CRICKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19700, 29 January 1926, Page 9

CRICKET

AUSTRALIAN’S ENGLISH TOUR. SELECTIONS MADE. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 28. The cricket selectors have chosen A. Richardson (South Australia), Ellis (second wicket-keeper, Victoria), and Woodfull (Victoria) to participate in the English tour. The selectors have suggested to the Board of Control that the team should consist of sixteen players, and that the sixteenth should be a fast howler to help Gregory. METHODS OF SELECTION. EARDSLEY’S VIEWS. CHOOSING A CAPTAIN. LONDON, January 27. “I know it is touching on delicate ground,” says 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 m© that the rigid adherence to the idea that a professional must not lead England may one day cost England dear, as it has already done more than once. My knowledge of Hobbs, who knows Australia and Australian cricket ns fow living Englishmen do, suggests that he would make a more formidable leader than a-n amateur who has not been to Australia. Collins has Australia behind him; therefore we shall be a happv band, and that is three-quarters of the battle.” A. and N.Z. Cable.