AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18002, 30 January 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

VICTORIANS TAKE NO RISKS.

344 FOR NINE WICKETS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.50 p.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 27.

The weather was fine and the wicket good when the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wahis and Victoria was resumed. The first innings scores at the close of play oh Friday were:—Victoria 265, New South Wales 267. Victoria continuing their second innings, scored 344 for the loss of uine wickets. O'Keefe. made 79, Ryder 95, Hartkopft 30, Ransford 34, and Mayno 27. Play was slow and dull, not one of the batsmen taking the slightest risk. Ryder occupied 206 minutes to compile his score.

MR. ARMSTRONG RETIRES.

COMMERCIAL APPOINTMENT. A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE. Jan. 27.

Mr. W. W. Armstrong, the captain of the last Australian test team, has accepted an- appointment as special representative in Australia of a Scottish distiller. Ho has resigned the secretaryship of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and is retiring from first-class cricket. He will, however, continue, to play in the club's pennant matches.

A SORE MEMORY. KENT AND THE AUSTRALIANS Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.50 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 27.

Tl\e committee of the Kent County Cricket Club in 'its annual report thus refors to the match against the Australians at Canterbury in August last:—"The committee takes this its only opportunity of offering the spectators of the Canterbury match its appreciation of the dignified attitude they maintained notwithstanding the irritation they must have suffered through Mr. Armstrong's extraordinary tactics. If Kent is not worth beating she is not worth playing, but past results against the Australians show an even number'of wins for each side. This being a rubber match there was a special reason for playing for a finish. Apart from that, Kent alwajs plays for a finish, and takes the risk of, and does not dread,'defeat."

The match between the Australians and Kent, played at Canterbury in August last, was drawn, the scores being: Australians, first innings, 676, second innings, 119 for four wickets; Kent, first innings, 237. Armstrong's failure to declare in the first innings was adversely criticised at the time.