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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 2 December 1922, Page 3

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MAKVFFMONE TEAM (AiiHt’"a!ian A W.Z Cable Association.) ('.VI MOTOWN, Nov. 30. Mary idiotic, in the lirsi innings scored ‘Jl'J—,| npp NO, On it 36, Mann 14. Fender 4, Stevens 27, Kennedy 1, Gilignu 1, Macaulay, not out 13, Livesey. retire (damaged third finder) 1. Scclt look 4 for (Hi; Wilson 3 for 38. District in the second innings room! 44 Carr 20. Fender too!; 4 for 2 and Macaulay 3 for 10. Marylehono won hy an innings and ,140 runs. "'i'oncliliiie” writing in the New Zealand Free Lance this week makes some interesting comments on the possibles for the coming lest, matches against the Englishmen. lie .says: "That paragraph from Auckland 1 quoted last week about the New Zealand team set, me, thinking. Fast .season's form will largely guide the selectors in putting their teams on paper, and I fancy that a young player, to be given a hearing at all, must show exceptional form. Fp to the present no new star has arisen on the cricket lion’/,on this season, and tin' is not likely to do so in lime to he considered in the selection of the New Zealand team. Of (he players "Touehiine" sorts out Jiowntree, Sneddeit. AlhoU. . Smith, liidiileslon, ‘Hiunl and Shepherd are probably as certain as can well he. leaving 4 places to fill, one of whom must lu 1 a fast howler. These four may come from Sandman. Holland. Collins'. McLeod Garrard, M( Met it or Read. Tin- thing that- is going to decide the .selectors more than anv other is the finding of a decent fast, howler. \V. S. I'riee, Welling!on's stand by for many years, is a long way from his form this season, and 1 am doubtful whether he will gain a place in the Wellington team. IF M. McCirr. also has done nothing startling so far. and 1 have not noticed anything outstanding lo the credit of (F Dickinson, the promising Dunedin youngster. These are the only three with any real pintensions ns New Zealand's fast howlers, although IF Mead. the Canterbury medium-fast man. is a good fellow' to have on a side when he is in the humour, and M. Henderson, a Wellington left-hander, is coming to the forefront.

Of the .“low bowlers there iw a good variety. .11. Allcotl, the ex-. Marlborough and Hawke's Hay player, is proving a statement that was made to me that, given the opportunity in good company, he would make a favourable impression. He lias done that in Auckland during the last two seasons, and should be a certainly for .selection. S. (1, Smith, the ex-Noiihants amateur. .is a cricketer of parts, although not so dangerous a bowler as when he first settled in .Auckland. F, .AlcPeatn. the' ex-Canterbury man now in Dunedin, is a left-hand' bowler of class, although if Allcotf and Smith an; hoth selected it might he advisable to include a batsman in preferenee to him. r l nere are a lot of other • fellows with pretensions lo howling, but their hatting will gain Ihem inclusion on its own.

For the wicket keeper's nosit inn, l(. G. Rountree. ol Auckland, stands rigid nut on his own. and would du me in any company.

Ihe hailing will he on the strong side, and there are ninny players with sound claims for inclusion. Amongst the number are ,1. S. Hiddlesfon (Wellington), whose form this season is of a distanetly high class D. C. Collins (Wellington). the double Cambridge blue. who gives you. the impression when lie is in action that yon are watching a real cricketer; J. Shepherd fDunedin), one of the best batsmen in New Zealand last year; f!. C. Plant(Canterbury), a young player with a good variety of strokes and a promising future; N. C. Sneddon (.Auckland), a member of (he 1913 New Zealand team that toured Australia and still at Hie (op of his form ; M. Cane (Napier), given to me as a batsman nut of the ordinarv and one who would make his mark if given (be opportunity; and E. U. Neale (Nelson), who, has made an a.wful lot of runs in his lime, and. is a sound and enllinsiastic cricketer, And (.here are others, to wit. H. I-ambert, (be ex-\\ ellingfon plaver, who is now a resident of New Plymouth; C. Holland. W anganui’s champion howler, who has been a New Zealand representative before; H. .McLeod, a promising young Aucklander, whose balling last- season promised that, he would be shortly in the first flight of our cricketers; and C. Dacre, Hie Aucklander, who has not attained to (he high position lie promised us a 5 a schoolboy, when he made century scores practically every Saturday. AVlien the (cam is put on paper for the first test match against the Englishmen it will be found to consist of •smoothing like the following;'—D. C. Collins (captain), J. S. Hiddlostou, H. A!. McOirr. N. C. Sneddon. S, (1. Smith, H, AllcoM, IL G. Rountree, IL (1 Blunt, ,J. Shepherd, G. Dickinson and At. Cane, with E. K. Neale as [ tweli’-l b man.