CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12905, 4 July 1936, Page 11

CRICKET

ENGLAND’S NEW FIND

RAPID SCORING BATSMAN

Harold 'Gimblett, a farmer’s «5on b with .a batting average ■of more than 200 this season, and. acclaimed as “England’s greatest cricket find since Hni-mmondi and the natural successor to Hobbs,” -burst into- county cricket sensationally last year by winning, in this first match, Sir Walter Lawrence’s, t £IOO and trophy for the fastest 'can-' 'tury.pf, ,the season, in England. , I Gimblett. played, that tornado. i»inings. for Somerset against Essex, on May IS, 1935. It totalled 123, and he .raced to 100 im63 mimites. - In hi,**: century the .young .untried player * equal led the time,.of Frank W oojiey, '.wild won the prize for the fastest ■loo,in 1934. , ■ :. '

What was merely an exceptional feat by one of the world’s greatest batsmen was almost a miracle on the part of an untried l colt, facing professional bowling for the first time. Gimblett did not sustain his initial success last season, however, finishing with, thesis figures for Somerset Thirty innings (two not outs), IS2 runs ; highest score, 123; .average 17.21.

Seven other Somerset batsmen had better averages. Discovered by the former left-hand Tost bowler, Jack While, himself a farmer, Gimblett is now regarded as a Test probability. Following a: failure agamst Surrey at the Oval, he retrieved hV, average with an 'innings of 106- before lunch aga ins' North ants, the sco "e including six sixers. .So ;i'a,r this -season ho has hit up 103 against India, and 93 and 160 not out against Lancashire. McCABE A SPORTSMAN Herbert Sutcliffe, lb; Yorkshire •and English Eleven batsman, has a great opinion of Stanley McCabe. In his book “For England and Yorkshire,” he describes McCabe as a player of quite exceptional ability, whose carefree cricket and great sportsmanship have made him one of flic most popular players in England and Australia. “We regard him as ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ and he certainly was a thorn in the side of our attackers in the first three Tests,” he wrote. “In my opinion McCabe, lias never keen given credit for the excellence of his work in tho last scries ....

“I have a story to toll of his great sportsmanship. In the final game in England, at Scarborough, I played a hall from McCabe hard enough, 1 thought, for three runs. The shot was to square I\g and it happened that the umpire was in the way. The ball struck him on tho loot and war deflected to Eliding. who was, fielding four or five .yards toward mid-w.ckot. It was three or four yards down the wicket "when I realised the danger and I sent Wyatt, my partner, back. “Eliding returned tho hall easily to McCabe, .who could have run Wyatt out by several yards, but Mc-Cabe never bothered. Making.no show ol the fact that he was allowing Wyatt to escape, he took the bail, turned round, and walked back to deliver, the next hall.’’ USED TIIS UR Ai NS Wh:rover cricketers foregather one is sure to hear a story of Hugh Trumble, now secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club. and. one of the finest howlers who ever played for Australia. No one had greater admiration for the sublcty of Trumble than 13:11 Howell, father of the present Sheffield Shield player. On an English wicket that was “doing a hit” Howell was having trouble in dismissing a lending English', amateur. He was breaking about tlv.ee inches, yet was being played confidently. Then Trumble was given the hall and almost immediately howled the man. Discussing the match afterwards with Jack \\ nrralt, llowcll said, “You know Jlnghic is a marvel. Here was- I howling a-> well ns I have over done,: and yet when Unglue comc:i Oil ho bowls him with a straight ball.” “How do you account for that?” said Jack. Howell’s answer was .to touch'his h a'. ! --a:i eloquent gesture that was a tribute to the fact that Trumble had v.s:d his brains. WHO WILL BE CAPTAIN? Australian cricketers are keenly interested in the -efforts of English authorities to find a captain for the team that will come to Australia .af Ihe end of this. year. “Gubby”,. Allen is tlic.man most favoured at the .mo--, meat, and he..was made captain, of the ,English, team in the first Test against,the Indians. , “Gubby” was in the last Test .team that visited. Au.stralia, and, he was, p'c-'sonally. most popular. , Ho is a Sydney native who went to England at an early ago. A ■fast, howler and. a- reliable batsman, lie liad n. fair measure, of success and his cheery smile and general friendliness had their appeal. . Boh Wyatt, i'si apothar in thrj. running but Wyatt lias, had a great run of “outs” while leading England. Wyatt was harder to. know than Allen. He had a great habit of stealing away by himself, but to those who had the opportunity of knowing him he proved a charming companion. “A very .sound chap,” was one comment. NINE BALLS—SI RUNS

A batsman with a black, bushy moustache, ~playing in a, match at Jamaica,. hit each of the first nine bails he received for,six. This exer r . tion under a tcop'cal sun caused perspiration. to pour off his, face, and .off came the big, black, bushy moustache. Herbert Sutcliffe, the Engl'Sh. batsman, wa-.r revcaied to the astonished fielding .side. The incident (says the. Manchester Guardian) happened when the Ist Battalion, the Sherwood F'orestors, stationed in, Jamaica, was holding a. garrison trial match.. The .officers of the,garrison opposed a team of warrant officers ,ancl and Sutcliffe was borrowed from tire Yorkshire touring .side for the day by the warrant, officers; -.and' sergeants., Sutcliffe, .served in on,c of tile battalions ■of tho Sherwood .Foresters, during, the Great War.

, DRASTIC TREATMENT

CRICKETER. SENT HOME

- 'The sending homo of Arna-r Nath., the Indian cricketer, for ‘disciplinary reasons,” is the first- time on,, record that this has happened with an international. touring team hv England, says a. Sydney writer. It is;the most drastic treatment that could lie handed out to any member of a- sporting team on tour.

Amar Nath was on his first visitto England. He is a wicket-keeper, batsman and howler. In one of the Teats against Jardino’s team he made ‘llß at Bombay. The crowds that day bedecked hint with garlands of fiow'cps. Hei, is- described as a powerful off driver and . a, fast scorer.

Whether the management has done right in this drastic action may be open to question, .although Australians are in no position to discuss it seriously. Amur Nath had done well on the toui‘. Some of his howling cfI'brto were four for. 42, four for 22 and six; for'29, and he made 130 agn-i-n’st Essex. .