1938 AUSTRALIAN XI.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 15

1938 AUSTRALIAN XI.

There will be several new faces in the Australian eleven in England in 1938, when they sit for their offlcial photograph at Boiiands. You can see their faces already peering out of the cricketing mists. One is R. H. Gregory, the yourtg Victorian who bats so cleverly and attractively, bowls a good • leg-break, and fields like one wHq likes It, Another is A. L. Hassett, the colt who came out trumps in Brisbane, and again in Sydney, with the bat An old head pn young shouiders, he wields * very straight Tbat and knows how to field. Another Ss Don Tallon, batsman of mercurial briliiance, and a 'keeper of some class. . Anothef is Jack Badcock, erstwhile Tasmanian, now Adelaldean, whose glamor has recently dulled a bit qgainst England, but who ls "the goods." Another is Ray Robinson, the Sydney batsman, who needs the temperipg that fine steel needs; a glorious fieldsmpn, too, And one other of the bat, who mqy go further than any of them, is Ihe boy, R. Beattie, from Neweastle. Here you have another youngster whose possibilities none cbn at presOpt fathom,— Sydney Referee.

— -j—-— well, and all the way through handl'ed his team with skfil, Tindii.l gave another finished display as wicket-keeper, and ln that position ha§ no superior in New Moaland at the present time, Once again the Wellington fiflding was very- good, the stopping ahd returning being up to the best standard. All through the match the wicket was too good to give much aid to the bpwlers, and tlie sqorlng Qf four separate centuries, one in each ' innings, showed how the conditipns favpured the bat.