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Grey River Argus, 11 August 1925, Page 6

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NEW ZEALAND TEAM S AUSTRALIAN TOUR. MELBOIRNE August 10. Tentative dates drawn up by the Cricket Control Board for the New Zealand team's tour of Australia are:—November 28th and 30th versus Northern Districts, at Newcastle; December 4,5, and 7, versus Queensland, at Brisbane; December 11 and 12, versus Goulburn at Goulburn December 15 and 16 venus Wagga at Wagga; December 18 19 and 21, versus Victoria at Melbourne; December 26, 28, and 29. ENGLISH MATCHES. LONDON, August 8. Hampshire beat Somerset, at (Ticket by ten wickets. Mead made 80, iol out. Kent in the first innings made 319 for 8 wickets against Sussex and declared. Hardinge made 83, and M oclley 118. Sussex in the first innings made 196. (Watson 53), Marriott taking 5 for 64. Ip. the second Stiss.-x scored 136 (Freeman taking 5 for 53). Kent won by an innngs and 17 runs. Essex playing Lancashire made fB. in the first innings. Sibbles took 3 for 17, and Watson 4 for 26. Es-ex’s second innings realised 184 fjr «. Lancashire in the first made 203 'or 7, declared. Sharp scored 58 not out. Eastman took 4 for 45. Ihe game w-M drawn. For Gloucester against Middlesex Parker took 6 for 120, the game tang drawn. For Warwick, against Glamorgan, Partridge took 5 for 56, and tor Glamorgan Ryan took 5 for 72. Warwick won For Deiby, against Northants, Morton took 5 for 89, the game being drawn Rain generally interfered with play. THE AVERAGES. LONDON, August 10 The leading averages are:— Batting-.—Hobbs 2202 runs, average 66.81 runs per innings; Hendren 1955 runs, 65.16; Carr 1,44, 62.28; Holmes' 1803, 60.10; Sandham. 1763, 56.87; Ha’lows, 1751. 56.58. Bowling—Parker 169 wickets average 13.79 runs per wioket: Tate 171 wickets- 13.81; Tydleslev 120, 14 - 98 : Macaulay, 119, 15.25 ; Kilner, 100, 15.77. MacDonald is eighteenth with 155 wickets, averaging 19.53.