CRICKET.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 707, 24 September 1903, Page 15

CRICKET.

A cable received during the week states that the following are the English firstclass cricket batting, averages —C. B. Kry 81, Ranjitsinhji 56, Hirst 47, Knight 45, Tyldesley 44, A. C. Maclaren 42, P. F. Warner 39, A. Hayward 35, B. Bosanquet 34, Braund 32, Arnold 31, Rhodes 27, Lilley 25, Relf 21. Out of the fourteen names cabled eleven are members of th© M.C.C. eleven which is to leave England for Australia to-morrow. * * * * Mead has the best English bowling average, having taken 131 wickets at a cost of 13| runs apiece, Blythe and Hargreaves come next, and t-hen follow seven members of the M.C.C. team, in Rhodes, Hirst,. Arnold, Fielder, Relf, Bosanquet, and Braund. * * * * Of 17 matches plaved by the Philadelphians in their English tour, 7 have been won. 6 lost, 3 drawn, and the game with Sussex abandoned without a ball being bowled. The captain, J. A. jLester, heads the batting averages with 36.09, J. B. King and P. H. Clark being the most successful bowlers.