CRICKET

Western Star, 3 December 1935, Page 2

CRICKET

(By Senex) Tarrant’s team i s still’ winning its matches in India, but we do not know the standard of its opponents’ play. Morrisby continues to bat well, and Oxenham is adding to his harvest of cheap wickets. The Marylebone cricketers in Australia are not playing up to th© standard I expected from the batting and bowling figures of most of them in England. Their play so far, added to the success of the South Africans in the Test matches, indicates that English cricket! has declined. Like Victoria, New South Wales has a fairly new side. Some of the newcomers are shaping well. In slow bowling White and Sludge recently have been more successful than the more experienced. Chilvois. Easton has been keeping wickets and batting well. McGilvray, the captain, bat s and fields well. Marks, left-hander, is showing some of his past form. Benstead, Riggs and Ebeling, who have been chosen with eight N.S.W. men to re-! present Australia against th e English visitors are good and experienced players.

Richardson’s team has made a good start by heavily defeating Natal, but it is too soon to halloo. The Australian! batting was good, but two Natalians' made a century each against the Australian bowlers. Grinnnett bowled finely and Chipperfield and McCormick fairly, but O’Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith unsuccessfully The turn of the latter pair will come, barring misfortune.