ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18875, 20 February 1933, Page 8

ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

MATCH AT NEWCASTLE.

WARNER AND HOBBS PLAY.

DISPUTE AMICABLY SETTLED.

United Press Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, Feb. 19. The English cricketers yesterday began a three days’ match at Newcastle against a Northern Districts team. The team representing England was as follows:—Wyatt (captain), Warner, Hobbs, Pataudi, Brown, Leyland, Mitchell, Voce, Bowes, Tate and Duckworth. The local side was led by H. Hooker, who won the toss and decided to bat on a good wicket. The weather was sultry. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd of spectators. Northern Districts in their first innings made 320 runs for seven wickets, (R. Beattie 53, L. Little 40, A. Chipperfleld 152).

Donnelly and Robinson retired hurt. The former sprained an ankle. Chipperfleld and Beattie gave a bright exhibition of batting. Chipperfleld hit Voce all over the ground. Brown and Bowes were the most successful bowlers.

The dispute regarding the playing of Warner and Hobbs was amicably adjusted at Newcastle yesterday after a long conference between cricket officials and Wyatt, Warner, Hobbs, R. Palairet and F. Cush, a member of the Board of Control. The public was in doubt whether the match would be played until late in the forenoon.

The main objection was not to Hobbs, but to Warner, who long since retired from big cricket. Both played in the match.

THE FIFTH TEST. LEE REPLACES NAGEL. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright ADELAIDE, Feb. 19. The secretary of the Cricket Board of Control announces that P. Lee has been selected to replace Nagel In the fifth and final test match, to be commenced in Sydney next Thursday. Lee is an all-round player and a splendid spin bowler. In Sheffield Shield games this season he has taken 25 wickets for an average of 17 runs.

The Australian team for the final test match will be selected from the following 12 players: —Woodfull, Richardson, Bradman, McCabe,' Oldfield, O’Brien, Darling, Bromley, O’Reilly, Lee, Ironmonger and Wall. Tiie twelfth man will be chosen on the first day of the match. Nagel had to drop out owing to an injured arm.

AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

BROMLEY TWELFTH MAN

(Received Feb. 20, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 20

The test team selectors have announced that Bromley will be twelfth man in the flfth test.

FUTURE TOURS.

PRESS OPINION IN LONDON,

TROUBLES OF PRESENT SERIES

(Received Feb. 20, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 19

‘‘The future of test tours-can be considered at leisure in an atmosphere free from strain,” says the Observer editorially. “The troubles of the present series have arisen not from the players but from a certain section of the public and the type of journalism too ready apparently to cater for its weaknesses. The rules of cricket may need reform. If so it will not he so much in the direction of the suppression of the leg theory as of altering the conditions that brought it into being. It is the bowler, not the batsman, who needs more consideration. If there be any lingering danger of quasi-political animus the tests would better be dropped altogether for a time."