CRICKET.

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14776, 15 October 1921, Page 14 (Supplement)

CRICKET.

(By "Cover Point.")

The High School lads are now actively at the practice wickets of an evening, under the tuition of one of the school instructors, it is a real hive of industry round the nets there, and the School promise to show talent again this season. That the Australian bowling has been so successful because of its pace is not my opinion. It is due to the fad that there is head work behind it. —A. C. MacLaren.

"Football may have made inroads upon Hie affection of the public, but it has not yet torn from it that love 01 cricket which is 'ingrained in the Eng-lish-speaking race. —G. L. Jessop. in a public schools' cricket match in England recently a bowler took all ten wickets in one innings with lob bowling at a cost of 23 runs. E. Hockley Wilson, the English cricketer who is so beloved (!) of Australian barrackers, took seven Middlesex wickets iin an innings for 32 runs for Yorkshire at Sheffield recently, and so caused the champion county side to be dismissed for 82 runs.

In English Counly cricket, recently, A. Kennedy (Hampshire) took eight Glamorganshire wickets, in one innings for 11 runs t with leg-breaks. His lirst live wickets, taken in eight overs, cost only six runs. It was a bowler's wicket.

This season, slates a London exchange, supplied county cricket with an unusual number of names occurring in two counties. Surrey and Lancashire each has a Cook, Essex and Kent a Freeman, Sussex and Worcester a Bowling, Notts and Middlesex a Lee, Hants and Essex a Brown, Northants and Kent a Woolley, Yorkshire and Gloucester three Robinsons. Warwick shares Bates with Glamorgan, three llowells with Surrey, and Smith with Gloucester.

The New South Wales Cricket Association proposes lo carry its competition matches for the forthcoming season up lo April 22. Al a special meeting recently several delegates deplored the tendency to cut down short the programmes of recent years m favour of football matches.

There was heavy scoring in a match between the Lancashire and Surrey County cricket elevens at the Oval late in July. Lancashire, batting first, scored 454 for nine wickets, and then declared the innings closed. ETyldcslcy contributed 123. Surrey replied with 529, and won by points on (he first innings. E. Shepherd, a young Surrey professional, who made Ids first appearance for the county last season, scored 212 runs. Within the space of two short hours at Leicester (England), Wilfred Rhodes, of Yorkshire, completed the double event of scoring over 100 U runs and taking more than 100 wickets. This for the twelfth lime ol asking! He is (lie only Englishman to achieve distinction in Test matches against Australia. Top of the English bowling averages in 1010, top again in 1920, and to-day still leading, he has a batting average of close on 40, and 23 catches to his credit. “Oh, for an hour of Wilfrid and his Tennis’ ball at Old Trafford,” exclaims a writer in The Cricketer, with Struddy behind the sticks! Australia might easily have required all the King’s horses and quite lots of his men!" Apropos of a statement made in the English press that the cricket Tests were frequently lost through the English teams putting up at different hotels “A.W.” of the Daily Chronicle, lifts up his voice in song as follows : Of evil hope let none complain When “extras” mount and catches drop, If “cover” trains on old champagnt And “point” on ginger pop. We square our holes for rounded pegs, 111 fits for granted may be taken. When captains feed on harn and eggs, And men on eggs and bacon. Small wonder if distressing scenes Accompany our batting wooden, When some sit down to “pork and greens," And some to "beef and pudden.” It’s not “fare” play really!