IMPRESSIVE FORM

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 11

IMPRESSIVE FORM

English Women’s Cricket Team’s Win AUCKLAND DEFEATED By Telegraph—Press Association. .Auckland, January 29. After a successful tour In Australia, the first English women's cricket team to visit New Zealand made a great impression at Eden Park to-day, in easily defeating the Auckland women's representatives on the first innings. The visitors arrived only this morning by the Wanganella from Sydney, and practically stepped straight on to the ground. Their exhibition, therefore, was all the more praiseworthy. The most impressive feature of the visiting team was its all-round cricket ability, which would have done credit to the best of men's teams. In batting, fielding and bowling, the side was equally impressive, and an enthusiastic attendance of about 2000 was quick to show its appreciation. Winning the toss, the English opening pair treated the spectators to as fine an exhibition of batting as seen at Eden Park for a long time. Snowball ami Maclagen soon took commuu 1 of what was by no menus a weak attack Tlie opening pair carried the score to 111 before a separation was effected, but after this the visitors did not fare so well, and with the total ai 200 for nine wickets, the innings was declared closed. Auckland Goes Cheaply. The Auckland batting was not up to the same standard as its bowling and fielding, and in the first innings the local side was disniisstd for 33 runs. At the stage four wickets were.down for no runs and six wickets for 4. The players seemed be suffering from “stage fright,” but there is no doubt the attack was strong. Auckland, with the attack not so strong, fared better in the second innings, losing five wickets for 64 runs. Maclagen, with six wickets for 17 runs in 13 overs, proved a thorn in the side of Auckland. Scores were England, 200 for nine, declared (Snowball 48, Maclagen 76). . Bowling: N. Browne) four for 99 ; E. Page, four for 43. Auckland, first innings, 33 (J. Page 11). Bowling: Maclagen, six for 17; Taylor, two for 1. Second innings, 64 for five wickets (Savin 18, J. Page 13, Browne 10). Bowling: Partridge, four for 39. HAD TIME Team’s Australian Tour By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 29. “We had a wonderful time in Australia.” said Miss Betty Archdale,, the captain of tlie English women's cricket team, which arrived this morning, and opened their Dominion tour with a match against Auckland. The captain is a student of international law r at London, and several of tlie party of fifteen are games mistresses at various colleges. The team was chosen by the English Women’s Cricket Association from all parts of England, in which there were a hundred clubs, and left England six months ago. Miss Archdale said that in Australia the antipathy which men are supposed to feel toward women cricketers was noticeably absent. “We do not play with men,” she said, “or strive in any way to emulate them, but they have helped us wonderfully in every possible way. We are not touring for the Ashes but to play Test cricket We are very much against trophies of any sort.” The visitors, who are individually bearing the expenses of tlie tour, will spend about a month in New Zealand.