PRESS COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 21 December 1894, Page 2

PRESS COMMENTS.

Sydney, This Day. The Sydney Morning Herald says that whatever else may be said it is safe to affirm that to every Australian the result was a genuine disappointment and to all Englishmen an agreeable surprise. It thinks that the brilliancy in batting was on the side of the Australians, and seldom has batting been seen here like that of Giffen and Gregory. The Englishman at the wickets showed steadiness and tenacity beyond all praise, but it certainly cannot be said that in batting they showed any superiority over the Australians. As to the bowling, it is generally acknowledged the Englishman had the advantage, yet it can hardly bo said that thoir bowling was superior to that of Giffen and Turner. In the matter of fielding the display of the Australians was inferior and sometimes discreditable. Altogether 62,000 witnessed the match, and the gate receipts were £3000. Stoddart's men consider they won the match by batmanship and the weather. The match was the longest ever played and the runs scored (1514) is a record. The Daily Telegraph eulogises the Englishmen for their uphill game, and declares they are fully entitled to the victory as luck never fayored them until yesterday, and considers the Englishmen a better all-round team than Australia has pat in the field. As batsman, bowlers, and fieldsmen they are more consistently good than the Australians. It considers Giffen ahead of any of the English team as a batsman and bowler, and in some respects as a fieldsman and all round probably he has no equal in the world, London. December 20. The Chronicle (writing before the result of the cricket match was known) considers that Stoddart's team by their fine batting in the second innings has redeemed their honour, taking into account the fact that they had a worse wicket to play on than the Australians. The Chronicle thinks their play was quite equal to that of the Colonials.