned to the makers, Messrs Wisden, who are including it in their museum of bats and balls. Wood, the Yorkshire wicket-keeper; at the end of this historic over, said to Verity: “Don’t worry. You’ve got him in two minds —he doesn’t know whether to hit you for a 4 or a 6!” WOOLLEY’S WORLD ELEVEN. Harold Larwood, the Nottinghamshire fast bowler, is the only English cricketer now playing who has been selected for a World XI. in a book published recently—“ The King of Games,” by Frank Woolley.

Not even Don Bradman is in the list —an imposing one, that includes Trumper, Hobbs, “Ranji,” J. T. Tyldesley, Macartney, F. R. Foster Sidney Barnes, Colin Blythe, J. R. Mason (captain), and Oldfield, the Australian wicket-keeper, who is Woolley’s only other preference among present-day players. “I have not seen Bradman get scores after rain,” says Woolley, in explaining the omission, and the great Australian batsman ,is relegated to a second eleven of World Cricketers. So are Hammond and Gfrimmett, although in the series of thumbnail sketches that follow Woolley’s personal story Hammond is described as “the most destructive, devastating, masterful, smasher of our bowling now in the game.” The genial nature that reveals itself whenever Woolley bats for Kent —or England— is an especial characteristic of his remarks oan his great contemporaries. Mead, of Hampshire, for example, "is still only a kid’ of 49,” Hobbs’s one mistake is “not being born in Kent,” 'and, as for W. H. Ponsford, the Australian: "What a lot more runs this prolific run-getter would have made, to be su,re, if there was no leg-stump!” It is inevitable that one of Woolley’s temperament should have his regretful moments about the cricket of to-day, which, he thinks, "sometimes seems to lack a vital something that was coursing through its veins in its heyday.” Cricket to him, “has been loitering for some reasons on the downward path”—and he blames recent controversies. “Each successive ‘incident’ adds to the enemies of cricket.” Woolley expresses the wish “that the game will return with all possible speed to the place it held so proudly in the esteem of all who matter.”