LIMIT ON CRICKET MATCHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 16

LIMIT ON CRICKET MATCHES

AUSTRALIA TEAM'S TOUR. A former Sydney man, now living in Melbourne, writing to a Sydney paper anent cricket there, says: "The timelimit in the Sheffield Snield has proved a blessing. It has put an end to wearisome batting by which we were afflicted ... I wish you could have seen Woodfull going for the runs in the second innings of Victoria against New South Wales. It was real cricket by a real cricketer. His tactics wore crowned with brilliant success. Limiting the matches is the best thing the authorities have done for years." But for the Australian team leaving for New Zealand in February, this would have been a very good season for Victoria to have player! the J. V. Saunders match—Victoria v. The Rest of Australia, on the Melbourne ground, says a Sydney writer. The Rest this season would be well balanced if all those who have played in the Sheffield Shield were available. Regarding the forthcoming tour of the Australian team through New Zealand, an Australian writer says: "If the English coaches now in New Zealand be included in the Dominion elevens for the test matches the cricket should be of very great interest to supporters of the game over there. The English coaches will have left New Zealand bv the time the test matches come round, but in any case it is hardly likely any of them would have been included in the New Zealand teams. Karl Schneider, the South Australian cricketer, who is to tour the Dominion with the Australian team shortly, has scored three centuries in Sheffield Shield matches this season. Batting left-hand, he has a sound straight bat in defence, and good shots on both sides of the wicket. Being so short, he has to make greater use of his feet in getting to the ball than the average batsman. By this means he generally looks quite at homo to the bowling. He should return from Now Zealand a still better batsman. Mr. W. C. Bull, who will manage the Australian team to New Zealana, has never been across the Tasman with a team. He has been hon. secretary of the Balmain Club in Sydney for many years, its representative on the New South Wales Cricket Association, a member of the executive committes, and a member of the Board of Control. It will be admirable experience for on J holding office as he does.