BRILLIANT YOUNG BATSMEN

NZ Truth, Issue 1102, 13 January 1927, Page 12

BRILLIANT YOUNG BATSMEN

Why Not Brice As Touring Captain? (By li. T. C obcroft.) , PAGE, Hollings, Cooper and Mills are* four young batsmen who r must be well m the running for the trip to England/ while it will be hard to ignore the claims of Brice, Blunt, Allcott and Ounninghame when the bowlers come tobe selected. WORD has been received from the. Of the fast b{w!er«_ playing m north to the effect that D. Hay the Shield; games this . »eason, (who has been appointed man- Henderson is undoubtedly the best, ag»r of the New Zealand team) has also he, is far and away the fastest, taken very: little Interest ; fa i. cricket Gunningrhaine is jußt over the during the laat-few, yearfl and seldom medium paC e ( w hlle Brice hardly ever attends a match. bowla twobaVls the same pace. He is If, this is true (and I have every un a ou i3tedly the most "heady" of the . reason to believe that it is) it seemfl a lo + and one w b 0 will discover a batspity that the choice had not fallen on man ' S wea kness quicker ,-, than /-, any come other official^-aay, C. Q. Wilson, -Qtherij-o^erinthe Dominion, who' has kept m dose touch with the has slowed down greatly ffame and players during the whole of ince last season and is not at all ac,hlß long association with cricket cura t e m his length, i To be a ; good manager of a cricKet tour such aa this is likely to be, It ia Mat Henderson is a great trier, not only necessary to be acquainted and possessetl of the. proper tern-. . with each player's ability aa a perament for big ' cricket/ cricketer, but also , to be alive to the _ i^Wiiw >!*. 4h6 first temperament and mannerisms of eabh >/^"|-'- w 2L:-' < 3S a slf o - -^1 Je the player, which wiir then be .conducive wicke *; ke ? pe^ v bU n t k tn a hk^nv Tamil v . second? Lowry, no doubt! to a nappy, ramuy. ..... v Still, the latter is not on a par with Ces Dacre.is stnhas ;bn|Ua'nt at several, we have m New ; Zealand, but ever as a batsman. : • .. one; cannot get away from the fact that Bill Cunninghame has not yet bowled, he. is a very : fine batsman. . ,' _ with any -great success this season; Some.people say Lowry will captain etlll, he is a bowler the New Zealand the side on account of his experience. ;team will be unable to do* without. Now, I venture to say, that he cannot Auckland could have done with All- be compared with Bric^ when it comes cott and I Smith m the game against to experience, generalship or popularity Wellington., These: tyro bowlers are with the , players. . useful on any side.. r . - ; ■ . . | understand that, a prominent The question as tc 1 who will be the ■ p|ayer of the last New Zealand fart bowler of the New Zealand team t F eami touring Australia was .anyIs causta^a, lot^of. controversy. >■ y . thin gv but. popular : with the; maTThat with Dickinspn heing ,50^ per : jori{ J of th^players who made up cent telow Ills 1924-5 form (this mainly iuU *. nn x ' a < through an accident to his shoulder . V ■-. ■f v m m ' whfle playlnsr football), and younj It la, tp be hoped that U the aame Hopfc the Manawatu fast bowler, hay- player te Included m the Engliah tour ins Just gone under » successfii opera repetition of what happened m Aus- , JSm for^^ appendicltto, New -Zealand la tralia will be conspicuous by its abbadly aerved at present. :\ "■ ""■' ■ \---:_ .sence. -:. ;v'-'- ■•';./: '[;;:.<\ : .- _■:.. ... ■■,■/■,;