PRAISE FOR THE AUSTRALIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1896, Page 2

PRAISE FOR THE AUSTRALIANS.

The Chronicle, referring to tbe Australian cricketers, considers that their steady and even play proves them superior to an English eleven. Jones' withdrawal from the Sussex engagement, if voluntary on his part, is inexplicable. In bis letters to bis relatives in Adelaide, no mention ia made of any intention to change his plans, Eady, writing to friends in Launceston, explains bis frequent absence from the matches as due to his iniured arm, which was hurt whilst bowling. Melbourne, This Day. The Cricket Association has decided to take similar action to the other colonies in regard to the action of their members of the Australian team. Below are the matches played by tbe Australian team, with the results, te date :— Againßt Lord Sheffield's XI. ... Drawn „ Essex Won „ South of England ... Won „ An English XI. ... Drawn „ Yorkshire Won „ Lancashire Won „ Oxford University ... Won „ Gloucestershire ... Won „ An English XL ... Won „ M.C.C. & Ground ... Lost „ Yorkshire Drawn „ Midland Counties ... Lost „ England (Test match).,. Lost v Notts ftr Woo a Yorkshire „. «♦♦ Won „ North of England .„ Won n Hampshire ... *,« Won „ Players of England ... Won a Leicestershire Drawn „ England (Test match)... Won " Derbyshire ... ... Drawn n M.C.C & Ground ... Drawn* B Surrey Won „ Earl dela Ware's X1. ... Lost v Warwickshire * M ... Won 9 Kent • Won v England (Ttituatob) ... Lost a Sussex •* „, ... Won' j Surrey M M — Drawn