ENGLAND'S NEW HOPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19060, 3 July 1925, Page 9

ENGLAND'S NEW HOPE.

RISING YOUNG CRICKETER. NEPHEW OF RANJITSINHJI. LONDON. June 20. The Evening Standard, calling attention to the decision of the Australian Cricket Board of Control to have trial matches in Sydney and Melbourne next December, to assist the selectors of the team to tour England in 1926, declares that Australian leaders of cricket never sleep. To them life is a series of tests with intervals of thought. England, on the contrary, says tho paper, leaves its plans to the last minute. So far as the next series of tests is concerned, no trial games have been set: down for 1925 or 1926, and no arrangements have been made to create an AllEngland team, which, would gain cooperative experience. " McDonald is the finest living fyst bowler. There has been none of his class, or possessing such an easy delivery, since Richardson, Lockw6od and Ernest Jones,'* say 3 Gilbert Jessop, a former international player himself, in an article in the Evening News. Ho considers that the inclusion of McDonald in tho Players' team against tho Gentlemen Is a remote possibility, and would be an unsound policy in view of the necessity for trying out home talent before the next tests, in which Australia, if it desired, could include McDonald. Duleepsinhji, in tho second innings of Cambridge University to-day against Surrey scored 98. His contribution in the first innings was 51. This nephew of Ranji is regarded as the most brilliant young batsman in England, and is considered certain to be chosen for tho Gentlemen against tho Players. Dawson, also of, Cambridge, was the top scorer in the second innings with 125. Cambridge mado 426 for four wickets, a fourth innings total which has been exceeded in a first-class match in England only three times. K. S. Duleepsinhji is a nephew of the Maharajah of Nawanagar, who, as Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, made cricket history in the nineties. Duleepsinhji before he went to Cambridge, was at Cheltenham College, and his most successful season was 1923, in which he leaded the averages with 52.36. During last season, playing for a strong M.C.C. team, which included Hendren and Hearne, "ho scored 120 and 43. without giving a chance, against Cambridge University. Naturally, when he went to Cambridge this year, his advent at cricket was eagerly awaited. Ho did not disappoint, either, as in the Freshmen's match this season, in which tho stars from the public schools are tried, his batting dwarfed all else in the game, as ho scored 99 and 40 not out, when most of his companions were helpless. Duleepsinhji, like Ranji of old, is a capital field, and bowls slows with fair success, Indeed, he headed the Cheltenham averages in 1923 with 50 wickets at 13.66 rnns each. 'Like Ranji, again, he has a fine variety of strokes, is adept at forcing a ball to tho on, and cuts well. His defence, which used to be weak, is improving. Early this season, when wickets favoured bowlers, he scored B—4o (the side onlv mado 61) against Sussex, and o—sl in tho nest match against Lancashire