CRICKET IN ENGLAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11294, 21 August 1922, Page 5

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

THE COUNTY COMPETITION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reoeived August 20, 6.5 p-m.) LONDON, August 18. In the county cricket competition, Kent, 351, heat Nottingham, 120 and 162. Collins took six wickets for 18 and ten for 65. Sussex, 341 and 44 for one wicket, beat Lancashire. 122 and 261. Fender, Woolley and Astall all completed 1000 runs and 100 wickets this week. (Received August 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. Yorkshire, 266 and 144 for five wickets (declared), d.ow with Middlesex, 170 and 85 for two wickets. INTERESTING POSITION. (Reoeived August 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. Friday’s results leave the cricket championship in an exciting position. Yorkshire is still in the lead, with a percentage of 78.07, Surrey 71.42, and Nottinghamshire 69.16. These are the only counties with a chanoe of winning. Notts seems hardly likely to make up the' leeway, eo to-day’s match, Surrey v. Yorkshire, at the Oval, will probably prove the deciding game. Collins’s feat of taking sixteen wiokete was a great performance, though not a record, as twelve bowlers have previously taken seventeen wickets in first-class matches. COMING TOURS MACLAREN’S TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND. (Received August 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. The Marylebone sub-committee announces that Maclaren’s team for Australia and New Zealand includes Calthorpe, Geoffrey, Wilson, Chapman, Lowry, Titchmarch, and McLean (of Worcestershire), and Freeman, A. C. Wilkinson, and R. 6t. L. Fowler have accepted subject to obtaining military leave. G. H. Gibson (Cambridge), who is now in South America, was invited, but has not replied. If he refuses, D. F. Brand will be invited. Hillwood, of Cambridge, and Colonel Hartley have also been invited. The team leaves on September 30th. The following will tour South Afrioa: ■—Mann (captain), Carr, A. Gilligan, Fender, Jupp, Stevens, Woolley, Livsey, Brown, Mead, Kennedy, and Russell. The following were invited, but refused: Sandharo, Macauley, Hobbs, and Parkin.