M.C.C. SIDE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 2

M.C.C. SIDE

s | PLAYERS FOR N.Z. TOU THUMB-NAIL SKETCHES j Ten players have already accept I the Marylebone Cricket Club's invil I tion for a tour of New Zealand in 19; 36, playing a few games in Austra before coining here. E. 11. J. Holm [ es Inis been offered the captaincy, ai ti . James Barks also invited to make I cd trip. 'jo Notes on these players: ng E. R. T. Holmes.—Born August 2 ay 1905. Fifth in Surrey averages la season, scoring 1186 runs at an avera: id of 33.88. Hit centuries against Lane J- shire, Essex and Kent. Also took ‘ n. wickets for 1394 runs, average cost 3 er J. 11. Human.—Born January 13. 191 ns lopped Cambridge University battin x- averages in 1934 with 64.44 for 18 con v- pleted innings. His 1160 runs include t- no fewer than live centuries: again; ii- Worcester, Essex. M.C.C.. Glamorgai il and Sussex. Quick on his feet. FTuina ic gave some glorious displays. Ha v- malaria when in India with the 195 team. 1S L. F. Townsend, average 31.44 ; all •lames Langridge. average 30.43. wer rs also in India. The former headed Hi howling, with 43 wickets for 608, avci ■ s age 14.13; Langridge. was fifth, 31 wit e kets for 585. average 18.87. N. S. Mitchell-Innes. —Born Septem ' p her 7. 1914. Led the Oxford Gniversit; |p hatting last summer. 998 rims at ai average of 55.44. He lid centuries again* ', I Surrey, Minor Counties and Gloucester -hire. For Somerset, however, he seorei only 335 runs in 19 innings (three no " out), average 20.93. He combines strom 11 defence with clean hitting all round tin wicket. Mitchell-Innes. who played u ' ihc first Test, is one of four who liavi J’ compiled a century against the Soutl 1 Africans this tour, having made 161 for Oxford. A. O. Powell.—Born on August 17 1912. Filled the position of wicket n keeper for Cambridge last year wit I ri marked ability. He scored 154 rum s for ’Varsity in 15 innings (once tin j beaten), and had an average of 2G whci b lie subsequently played for Essex. 1 Hon. C. J. Lyttelton.—Son of nintl Viscount Cobham (Hon. J. O. Lyttelton) who played for Eton and Worcester , shire. lias reputation of being a hard . hitting batsman for Worcestershire. I 11. D. Read.—Born January 28, 1910. Regarded hv some batsmen who- played s against him as faster than any otliei I howler in first-class rrieketa save Larwood. A great trier. Read lias the makr ings of a first-rate pace bowler. He was I second in the Essex averages last sumI uter. averaging 20.69 for his 58 wickets, lie created a sensation by taking seven Surrey wickets for 35 at. Brentwood. In 1933 Read assisted Surrey under a residential qualification, figuring against ( both universities, hut three weeks later lie appeared for the county of his birth, ’ Essex. James Langridge.— Born July 10. 1906. He is a left-hander, who in 1933 was one of the outstanding all-rounders in 1 England. For Sussex alone that year lie scored 1340 runs (average 41.87) and took 130 wickets (average (15.50). His figures last year were 1134 runs (average 37.80) and 48 wickets (average 28.35). Has represented England against West Indies, India and South Africa. Langridge was in Auckland with E. HBowley for the 1927-28 season, and lie scored 46 and 78 against the strong Australian team at Eden Park in March. 1308. - Dennis Smith.—Born January 34, 1907. lie materially assisted Derbyshire into third position in the 1934 county championship. After a, disappointing previous year, when ho was ninth. Smith (another left-hander) gave some brilliant exhibitions of fast scoring. and regained Second place in the averages with 35.56, compared with 20.45 in 1933. Increasing his aggregate by as many as 706 runs, he headed the list of century makers (with two against Surrey, one each Gloucestershire and Essex), and his spirited play had an uplifting cll'ect upon his colleagues. In the English thirteen from which Iho eleven will he selected for the third Test at Leeds. J. M. Sims.—Bom May 13. 1904. Owing to an appendicitis operation did not play for iiis county (Middlesex) last year until mid-July. He often bowled his slow leg breaks skilfully, and in tho first innings against Lancashire) on the champion county stronghold at Old Traft'ord, Sims took nine wickets for 92. His 37 wickets for the season cost 28.35 runs apiece. He had useful batting figures: 18 innings, 5 not-outs, 322 runs, highest score 69, average 24.76. “Called up” for third Test against South Africa. J. Hardstaff, jun.—Born July 3, 1913. He is a son of the Notts player who took part in all five tests for A.O. Jones’ M.C.C. team in Australia. 1907-8. til the most doleful season of Notts’ varied career, young Hardstaff came along most opportunely and, Hie one batsman to rise from the ordinary to the highest standard in his country's hour of need, he earned high praise. Securing a regular place in the side and promoted in the butting order to “second wicket town,” Hard staff improved out of all recognition. Stylish, strong and confident. he played many a line innings, with four centuries at his best : Hampshire, Essex. Surrey and Leicestershire. His tally for Notts was 1714 at an aver-) age of 40.80. He recently topped the hundred lor 1 1 is county against South Africa, a feat which led to his being called upon to plav in the third Test. J. if. Parks.—Born May. 1903. He mot with an accident, having a I,one in Ids right hand broken by a hall from E. W. Clark, the Xorl hauls left-arm express. Although missing a month ol cricket. Barks as opening batsman rovenlcd a great improvement upon Ins 1933 form, especially when facing fast howling, while his 'skilful flighting of Hie hall made him a valuable member ol the attack, lie scored 1386 runs l'or Sussex lav. 50.74) and took 56 wickets for 28.70 runs apiece The first six players are amateurs and the remaining half-dnken professionals. To complete the parly, apparently. a couple more amateur.* are to be chosen, fox of the dozen plovers already announced to make the Now Zealand tour have either played in this season’s Tests against South' Africa, or hern “called up” for the match at I .eeds.