CRICKET.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17120, 15 April 1921, Page 10

CRICKET.

THE GAME IN NEW ZEALAND. (miss association timgeam.) AUCKLAND, Airrfl 14. Vernon Ransford, captain, and Edgt* WVddy, Vice-captain, of tin Australian cneW* toam, in mi interview, stated that cricket in New Zealand had improved »inr* their jmvious visit. The iNevr ZeaJnnd t«un Ml not at all a bad eric, containing iaome pl«3r«nj who. in Australia with th© practice and couching- ob'taina-blo there, could 6*t «*» •Klate teaiw. In Australia th« iriekot BUB* dard wa» based on two essentials—good wkkatff mid keen «choo!boy». Tho wicket" their tcitra had c.xp?rienced on tho' lour vow. not up to the Australian standard for ftntrdm* cricket, though there were two or threo exceptions. .... "Your fcida play {oolbrvll and our kw» pta? cricket," commented Waddy. Banefortl said ho «a.w pfonty of promisinc material for crickrt .nmon; young; New: »•*• landers, and had not the eli/rhUrftl doubt that relatively, the material for crioket development here was as good as in Australia., and ■wee only awaiting the proper methods of development. Hansford -iind Waddy exprcMeJ th* thank* of the team to tho peoryl© of Sew Zealand from end to end, for their hospitality throughout tho tour. HOBBS AND AUSTRALIA. (ißy Cable—Press Awocialion-Copyriljnt-) (Australian and N.Z. Cable AasociitioaJ LONDON, AprU 18. J. B. Hobbft, writing to the "Star," aayii he has paid hi* last viait to Austulia, not because he dislikes Australia. On tho oonI trnry, he is veiy iond of the country, toe people of which are gensronM-herj.'cd rpo*t»men, but he does not want to be absent fiom homo again for «■> long a period. Referring to the barracking incident in the Fifth Tost Match, he say* it is » p«y huch a lot was madv of the matter. "To the bvat of my recollection," he say*, '» few people in tho crowd laughed when I triixi to run after a ball reaching »ho boffli-dft-rv. I did not lake the slightest noMOt, because I naturally ftipjjoscd they did W» Jcnow I was injured. 1 must miy, after »U the fusa has been made, that 1 reteivooj *■ truly wonderful reception when 1 appeared. I never heard anything like it. For a taao I w« completely unnerved."