CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 12

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a. . -'Disgusttd-.Wit&.'tki. ppWormaiicb_.x>f • Otago a&ainst . Slip'" 1 ... writes:—At .various time's it h'a's been sug- : gested to: do away withth% fiSts : and go in for a thofough system of field practice with-, ■v-v ■, out trimf&ings,. MA thfe hidfebb'uiia method's :■vf must -be .'adhered the , mttsv be ,- . »pared as much running.abotit f as possible,. -■ ■■, and the practice ttiade as.wntn. 'of a ' 'jJibmc ' , ' as it can Veil tfe. All ttas TOnlb rffir onbkfetftrs are Aado to look,-ridiculous in tho .ey.es of tho whole Dominion, -~ ■: ■ • Very f<Sw teams . have nifide over 400 runs ■ . in each ihnings. 6f ,i> fflaton: tt "friiS Uttt accomplished ft AnstrMii by - New South /• - . -Wales, ag&inst Steddiirt's -E'econd team, with 415 and 074. However, Vibtona has jdone ■ it in two %4a's6ils ih 'A&bSibn at tnb .'Sy'dilbJ' ground, h&Ving made 402 and .511 last season, ;OS. M'k ond 468 SSi'd '4S? & big KKrfflg; 6 The Shle'ld tte Slaw stomtdt l?08-d h&Vc been won b Nf ' ' Sontn WmcS'irith'3 \rtfts ifta 1 yefc'at-, Bo\iUi r.vAusteilia being second with: 2. wins - and 2. defiats, and Victoria: next: with 1 win and 3 defeats. On the Sydney form Victoria, is •'' : . a bbiifcbr side than South Australia-, whb, •.: . • nevfeftheless, won both matches agjito'st Vi.c 1 -i; ■tona. New South .Wales has won the shield : v .;. -ten- times, ■ Victoria six timce, . and - South " ' 'Austeilia once. -New South WultS hife >)ro}i. .v' it ift keven-of the. last tho<64mpetition.was started in 1892 by.Lord. I gheffifild donating 100 guineas for- tho pnr- . chaie of a trophy, New South Wales has.won " 47 ffid-fost 22 Wi-ttnte, Victoria wfen 34 aVid >v. lost and •Sbtitll itistWlii Avbii 20 and lost 44. - That thS wicteta fet the Sidney Ciicket : .Grotitod must bo about tn© best in tho .world is ckkr by the phenomenal scores made thero : in a cricket. ■ Tho : world's... seven highfeAt aggregates in fir6t-class cribket have beeii oompued there, viz.\, -1911', .1739, -1615, 1553 i 1541, and 1514. In fo'nr of these i - t matches -English teams figured, t-:.-'. In ah .unrestrained . denouncement -of plav, "Long Slip," in the, "Otago 1 Wit&fefes." declares that wretched batting S • »nd itill "frbrtb fiSldifig lost JOtiffo tnS mMta agaiJkst Canterbury. "That;", no continues, ■■ -"is wie first and Jast ward lh erplanation of the dbbabfe, fbr it was from lh Otaga viewpoint. Otago has rarely, if ever, ys:' a' worse- Viftdet tech fftfotarabfo ' '■' sonditkms. It is an appalling fact that.moro runs Were actually lost by fielding ' thail teero made 4ith t-hb bit. - This melA is almost infcfedibie, but tihfortuTi atbly- . • 'it is too truCi Take it as.you will it was a j exhibition-of batting.'and-fielding by, i'X'! y/£". side which, while makingno pretence to boa i-: -:..; ,-- . clevtn, mclud&d the. pifck of Otago ?, . fcricfcbters. When a teaTi lbstes nlote runs m l-r:-. -:j - tho field thih ih mikfes with- bat--it .is —:-tim<i io consider whsthfer 80ch 'a Side shduld rr-■ j aot "dropped altogglmr-. It is id very i.i'l ; trntn a jiitoablo spedtaxSle ,to -gefe- & t-e&lii of ;. 7 and rigoroVis cricketers, ldsihg a match on k "dropped catch"—or, a tßultr- .. . tude :if "dr6oped -catcues." : And who js to i.'/' .: 1 , blante for :-thb-'-fcHbkeWrt tn4iA-. fi'? >" wtro like - the: "Jiifihiii of v thd gaße 1 ' with&'dt Its W rk. SihSb ,hb first played in -Sheffield Shibld enckct (January, • 189o), S«oolo, thb pbse&t • . NoV Sottth Wales-captain-, has compiled 4896 ' runs at an average of 68 per innings.. In those he has mado 200 runs or more in one innings on five occasions.- He is a veritable Colossus St the bat. It is strange, (siys, thb u- i r ,:-Sydney "Kfeferse") that whilb he wiSniiands :■ phenomenal success, against Anstrahan /bowl- , jng, M.A.N. :has;done little «omparable (with, w these deeds .agaiAst Eftglish IjbWlmg- oft iAus,i' : . tralian wicketa. He has mado but ■ one century, viz., 133, in tho first Test match with .-.'-V. •'Warner's team.- - For .New South Wales p. -.:-; - ■;■ RgSiasfc' -Efiglish tb&ttfe-life lla%- beea .a mhgit- - ffarly modfest perforiier for one of such con- ' spicuous powers, his efforts, against the two 1 Jast English teams bbing repr&se&ted by 3, [ 16» 36, 11, 1, and 2.