NEW ZEALAND ELEVEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND ELEVEN.

MATCH WITH LANCASHIRE. LEADING COUNTY'S STRENGTH. The New Zealand cricketers were to have commenced a three days' match with Lancashire at Manchester yesterday. Lancashire last season deposed Yorkshire from the position of county champions, a position that the latter county had held for four years in succession. It was the first time since 1904 that Lancashire had held the premier position. They bid fair to repeat their success this season Their match against Nottinghamshire, which was to have finished on Tuesday, will play an important part in deciding which of these two counties is to win the championship. During last season Lancashire played 36 first-class matches. They won 17, lost four, and drew in 15. Lancashire fell somewhat easy victims to the Australians, . being defeated, by an innings and 77 runs. They could only obtain totals of 149 and 148, against the visitors' score of 374. Lancashire's success in the county championship last year was the more* remarkable because it could be argued that the side was not as strong in bowling as in 1925. Parkin ceased to play for Lancashire after the fourteenth match, and he has always been a 100 wickets bowler. R. Tyldesley, although consistently steady, rarely made the ball come from the pitch with his old keenness. It was the ex-Australian, Macdonald, more than any other player in the eleven who won matches for Lancashire. The batting was always reliable. _ E. Tyldesley, Makepeace and Hallows all shone as batsmen, and Tyldesley had a wonderful summer. In nine innings from June 26 he scored 1128 runs, with an average of 141. He scored seven centuries in successive matches, and four in successive innings. The young players, Iddon, Sibbles and Woolley, imparted substance to the innings at its latter end, and Macdonald frequently came to light when runs were needed. Duckworth had many brilliant days behind the wicket, and many consider him the logical successor of Strudwick. *. E. Tyldesley headed the batting averages of the team with an average of 62.90. Parkin, with 39 wickets in his few games, headed the bowling averages, his average being 16.15. The man who really headed the bowling averages was R. Tyldesley, who bowled throughout the season to take 128 wickets at an average cost of 16.86 Macdonald took 175 wickets at a cost of 20.23 runs apiec*

WIN AGAINST DERBY.

VISITORS HIGHLY PRAISED. COUNTY A STRONG TEAM. Sun. LONDON. Aug. 16. The Evening Standard says the success of the New Zealand cricketers agaimrt Derbyshire should settle the questioS whether the visiting team has .come up to expectations. It was remarked at the time that Sussex did not play Tate and Worcestershire did not play Root against the New Zealanders. and in consequence grumblers requested the Marvlcbone Cricket Club to suggest to the other counties the fairness of selecting their strongest sides, but the club did not listen to the suggestion. It is impossible, says the Standard, to disparage the overwhelming defeat of Derbyshire, which is at present one of the best of the county sides. Their position in the championship contest is the outstanding feature of the season.