AUSTRALIA’S TEAM

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12357, 29 January 1926, Page 9

AUSTRALIA’S TEAM

FIFTEEN PLAYERS SELECTED A. RICHARDSON, WOODFULL, AND ELLIS TO GO THERE MAY BE A SIXTEENTH By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright SYDNEY, January 28. The cricket selectors (Messrs. J. S. Ryder, H. L. Collins, and Clem Hill) have chosen A. Richardson (South Australia), J. L. Ellis (Victoria), and W. M. Woodfull (Victoria) to participate in tile English tour. The selectors have also suggested to the Board of Control that the team should consist of 16 players, and thatthe sixteenth man should be a fast bowler, to help Gregory. The fifteen players now selected to make the tour of England are as follow : 1 H. L. COLLINS (N.S.W.), captain. W. BARDSLEY (N.S.W.), vieecaptain. W. H. PONSFORD (Victoria). W. A. OLDFIELD (N.S.W.). J. M. GREGORY (N.S.W.) J. M. TAYLOR (N.S.W.). C. G. MACARTNEY (N.S.W.). T. L. E. ANDREWS (N.S.W.). J. RYDER (Victoria). A. A. MAILEY (N.S.W.). C. V. GRIMMETT (S.A.). H. L. HENDRY (Victoria). W. M. WOODFULL (Victoria). ' A. RICHARDSON (S.A.). J. L. ELLIS (Victoria).

HOBBS SHOULD BE CAPTAIN

BARDSLEY ADVISES ENGLAND OLD IDEAS MUST GO. Australian and N.?. Cable Association LONDON, January 27. "I know it is touching delicate ground,” says Warren Bardsley in his fourth article in the “All Sports Weekly,” “but the Australian system of choosing a captain on his merits is preferable to the English system of selecting an amateur, often at the cost of passing over a proved tactician like • Hobbs. It seems to me that a rigid adherence to the idea that a professional must not lead England may one da-v cost England dear, as it has already done more than once. “My knowledge of Hobbs, who knows Australia and Australian cricket as few living Englishmen do, is that he would inake a far abler leader thap any amateur who has not been to Australia. - “Collins has Australia behind him, therefore we shall ho a happy band, and that is " threequarters of the battle.”