TEST TEAM

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 16

TEST TEAM

Aussies' Strong Side (By Gable.— From C. E. Kelleway.) Australia, has picked her first Test teami arid with hardly an exception the side has met with general approval. "Now bring out your bulldogs!" is the feeling of the kangaroo to John Bull. THE team to play England at'Bris- . " bane on November 30 is as follows :— J. S. Ryder (captain), D. 'Bradman, -J. M. Gregory, C V. Grimmett, H. L. Hendry, B. Ironmonger, C. E. Kelleway, A. F. Kippax, W. A. Oldfield, R. Oxenham, .W. Ponsford and W. M. Woodfull. Hendry, the Victorian, was selected as twelfth man, but "Truth's" critic, who is m the side, holds the opinion that Vie. ■ Richardson, the South Australian, who has been having a run of bad luck, but who played a delightful innings against the Englishmen m Adelaide, should have gone m as twelfth man instead of Hendry. It is a fine batting side, with eight men — Ryder, Ponsford, Wood - full, Bradman, Kippax, Gregory, Oldfield, and Kelleway — capable of making centuries. As a batsman, Ponsford has few peers, while Bradman has made a fine name. for himself during the past few weeks. The, '■ bowlers will be Kelleway, Gregory, Grimmett, Oxenham and Ironmonger, with Bradman to vary the attack, so that Australia will lack nothing m attack. n There is no- wicket-keeper m the world to-day greater than the popular Bert Oldfield. IT is never safe to forecast the result * of a ballot, but. followers of cricket m Auckland were surprised by the change which the A.C.A. made m its committee for the selection of representative "teams. The harmonious working of Messrs. Beale, Sneddon and Cummings for the past two seasons left nothing to be desired, but m the ballot . by the management committee Cununings was replaced by W. S. Sriieeton., > ■ ... . There is apparently no explanation for this move, for if there had been dissatisfaction it would have been only fair to all three selectors to have had a general re-shuffle.. ' The management committee may have quite good reasons for dropping Cummings, but m the- eyes of the Auckland cricket, circle, he did his job well for two seasons and the public is left to wonder at the change. . ("•HARLEY SAUNDERS, of the WaiV rau. Club, is evidently going to try himself out as a single sculler. He has purchased a skiff; and is practising. It will take a good man to win the title from Jackson, v but still there is nothing like trying, "lid Saunders has shpwn that he can handle an oar m pair-oared events.