THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 9

THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM

INNINGS VICTORY OVER OXFORD. RICHARDSON’S DINE AVERAGE. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) LONDON, May 25. Oxford in their second innings made 177, the Australians winning, by an innings and 13 runs. Scores : AUSTRALIA. First innings 321 OXFORD. First innings 131 Second Innings. Serrurier, c Gregory, b Mailey ... ... 9 Stuart-Brown, st Ellis, b Grimmett ... 38 Holmes, b Gregory 20 G. H. Taylor, b Richardson 59 Legge. b Gregory 3 Stephenson, c Woodfnll, b Grimmett 23 ■I. V. Richardson, c Andrews, b Richardson 6 Lutterworth, b Richardson 0 Abell, c Ellis, b Richardson 8 Grecnstock, b Richardson ... 2 M'Canlis, not out 4 Extras 6 i Total 177 Bowling Analysis ; —Ryder, none for 22; Richardson, five for 36; Mailey, one for 57; Grimmett two for 30; Gregory, two for 27.—Reuter. STRONG MIDDLESEX SIDE. LONDON, ; May 25. The Middlesex team to meet Australia will be Mann, Nigel, Haig, Stevens, Bruce, Allen, Tanner. Hearne, Hendren, Lee, Durston, Murrell.—A. and N.Z. Cable. RESULTS TO DATE. The following are the results of the matches played by the Australians to date : Minor Counties, drawn.—Australia 179, Minor Counties 115 for four wickets. Leicestershire, drawn.—Australia 336, Leicestershire 96 and 15 for one wicket. Essex, abandoned owing to rain.—Australia 538 for nine wickets (declared), Essex five for two wickets. iSurrev. drawn.—Australia 395 for nine wickets (declared) and 74 for two wickets. Surrey 265. Hampshire, won by 10 wickets.—Australia 571 and none for 53. Hampshire and 248. Marylebone, drawn.—Australia 383. Marylebone 139 and 5 (or 83. Cambridge, drawn.—Australia 235 and two for 17. Cambridge 212 and 81. Oxford won by an innings and 13 runs. Australia 321. Oxford 151, and 177. REMAINING MATCHES. May C 6 South of EnghinU Bristol May 29 Middlesex Cord's June 2 North o' England Birmingham June 5 Yorkshire Bradford June 9 Durham Sunderland June 12 First Test Nottingham June 16 Yorkshire Sheffield June 19 Lancashire Manchester June 2.1 Derby Derby June 26 Second Test Lord's June 30 Northampton Northampton July 3 Nottingham Nottingham' July 7 Worcester Worcester July 10 Third Test Leede July 14 Lancashire Liverpool July 17 West of Scotland Glasgow July 21 Scotland Edinburgh July 24 Fourth Test Manchester , July 28 Surrey The Ova! July 31 Glamorgan Cardiff Aug 4 Warwickshire Birmingham Aug. 7 Gloucester Cheltenham Aug. 11 G. P. Schools Lord’® Aug. 14 Fifth Test The Oval Aug. 21 Somerset Taunton Aug. 25 Kent Canterbury Aug 28 Sussex Brighton Sept. 1 English XX. Folkestone Sept. 4 Civil Service Chiswick Sept. 8 Thornton’s XL Scarborough Sept, 11 English XI. Blackpool Sept. 1G Palmer’s XI. Whitehaven THE AVERAGES. The batting and bowling averages of the Australian team for the first seven matches of the tour show the all-round strength of the side. They also disclose a feature that is not uncommon in Australian teams—namely that when some of the more reliable batsmen or bowlers fail others take up the running and notch a big score or capture wickets as the case may be. Considering the wet wickets that have been encountered in most of the games the batting averages are remarkably good,—in fact they are so high in sonic instances that the holders cannot hope to maintain them. For instance, Gregory who was included in the team mainly on account of his bowling, heads the list with an average of 114.66, largely owing to the fact that he has played two “not out” innings for 120 and 130 runs respectively. Not far away comes Woodfull with an average of 109.50 and this batsman has so far scored the highest total of runs, his figures being 438, or nearly 100 more than Gregory. Macartney, Hendry, Ponsford (about whose success on English wickets some doubts were expressed), Taylor and Richardson have scored consistently well, and when firm, dry wickets are encountered they may be expected to improve their present averages. The bowling figures are perhaps not quite so reassuring, but they disclose the basis of a sound attack when it comes to the Tests. Macartney heads the list with 23 wickets for 241 runs and then comes Richardson with an average of 11.00, followed by Collins, Ryder, Grimmett, and Mailey. Gregory nd Everett, the fast bowlers have not been suited by the slow wickets and their figures read badly up to the present. Grimmett, the ex-New Zealander, has also proved fairly expensive, and but for his 6 for 28 against Cambridge his figures would not have been nearly so attractive. At the present time the bowling honours are with Macartney and Richardson. The following are the averages of the team up to and including the match against Oxford:— BATTING.

THE COUNTY COMPETITION. LONDON. May 25. Middlesex v. Sussex.—Middlesex : First innings, 194 (Tate took nine for 71, including the hat trick); second innings, 566 for five wickets (Lee 55 Hearne, 83, Bruce (3, Hendren 105 not out). Middlesex won by five wickets. Notts v. Surrey.—Notts: First innings 182 and second 473 for seven wickets, declared (George Gunn 191. Whysall 50, Carr 115). Surrey, first innings 555 (Sandham 144, Jeacocke 58, Shepherd 75 • Richmond took six for 108); second, 102 for three wickets (Sandham 52, not out). The match was drawn. Kent v. Hampshire. Kent: First innings, 568 for eight wickets declared (Hardings 160, Chapman 159, Seymour 71, Hubble 64 not out). Hampshire, first innings 382 (Brown 133, Aird 113) and second innings 186 (Woolley took 4 wickets for 48). Kent won by nine wickets.

Inn. N.O. n.p. Runs. . Aver. J M. Gregorv ... 8 3 •130 343 114.66 W. M. Woorlfull ... 5 1 201 438 100.50 H. L. Hendry ... 2 0 71 13!) 60.50 0 G. Macartney ... 6 0 148 203 48.83 W. H. Ponsford ... 6 1 •110 220 45.80 J. M. Taylor ... 7 1 76 228 38.00 A. J. Richardson ... 7 3 •50 137 34.25 W. Bards-ley ... ... 7 0 i% 135 27.14 J. L. Ellis ... ... 5 3 20 70 23.33 0 V. Grimmett ... 3 0 41 G9 23.00 H. L. Collins ... 6 0 43 130 21.50 T- J. K. Andrews ... 6 0 50 115 10.16 J. Ryder ... 9 1 35 136 17.00 A. A. Mniley ... 5 2 21 37 12.33 W. A. Oldfield ... 4 1 21 23 8.6G S. C. Everett •Xe 0 it out 8 10 5.00 BOWMSG. Wick etp. Runs. ± Vvcrage. C. G. Maenrtn iey . 23 241 10.47 A. J. Riohardi son .. 20 220 11.00 JT. J.. Oollins 3 41 13.66 ,T. Ryder .. 13 186 14.31 V. V. Grimmi ptt . 12 207 17.42 A. A. Mailey .. IB 2SS 17.S0 ,7. M. Gregory R 225 28.10 S. C. Everett 3 1.13 41.33 H. T.. Hendry . 0 "