CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 3058, 6 December 1872, Page 2

CRICKET.

THE ENGLISH ELEVEN IN AMERICA. The following remarks are from Baib/t Magazine ‘.—“we suppose we must say a word as to the doings of the English Eleven who arc starring it on the other side of the Atlantic; but we confess that there seems to us very little glory about the whole affair. If such an expedition is, under any circumstances, considered necessary or expedient, it is, at any rate, humiliating to think that the richest country in the world cannot send out eleven gentlemen without making a comparatively poor denendency pay for their expenses. As for the cricket, it is of course the poorest excuse for getting a cheap holiday and unbounded hospitality. There can be no real pleasure to a first-class cricketer in playing, day after day, against raw and half-trained antagonists, and m seeing them beaten as easily as if they were so many little boys from a village school When the eleven have had enough to eat and drink at the expense of their entertainers, they will, we suppose, return; and let us hope that the wnole affair, which reflects but little credit on the good taste or good judgment of its promoters, will then be forgotten as soon as possible.” It is to be hoped that the same opinion will not be formed respecting an eleven to visit the Colonies. AVERAGES ©F THE ENGLISH ELEVEN IH CANADA. The Mowing are from the London Sports-

to-morrow’s matches. The Dunedin Cricket Club have arranged a match for to-morrow afternoon between an elev. n of the Club and the officers of H.M.S. Dido, Messrs Turton, Collinson, and Hendley playing with the visitors. Both teams will lunch together at the Imperial Hotel, and then proceed to the ground. The following are the Club eleven ;—Messrs Allan, Fulton, Kettle, Holmes, Johnston, Macfarlnn, Morrison, Macdonnell, Reade, Muir, F. J., and White. The first eleven of the citizens will play an eleven chosen from the different banking establishments in town. A band will be present on the ground during the afternoon. The bank eleven are Messrs Whitehall, Cairns, Hellicar, Thomson, Tait, Vickerman, Beal, Holmden, Gillies, Fulton, Dignam, Jobson, and Winter. We understand that the Dunedin Club will send a team to Oamaru, to play on Boxing day ; and that a challenge from the Blueskin Club has been accepted, the match to come off on the local club ground on an early Saturday to be named.

man :— Matches. Innings. Total Kuna. Highest Innings. Average Games. !| c 3 ► a Qrace - 0 8 447 142 74.3 53,7 Harris 6 8 167 65 24.3 20.7 Hornby 6 8 133 39 22.1 16.5 Ottaway 6 7 115 45 19.1 16.3 Appleby 6 8 125 39 20.5 15.5 A. Lubbock 6 8 86 28 14.2 10.6 Francis 6 8 85 45 14.1 10.5 E. Lubbock 6 8 79 21 13.1 9.7 Pickering - 6 8 77 25 12.5 9.5 Rose ■ 6 8 69 22 11.3 8.5 Fitzgerald - 5 7 53 26 10.3 7.4 Hadow 4 6 24 17 6 4.6