CRICKET.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 11

CRICKET.

THE GAME IN ENGLAND. ALLOM’S GOOD SEASON. M. J. G. Allom, who did the hattrick tor Harold Gilligan’s M.C.C. team against New Zealand, in Christchurch, last cricket season, took more wickets lor Surrey than any other bowler in the 1930 season in England. His 07 wickets in the county’s matches' cost 23.95 runs each. He finished second in the Surrey bowling average, to E. G. Stroud, who took only 20 wickets.

Unique Experience. The diverse experiences of.two batsmen in one match—Northamptonshire v. Glamorgan at Peterborough, in the English cricket season which ended last month—are probably without parallel in county cricket, though seperate similar things have happened in other matches, u. Davies, batting for Glamorgan, played the ball on to the stumps without disturbing the bails. A. H. Bakewell, batting for Northamptonshire, was not so fortunate. He diverted a ball from F. Ryan on to the wicket, a bail was dislodged from the groove and came to rest on top of the stumps. Bakewell was out; Davies was not. Law 20 of the Laws of Cricket says: “The wicket shall be held to be ‘down’ when either of the bails is struck off.”. Two seasons ago the M.C.C. gave a ruling on this point, making it clear that a batsman is out if any part of either bail has left the groove..

Langrldge Does Well. James Langridge, helped by good .fortune, extricated Sussex from a difficult position at Southend, and is the first player to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets this season (says the Athletic News). young lefthander, going in when the visitors had lost three wickets for 13, put up •a plucky display extending over three hours ten minutes, and he helped to raise the score to 174 before he left. He enjoyed luck .from the outset, being missed by Crawley in the slips before scoring. A difficult chance was missed: off him in the slips when 37, while Nichols gave him another “life” in the gully when he had reached 61. Despite these blemishes, Langridge deserves every credit for a fine performance. His chief hits were eight 4’s, and the turning point in the fortunes of Sussex came during his partnership with Gilligan, when pair put on an invaluable 78 in just under two hours. Langridge was in Auckland with E. H. Bowley a couple of seasons back. .

Prolific Scoring

Gloucestershire’s newly - qualified professional, Dacre, had a wonderful afternoon at Worcester in July. He had seen Dipper and Sinfield dismissed with only 32 on the board, and he had seen his captain, B. ,H. Lyon, make a few defiant strokes in the course of an excellent 48. So he' took his courage in his hands and hit withf absolute daring, his driving being magnificent (reports the Athletic News). He lifted Root and Brook out- of the field repeatedly, and he had five G’s and twenty-five 4’s during his stay of, three hours and a-quarter for 223. The longer he stayed the more resolute he became. For example, he scored his fourth 50 in the short .time of thirty minutes, and he was out only through an almost reckless disregard of consequences. His innings eclipsed his previous best Gloucestershire performances- of 95 against Middlesex and IUO not out against Oxford University. It overshadowed all else, and was in great contrast to the placid innings of D. N. Moore, who took three hours to score 80, which was distinguished by a few classic cuts which yielded seven 4’s. Thanks to some lively hitting by Neale and Bar.nett, the side's average rate of scoring was kept up at 100 an hour for three hours, and a splendid total of 459 was reached by 6 o’clock. Dacre is the ex-Aucklander who has so often delighted New Zealand crowds with his hurricane hitting. Another Trip Homo. The “King of cricket scorers,” W. Ferguson, of Sydney, is to accompany the New Zealand cricket , team, as scorer and baggage-man, in its tour of England year. A most artistic and efficient scorer, Ferguson has kept the book for many of the most famous sides of post-war times, amj has travelled to just about every cricket-playing country there is. He has been through New Zealand with Australian sides more than once, and last season he toured the Dominion with Harold Gilligan’s English combination. At the present time he is on his way back to Australia on the Oronsay with W. M. Woodfull’s players, in charge of their newly-won Ashes. Apart from his record as a scorer he is connected with the game by sentiment, for he is a brotherrin-law of M. A. Noble, former Australian skipper. NEW ZEALAND PLAY'ER. The record of T. McGirr, the New Zealand all-rounder, covering 14 seasons of representative cricket, including matches against teams from Australia and England is worthy of perusal. In these he made 412 G runs, at an average of 26,41, and secured 283 wickets at 25.95. On the English tour he took 69 wickets at 23.98 runs apiece and made 809 runs at 21.8 G.

NOT THE YOUNGEST. Although it has neen generally supposed that the last touring Australian Cricket team to England was the youngest yet sent out from the Commonwealth, such is not the case. The youngest on the average was the 1878 eleven. The last team was 2i years older, on the average, than that one, w'hose average age was 24 J years.

USE SIMPLE WORDS. The Minister: Did you see a pedestrian pass this way a tew minute’s ago ?

Farm Hand: No, sir. I’ve been woi'K.n on ims taler patch inore’n a nower, and notter thing has passed ’cept a solitary man, an’ he was trampin’ on loot.