CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1921, Page 3

CRICKET.

UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. j AGAINST CAMBRIDGE. LONDON, June 3. Cambridge in the second innings made 128. Australia won by an innings and 14 runs. CAMBRIDGE Second Innings. Claude Ashton, (not out) 84 Gibson, h. Alai Icy 6 Marriott, c. Hendry, b. Mailey 9 Sundries 2 I Total 128 i ]fowling an lysis:—McDonald 0 for 44, Hendry 0 for 20, Ryder 2 for 25, Mailey 7 for 37 The match was finished in twenty minutes. The weather was bright and wicket fast, attendance small, when the not outs resumed of the Australians’ score. McDonald and Mailey directed the attack. Ashton showing preference for the former added ten, when he lost his partner, who was beaten all the way by Mailey. With the edition of five runs, Marriott was caught by Hendry off Mailey.' As Huber# y\shton was unable to play the innings terminated, fourteen runs short of Australia’s innings. Ashton played solidly for his thirty-four. He occupied the crease fifty-five minutes. Mailey completely puzzled Cambridge.

THE SECOND TEST,

LONDON, May 31. All England looks to Hobbs and Hearne to pull the side together in the Test match -at Lord’s. Hobbs condition'is uncertain. He is still resting. Hearne has played four innings, and thinks -lie is equal to the strain of a three-day match. Ha made (57 runs on Monday, and also howled for a lengthy period. The question of the captain ay calls more than ever for a decision. Some critics bluntly condemn Douglas’s leadership at Nottingham. There is a strong under-current of feeling that England is practically leaderles*. Certainly Douglas seemed uninspiring, and suffered greatly by contrast with Armstrong, who always dominated the game when in the field. At the-same time it must be remembered that Armstrong leads a real team, while England’s is comparatively fragmentary.

WARNER’S VIEWS.

LONDON, May 31. Warner, in the “Morning Post,” says that the test match was a debacle, but it is absurd to blame the Selection Committee, who were compelled to pick the side largely in tlie dark. .Moreover the programme was very badly arranged. In earlier years there had been sncli mutches as Gentlemen and Players versus Australians, to assist the selectors. In future it would be essential to bare trial games. They should reduce the programme of county matches a fid not play the first test nnti' the second week in June. “If f were in place of the committee,” lie says. ”my side at Lord’s would be Douglas, K might, Evans, Chapman, Hobbs, Hearne. Woolley, Hendron, Durston, Parkin and ijunitb (Warwickshire). I Hearne “could lx* used as a googly I bowler. Smith is a better batsman j than Strudwick. We can net afford to have such a tail as we had at Nottingham. Chapman is a glorious field. His activity and energy might galvanise the whole side.”