CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 3744, 22 February 1875, Page 3

CRICKET.

To the Editor. Sir,—l notice that the Match Committee has posted a list of fifteen persons, from which the club’s team to play against the Ziugavi eleven is to be chosen. Surely the committee are .joking, as the absence of several names—men who have been tried and found good and tine—arc missing. If the local cloven is to be chosen only from the mimes published I regret to say that I, in common with mauv others, think a certain amount of partiality is shown, or else that the match conmdttee unwittingly been “worked.’' As one nho Las for many years taken a groat interest in the game, and also in the different players, whom ! have attentively watche i, permit mo (for what my remarks aie worth) to observe that amonert the proposed I)nuo« unites one- ] 'layer appears to have been clicsen on account of the lamentahlo display he made in the recent Interprovincid cricket match ; another because he has broken down, and, in five casts out of six, requires a substitute to run for him; two others, because social enjoyment (?) has prevented them from showing up this season, (bee the result in Canterbury match). Another, because he is an untried colt (although I am pleased to say a promising one), hut not good or experienced enough to play against old players; another, because he seldom puts in an appearance at practice ; and lastly, another who cannot play this season “a small bit.” I am told by “one who ought to know ” tint the fifteen have been chosen by one only of the Match Committee, the other two subsequentlv consenting. If this is so, the sooner th“* honorary members and the public generally withdraw their ruppert from cricket too be', ter. In the nor:united fifteen, th-ro are not live accent fieldsmen. biunproa is i list-ran ( dark is good; but where have we a good third ? I here is .something radically wrong when wc nnu the D.C.C., arter being in existence twelve yeais, said out an eleven to be laughed at (,-.-' they were in Christchurch) for not known. - how to cover or even return a ball, I trim 1 -t'm. Match Committee will not forget themselves and rum the Club. -1 am, &c. A Regular Attendant on’the Groi'-d Dunedin, February 22. ' ’