CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17652, 13 December 1920, Page 7

CRICKET.

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN

F.\i 1.1 SlON" ' >F CARTER

T l » fact that Carter las been omitted from the Australian XL for the first test match ]-is caused scene comment in Auckland, and r''rrespo!'.oientr, are asking for an eiplana-t'.-.ri The reason pi von when Carter was omitted from the New South Wales team was that W. A. Olrifield. of the A.I.F. tAo-o, was considered Carter's equal behind '.p "tumps and a much better bat. "There is nothing al>snrd shout the "on ot "\V. A Oldfieid instead of H. Carter," n'; ? a Sydney writer. "The latter has done niignif-oent work in the tests and is still pc-cd enough to do it with either gloves or hat. But i/reat as ho has been, and is, no man who is a close observer of form and e-iiity and who is also independent in his idjri.ieu*. can say wi'h any reason that the select:on of Oldfieid is absurd. Oldfieid has won tho right to a. trial against the EngLinmen. -, '. on sentiment or any such ft t.?:.' r«-/i-.,.n, but on. ability. It is no ref>cti< ;: i n Carter to «ay so, either, as. until '.i*> < ■">rr. , rg 'f Oldfieid he stood by himself, »bH. OiriSeld excepted, still stands by him- <-" f amonr/ \r.Btrai:an \\ eket-keepers v>'e have f-.*n ::, the i ß «t few years."