CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 July 1927, Page 12

CRICKET

NEW ZEALAND TOUR. THE EAST COUNTIES TEAM. Some particulars regarding the members of the team over which New Zealand scored a good win will probably be of interest. The figures show that several of the team are good performers with bat and ball. Titchmarsh headed the Hertfordshire batting averages, scoring 890 for 17 innings, an average of 02.35, distinctly creditable figures. He is probably the amateur who was out in New Zealand with Maclaren’s team.

Grimsdell also plays with the same county and was well up iu the last year’s averages. Burton also is from the same team and took 07 wickets in .1927 at 21.8 apiece, besides getting fair battingfigures. * Carnegie-Brown is a Cambridgeshire man who was easily at the top of the batting for the season, 504 runs, 12 innings, average 47 (highest score 137). Covell is a team mate of Browfi and was their best bowler for the season.

Erearson was top of Lincolnshire in batting—24 innings, 050 runs, 28.20 average—and was easily the best of the county batsmen. Hazelton, of Buckingham, stood well in the bowling figures, but did little with the bat. He had already played against the tourists. In connection with the second-class counties, it is worthy of mention that Meyer, the Cambridge “Blue,” played for a time with Hertfordshire, but after four matches he left for India, another of the many fine players England lost to the overseas lands of the Empire. Another name appearing in the sec-ond-class averages is that of J. T. Tyklcsley, once an English international of high renown.

S. F. Barnes is another famous name, a cricketer now playing with Staffordshire. He annexed 76 wickets and had a fair batting average. His name recalls great bowling feats with the Englishmen (Warner’s team) in 1911-12 in Australia, when he played for Staffordshire. Writing of him Wisden said that “finer bowling on the hard true wickets he had never seen.” In the test matches he took 34 wickets —more than any other (F. Foster was two below him), and in all matches 59 wickets. He and Foster practically decided the second, third, fourth and fifth tests. FUTURE FIXTURES FOR N.Z.

The other two matches set down for (his week-end and next mid-week, Civil Service and The Army, are likely to be fairly good teams, but New Zealand should score wins. The Army, if they can get their best, should be a hard nut to crack.