BEST BATSMAN OF TOUR?

NZ Truth, Issue 1045, 5 December 1925, Page 11

BEST BATSMAN OF TOUR?

KILL IT BE THE ACCURATE BILLY PATRICK? I ■ Great Chance For Apt Pupils

On top of interesting club play m the various centres, and forecasts of interprbyincial rep. Sams comes the tour of the New Zealand team m Australia, so the local cricket intelligence has imething to think about. If we cannot twist the KangafdQ's tail, can we at least make him hop ? How will New Zealand' batghlMr'&iiape agahigt Australian piers; and can it be said "that the New Zealarid&fs W6l'& preinted with a soft opening td theii'toUr.wheii they eonfrOftted the beenslanders, and stood ,Up against the bowling &t Hornibrook ldO^ehMm ? ■' .

The Barianalahd StatS is -not fey" aiiy sans an easy, proposition for N&W aland to tackle, writes Mr. L». T. Cbb' = oft. Still, I have great hopes that we n hold our own with the Banahanders m Spite .of the feet that lidrfil* ook and Oxenham are on the attacks' side. FJprnibrook 'is well known to New MandeF§, &nd there" -i§'.ft6 dßUßfc he" is tJowler bordering on Te*st cricket m istralia. No Nerves." [t is rather early m the tour to forest who . will he the suee^sses and 10 the failures (let u§ hope there is failure!) of the New Zealand team. Bui I a.m df dpihldn that, notwithstanding the bf illianfee Of Dacre and Worker, Billy Patrick will be Found th§ ffid§t Solid, and will 6dme badk With the batting average. Patrick is a playerwho dbe§ fldt pos-. 3S nerves front a cricketing point of ;w, bats very correctly, and takes no due fisic* This is the stamp of lyejt Who Will ge"t rung m Australia.' [Tor forcing and dashing play there no one on the side to compare with Lcre, the natty little Aucklahder. the bowling hdhbfs will, I think be shared by the two lefthanders, Mcßeath and Allcbtt. kllcott will be a much better bowler Australia than he is m New Zealand, ? he requires a fast "wicket; but let 3 Wicket be m the crumbling stage,' damaged by rain, and there will y be one bowler ■ ih it and that is ! genial Dan, from christenurch. nfidence; .11 the younger mettibers^ of the side uld be greatly improved players on Wfeturnr They should be full of confidence fter having had a few games gainst some of the best cricketers l the world. ly closely studying the various :h6ds and. tactics that bOwlers adopt trap batsm-en, by noting the way a sman's feet are moved and placed m ition for the ' making of certain jkes, and by gathering a number of ful hints Obtainable from players of c, the New Zealanders will receive Heat education, and will m a few Jks learn more than if they were raged against players of their own ibre for years. ■ . . . ■ , I have ho hesitation m saying hat if half a dozen , or so of our «iew Zealand batsmen had a sea- v ion's cricket m Australia, they vould be quite capable of .holding heir place m apy State team. . We know what Dan.Re'ese was' like! c have others, who onlyirequire the, portunity t •