CRICKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 December 1927, Page 6

CRICKET.

ENGLISH BATTING STRONG. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. yf r i-;. E. Bean, formerly secretary of the Victorian Cricket Association, on his'return from England, said that the English team that would visit Australia next rear would probably be very strong in batting, but good bowlers were scarce. Nevertheless, there would be a suiliciently strong body of men to make the next Test team a tough proposition, for Australia. Chapman would most likely be the captain. Mr Beau said he considered the daylight saving in England had given a great lillip to the game of cricket, which was played wherever there was a vacant piece of land. SOUTH AUSTRALIA BEAT N.S.W. AD ELA IDE, Weduesday. ■South Australia, defeated New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield cricket match l.iv one wicket. Their second innings score was nine wickets for 189 runs. .Four runs were needed when the last bail was bowled. The batsman and keeper missed it, and four lives resulted. VICTORIA DEFEAT QUEENSLAND. AI E LBOE RNE, Wednesday. In the Sheffield Shield match, Queensland in the second innings made 107. Victoria, won bv an innings and 107 runs, i —‘ HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS SHIELD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUG'KLAND, Wednesday. The Jleathcote Williams Shield match between the Napier High School (challengers) and the Auckland Grammar School (holders) commenced at Eden Park to-day. Auckland in the first innings scored 352. A feature of the innings was a fine partnership by L h. Cashmere and P. E. Wliitelaw. In just under two hours they scored 2:;::. and both made centuries, Whitelaw getting 127 and Cashmere 110. Other principal scorers were H. McKean 54. M. M. Fraser 20, F. Stelir 16, and H. McCormick 14. Napier compiled 182 in the first innings (X. Craig 47, d. Cowan 27, .T. Kenny 64. L. Bradley 21, If. Beany not out 12, B. Brown 31).