CRICKET.

NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 3

CRICKET.

(By Scout) *

The official announcement that the Marylebone Club has decided to send a representative team to Australia next season has .given great satisfaction m cricket circles across the Tasnian. The team will arrive m" October nextThe name of the Hon. F. S. 'Jackson, as captain, has been » freely mentioned. There is, too, a likelihood of his coming. All the leading professionals of England are available, as "well as most of the professionals. Archie, McLaren will probably make one of the team if Jackson be the captain, but m the absence of. $he Yorkshi reman, the role of captain is 1 offered to someone who is his junior, the Lancastrian may not be m the party. Private information received m Sydney points to K. L. Hutchings and R. N. Spooner having a strong desire to visit Australia. Strong efforts were 'made to bring Hatchings to New Zealand with the Marylebone team, but without avail. ( A well-known English cricketer, writing' to a friend m Australia, stated that if the Marylebone CC. declines to send the team this year, a combination thoroughly representative of England could be got together privately. t Australia will now need to shake herself together, and give battle to the i> rthcoiriing team with the same deadly earnestness of 1891-2, 1894-6, and 1897-8. prior to which its cricket had suffered from an eclipse by England.