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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1926, Page 11

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e THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN y PROGRAMME OF MATCHES. • RESULTS TO DATE. B May I.—Leicestershire, at Leicester. Match Drawn; play interfered wit by rain. Australia 336; Leicester 9 and 1 for 15. In the 1921 tour Aus r tralia won by an innings and 152 run —Australia« declaring with 7 wicket for 430; Leicester 136 and 142. j May s.—Essex, at Leyton. x Match drawn, abandoned owing t j .rail}. Australia declared with 9ou 3 for 538, Essex, 2 for 7. (1921—Aua f tralia -won by an innings and 75 runs f Australia 318; Essex 144 and 99.) t May 8. —v. Surrey, at the Oval. i Match drawn, interfered with b] i rain. Australia declared with 9 ou • for 385; second innings, 2 wickets fo: - 74, Surrey 265. (1921 —Australia woi by an innings and 55 runs. Aus tralia declared with 9 out for 357 Surrey 79 and 223.) • May 12. —Hampshire, at Southampton 1 Australia won by 10 wickets 1 Hampshire 152 and 248. Austratb.i ' 371 and 33 for no wickets. (1921 — Match drawn., Australia declared with 7 out for 70S, the highest score of the tour. Hampshire 370 and 135 for 5 wickets.) May 15.—M.C.C., at Lords. Match drawn. M.G.C. 199 and 83 for 5. wickets. Australia declared with 9 out for 383. (1921 —Australia won by 3 wickets. M.C.C. 284 and 176. Australia 191 and 271 for 7 wickets.) May 19.—Cambridge University, at Cambridge. Match drawn. Cambridge 212 and 81. Australia 245 and 17 for 2 wickets. (1921 —Australia won by an innings and 14 runs. Cambridge 220 and 128. Australia 362.) May 22.—Oxford University, at Oxford. Australia w r on by an innings and 13 runs. Oxford 131 and 177. Australia 321. (1921 —Drawn, Oxford 180 and 174 for 1 wicket. Australia 294.) May 26.—South of England, at Bristol. Match drawn, abandoned owing to rain. South of England 211. Australia 328 for 6 wickets. (1921. —Australia won by an innings and 46 runs. Australia 444. South of England 199 [and 199). May 29.—Middlesex, at Lords, j Match drawn. Australia 489 and 239 for 5 wickets. Middlesex 349. (1921 —Australia won ( by 8 wickets. Middlesex 111 and 90. Australia 171 and 32 for 2 wickets.) June 2. —North of England, at Birmingham. Match drawn, delayed through rain. North of England 239 and 77 for 1 wicket (declared). Australia 105 and 110 for 3j wickets. (No *mateh w r as played against North of England in 1921). June 5. —Yorkshire, art; Bradford. Match 'Lawn, abandoned owing to rain. Australia 177 and 3 for 243 (declared). Yorkshire 155 and 25 for 0 wickets. (1921 —Drawn. Australia 263 and 77 for 3 wickets. Yorkshire 224). *June 9? —Durham, at Sunderland. Australia won by an innings and 81 runs. Australia 322 for 3 . wickets (declared). Durham 125 and 116. (1921 —Australia won by 10 wickets, j Durham 168 and 121. Australia 267 I and 24 for 0 wickets). j June 12. —First-Test, against . Eng- ( land, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham j Match drawn, abandoned owing to! rain. England 32 for 0 wickets. (1921 I —Australian won by* 10 wickets. England 112 and 147. Australia 232 and j 30 for 0 wickets). j

REMAINING’ MATCHES. June 16.: —Yorkshire, at Sheffield. June 19.—Lancashire, at Manchester. *Juno 23.—Derbyshire, at Chesterfield. June 26.—Second Test, against England, at Lords. June 30.—Northants, at Northampton. July 3,—Notts, at Nottingham. *July 7. —Worcestershire, at Worcester. 1 July 10.—Third Test, against England, at Leeds. July 14.—Lancashire, at Liverpool. *July 17.—West of Scotland, at Glasgow. July 20. —Scotland, at Edinburgh. July 24.—Fourth Test, against England, at Manchester. July 28. —Surrey, at the Oval. July 31. —Glamorgan, at Cardiff. August 4.—Warwickshire, at Birmingham. August 7.—Gloucestershire, - at Cheltenham. August 14. —Fifth Test, against England, at the Oval. *August 18.—Leveson Gower’s XI, at Maidenhead. August 21. —Somerset, at, Taunton. August 25. —Kent, at Canterbury. August 28. —Sussex, at Brighton. September 1. —An England XI, at Folkestone. September 4. —Civil Service Association, at Chiswick. September B.—C, I. Thornton’s XI, at Scarborough. September 11.—North of England, at Blackpool. ■ * Two-day matches.

RECORDS OF PREVIOUS TOURS,

As the tom- of the Australian eleven progresses its results will naturally be compared with those of former teams, the records of which wore as follows: Year. Won. Lost. Drawn. Total. 1878 IS 7 12 37 1880 21 4 12 37 1882 23 4 11 38 ’ 1884 18 7 7 32 ISBG 9 8 22 39 i 1888 .19 14 7 40 i 1890 13 16 9 38 1893 18 10 8 36 1896 19 6 9 34 1899 16 3 16 35 • 1902 23 2 / 14 39 1905 16 3 19 38 1909- 13 4 22 39 1912 9 8 20 37 1919 13 4 15 32 1921 22 2 14 38 Totals 270 102 217 589 THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN A. W. CARR. The man selected to captain the English in the tost matches, A. W. Carr, is an unknown quantity out here, though his captaincy of Notts is highly spoken of in official quarters in England. Born on May 21, 1894, he is a few months older than Gilligan, and two years younger than Fender. He must not be confused with D. W. Carr (Kent), who, as a "bosie” bowler, played in the last test of the 1909 series--the match,in which Warren Bardslcy made his two separate centuries. Arthur W. Carr is a batsman of high-class ability, who brought with him into county cricket the habit of making big scores contracted in his school days at Sherbourne. He is an aggressive, harddriving right-hander, with a rapidly improving record in first-c’ cricket during recent seasons. In. 1922, for instance, ho made four centuries, and | four again in 1923, five in 1924, and j seven in 1925, wdth a highest score of •! 206, an aggregate of 2338 runs, and j an average of 55.38 per innings. It i is not so much his results, excellent ! as they are, as the aggressive, determined manner of their making that marks him out ns a batting potentiality in test cricket, and he is good j also in the field. j THE SECOND TEST { I PREPARATIONS AT LORDS. j With the second test match (at Lord’s) only a few weeks off, work- j men who have been engaged in re- j building the grandstand and erecting i new cantilever stands at the nursery end of the ground since the end of Oe- j tober are still in possession. j The roof of the grand stand is not j yet completed, and much work has to be done in other directions. Night and j day gangs, however, continued work j during the holiday without intefrup- j tion. t

When complete, the new stand will provide additional, accommodation for 3000 people, and will cost nearly £50,000. The ground, it was stated, had never been in better condition, and during the Easter week-end 'was given its first preparation of the season.

The 1200 reserved seat tickets at £1 Is each for the test match at Lords on July 10, .12, and 13 were nearly all sold by Easter. The applications for these tickets came from all parts of Great Britain and ••Ireland. Since the last visit of the Australians the accommodation at the county ground at Headlingley has been improved, and there-‘are now seats for 30,000 ’spectators,, while there is also standing robip for a-further 5000.

Meanwhile,' the- membership of the Yorkshire country club has reached 7500, and is still increasing.