COUNTY CRICKET GAMES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 4

COUNTY CRICKET GAMES

ENGLISH CHAMPIONS PERFORM. CHAPMAN MAKES LARGE SCORE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 22, 2.45 p.m. London, June 21. In the county cricket matches Yorkshire, in their first innings, made 81. Haig took seven for 33 and Durston three for 27. In their second innings they made 262 (Kilner 53). Lee took three for two. Middlesex in their first innings made 178 (Lee 52). Macaulay took five for 47. In their second innings they made 169 for four wickets (Hendren not out 68). Middlesex won by six wickets. Oxford, in their first innings, made 226 (R. Butterworth 110), and in the second made 287 for four (declared), A. Crawley 150, Gazalet 66. Surrey, in their first innings made 206 (Ducat SO, Jardine 53), and in the second made 21 for one wicket. The mateh was drawn owing to rain. Essex in their first innings made 260 took six for 71. In the second they made 174 (Russell 60). Kennedy took 5 for 67. Hampshire in their first innings made 248 (Mead 70), and in the second innings 127. Niehols took nine for 59. Essex won by 59 runs. Kent in their first innings made 441 (Chapman 260, Legge 101). Tyldesley took five for 94. In the second they made 239 for three (Ashdown not out S’p, Evans 1431. Lancashire in their first innings made 329 (Hallows 82, Eversley not out 73). and in the second made 115 for two (Hallows not out 57). Kent won on the first innings. /Playing for Gloucester against Northants, Mills took five for 41. Parker in the first innings took five for 50, and in the second nine for 46. Gloucester won. Playing for Somerset against Derby, White took eight for 62. Derby won. Playing for Glamorgan against Worcester, Mercer took six for 40. Ryan took five for 42. Playing for Worcester, Root took five for 43. Glamorgan won. - Playing for Leicester against Notts, Astill made 121 not out. Playing for Notts, Derwood took six for 74. Nott* won. NOTES FROM HOME. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 5. The authorities at Lords have often puzzled the cricketing public. Last summer, when the Australians were here, P. F. Warner, Percy Perrin, and A. E. R. Gilligan, with the assistance of Hobbs and Rhodes, were appointed to pick the England team for the Test matches, and I do not think any selection committee was ever subjected to less criticism. They did not, f course, please every one. The refulsal to play Parker, the Gloucestershire slow bowler, even when the wicket seemed favourable to him, was a little mysterious, but on the whole they did their work exceedingly well. At any rate, they had the foresight to bring back Rhodes, and it was largely this move which resulted in the Australians being beaten in the last match, and “the ashes’’ being recaptured. But now the M.C.C. have sacked all these selectors for the present season. Instead, they have appointed J. W. H. T. Douglas and A. W. Carr to serve under the chairmanship of H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, the old Surrey Captain. As last year, a professional from the North and another from the South will be co-operated. One does not doubt that this committee will do their work efficiently, but what is the reason for the change? No one seems to know. In any case there eno Test teams to choose this season. All that LevesonGower and his colleagues will have to do is to pick the sides for the two trial games. The first of these is to take place in June at Leeds, between elevens representing the North and South. The second is a match between England and the Rest at Lords in August. The county season has just begun, the first match giving Lancashire, the champions, an easy win over Warwickshire. But the performance was not altogether satisfactory. Lancashire have a powerful array of bowlers, headed by Macdonald, the Australian, but, when the wicket was new and in first-class Condition, they, could make little impression on the Warwickshire batsmen. Afterwards, when the pitch had worn, Iddon, who has spent the winter in South Africa, was almost unplayable. He kept an excellent length, and, moreover, spun the ball cleverly, with the result that he took six wickets for twenty-two runs, the side being dismissed for sixty-four. It was an unexpected collapse, and the champions had r.o difficulty in winning by eight wickets. The New Zealanders have arrived, and, curiously enough, their first engagement >vas to visit a football match. When they went to see the Arsenal and Birmingham, play, they had not even been to Lord’s. But now they are at Lord’s every day, getting their “land legs,” as T. C. 1 ry, the captain put it. The tourists open their programme at Lords next week, when they will meet a team represent the M.C.C.