CRICKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 8

CRICKET.

THE FOURTH TEST

AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS.

ENGLAND BEATEN BY A BETTER

SIDE

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

.:■■' (Received Feb. 17, 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 17. The Herald, says that the final day of the fourth test was. the poorest cricket of the series. The English attack was slack, as though, there was ao hope. .The Telegraph remarks that there is nothing.to say about; the concluding stages except that, while Gregory hit anything, Ryder played the sort of cricket that has driven people to the Kew or Callan Park lunatic asylums. There was no excuse for it. Australia had the game won, and could have ■talked, into the bowling.

Douglas stated that they were beaten thoroughly by-a better side. He did not agree with those who said that the luck ,-was against them, though he hoped, that.they would hold the bad! tighter when the Australians visited England. Hornibrook is to ,be recalled from New Zealand, and will probably be included in the fifth test with Mayne. Dfc -isprobable that sixteen players will Jour England. .