INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9711, 5 January 1895, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCH.

PRESS CRITICISMS.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph. -Copyright.

Melbourne, January 4. The Age makes no reference to the late test match beyond stating that in order to ensure the full strength of Australia in the third test match in Adelaide, beginning thi3 day week, A. E. Trott, J. Harry, and J. VVorrall have been invited to go over pending the final selection.

The Argus devotes a sub-leader to the subject, maintaining that in the Sydney match it may fairly be argued that though the Englishmen achieved a victory the Australians carried off the honours. In the match just fought on the Melbourne Cricket Ground the Englishmen won honestly by 94 runs. There is nothing remaining, it says, for the Australian players but the business of explaining their defeat, a matter wnich requires a good deal of explanation. Luck, says the Argus, is of course a disturbing element of great potency in cricket, but the figures in the late match seem to show that nerve, or want of nerve, counts for much even amongst famous and experienced players. No one c&n pretend that the inglorious total of 40 runs represents the contribution six players like Darling, Gregory, Lyons, Coningham, Jams, and Trumble might be expected to make at such a crisis in the cricketing fortunes of Australia. It may be doubted, indeed, whether either the Englishmen or the Australians have shown their true and highest batting form in the test match just played. In the great score of 586 made by the Australians in Sydney, three batsmen made 443, while the remaining seven only contributed 143. The bowling on both sides makes great scores possible, and we may reasonably expect to see very high figures reached in the remaining test matches. In the news columns of tho same paper, "Observer," the well-known cricket scribe, says it is now clear there is so little between the two teams that it must always be an interesting match when they meet. He further maintains that though the Australians rival the Englishmen in bowling, they suffer by comparison with the visitors in battinp. After luncheon yesterday, in replying to the health of the two teams, Stoddart expressed the view that the match had been won on its merits ; whilest Giffen expressed the desire that the rubber mirht be won by the best team, whioh he hoped they would excuse him saying was the Australian team. Adelaide, January 4. Tha Cricket Association is asking the Englishmen to allow the wicket tor the match here next week to be protected against the weather. . Moses will probably be included in the next Australian team. A. E. Trott, of Victoria, is a certainty, and Worrall and Harry, from the same colony, are also probable players. Coningham will be omitted. London, January 4. Commenting on the late < test match, the Standard ventures the opinion that Stoddart's performance in Australia almost equals that of Grace when he was at the zenith of his fame. The Daily News says the team has surpassed expectations.