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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 7

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COMMENT ON ENGLISH TEAM. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 2. 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 1. Mr. Sydney Pardon says that the selectors have provided the best possible available team on form for Australia. He considers sixteen too many, and may give rise to discontent. At least tour will feel like passengers. In fielding the- team is 70 per cent, superior to the 1920 team. “The problem troubling us is the eight-ball over. Only Freeman and Gibson are experienced in its use. • It will be a weird forbidding tiling to Tate and Gilhgan. Referring to the bowling, he says : “There is probably too great a leavening of slow bowling. The team lacks one distinctive medium pacer. Hopes are centred in Gibson, it he is able to regain the pace lost TVfT» i °P eratlon for appendicitis.” Mr. Pardon considers Kilner will prove as deadly as Rhodes on a sticky Australian wicket, and adds: “There is much criticism concerning the inclusion of Doiiglas on account of his age, but he has had varied experiences ,n Australia, Much comment Ks L tr iSS1 ° n °/ Fc T ler and Howell tW 5 l a ,'; osue< ' - , Tt is considered h i^of 1 +b eb °” e j laS 1)00,1 not onniinduil ot the unpleasant incidents connected with Fender’s cables on the last tour while. Howell, who is purely a bowler, would have been a pas«e , *e? unless he could have been relied upon to retain his form and take at ]e P ast Cable s WlCketS * matoh --*ydney Sim A DRAWN MATCH. Received Aug. 2, 11.55 a . m> mi .p,. . LONDON, Aug. I. lie Africans in their second innings against Sussex made 217 for W tickets, and then declared. Sussex in their second innings made % for six wickots (Hands three for 9). The match was drawn. ' 11 fout imI Tn b f ttwl and hit iJ tours Tate was sparingly used 14 JKfTo 12 n,ns ‘ took three vukets for 43 runs. Hands took three viekets with 11 balls. Aus.-N.Z. Cable