CRICKET

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 351, 15 April 1897, Page 12

CRICKET

[By

Stonewaller.]

New South Wales is the premier colony in Australian cricket this season, and for the second year in succession the mother colony is the holder of Lord Sheffield’s beautiful shield. The senior electorate matches have been a great success, and although they have not yet been completed it is pretty certain that last year’s winners, the Glebe, will be again at the top of the tree. This is the team with which M’Kibbin and Conningham play, and the Sydney Mail reports that the Glebe are about to suffer a severe loss, as T. Cobcroft, G. Youill, and J. Doyle have made up their minds to go to New Zealand. The first-named is pretty wellknown in New Zealand, as he captained the last New ISouth Wales team which visited us. For two years he has captained the victorious Glebe team. He is a steady, reliable batsman, a good field anywhere, and an excellent change bowler. In the last match with Glebe he made 50. Youill is an Inter-colonial player of no mean repute. He is a most elegant batsman, and is no stranger to the centuries, while he is a fair field and occasionally bowls. Jimmy Doyle is well-known in Sydney sporting circles. He is not as good a cricketer as his two companions, but in racing law he is proficient, and all horsey men will remember him as one of Mr T. S. Clibborn’s most active assistants in the Australian Jockey Club’s office.