CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 2

CRICKET.

QUEENSLAND V. NEW SDUTH . WALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Brisbane, April 1. New South Wales in their second innings lost eight wickets for 158 runs, and declared the innings closed —Evers 35, Pyke 31. Queensland in their second innings lost eight wickets for 206 runs — Morgan 42, Patrick 37, Chapman (not out) 22, Byrne (not out) 20. The match was drawn.

The Melbourne Leader has the following on the selection of Carter as second wicket-keeper for the Australian team to visit England this year : “ That he .is a marvellously clever wicket-keeper may he accepted as a fact incapable of refutation. One of his recent performances was standing up to Marsh on a bad wicket and dismissing four of the five batsmen who were disposed of—not at short -stop, hut close to the stumps. Every experienced cricketer in Sydney declares him to be a wonder; not only the whole of the active players, but men like Bannecman, Garrett, Arthur Gregory, and others, whose long practical experience constitutes them good judges. Cricketers who play every Saturday with Carter, and those who play against him, are equally unanimous as to his capability, and there is one authority whose opinion will perhaps have still greater weight with the cricket-loving public of South Australia and Victoria, and satisfy them that no mistake has been made in selecting Carter. C. H. Ross, late honorary treasurer of the Melbourne Cricket Club, captain of the M.M.C. team and one of .Victoria’s best and most experienced wicket-keepers, has for some time resided in Sydney, where he has watched the club cricket keenly, and his unreserved opinion is that Carter is the best wicket-keeper at present in Australia. Without any reflection on sturdy Jim Kelly, Ross, on being asked his opinion, gave it to the effect that ‘ if Carter goes Home as second wicket-keeper, he will rome hack as first !’ I may add that Carter is a fair bat, is full of zeal and energy, and though it has no hearing upon iiis ability as- a cricketer, it may interest cricketers and supporters of the game to know that lie matriculated when he was thirteen years old.”