CRICKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19767, 15 February 1927, Page 4

CRICKET

MELBOURNE AND WANGANUI TO-DAY’S BIG MATCH. VISITORS FIELD STRONG ELEVEN A great deal of interest is being taken in the representative fixture between the Melbourne Cricket Club and Wanganui at Cook’s Gardens to-day. The visitors, who arrived in Wanganui yesterday, will field a very strong side and some brilliant cricket should be witnessed. The weather conditions last night did not look too promising, but provided the weather keeps clear the wicket should be in perfect order. Following are th© teams: — MELBOURNE. WANGANUI. W. Armstrong, G. Orr, T. Armstrong, Treadwell, K. Campbell, Bemau, E. P. Dakin, Kerr, H L. Ebeling, Thakabou, R. Jewell, McAneny, B. A. Onyons, Dampster, V. S. Hansford, Harris, T. B. Wood, H. Williams, H. C. Sandford, Holland, T. Rogerson. Wood. The Melbourne Cricket Club, which led in the senior championship in Victoria up to the time of its departure, is a very fine all round side and includes the old internationals Hugh Trumble, Warwick Armstrong, and V. Ransford. New Zealand has quite a lot to thank the Melbourne Cricket Club for. The side has visited New Zealand on three occasions—l9oo and 1906 being the years of the last two trips. Armstrong, who skippers the present touring team, has made cricket history for Australia. He captained the Australian side successfully in a number of tests against England. He has gathered round him a band of brilliant players. Some have been in the first flight in Australia and some of the others will no doubt follow in their wake within the next two or three years. One of the best known figures among the visitors is the manager of the side, Air Hugh Trumble. He visited New Zealand in 1896 and 1899, and at that time he was probably the finest bowler in the world.

Ransford is a splendid left-hander, who needs no introduction to Wanganui, and Ebeling was also with the last Victorian team which visited New Zealand.

Play will commence at 11 o’clock, and the luncheon adjournment will be from one till two o’clock. Stumps will be drawn at six o’clock.