CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1925, Page 3

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAIILE ASSOCIATION Bid TALK.. (Received this clay at 9.15 a.in.) LONDON'. January HI. The *'J«Jv<Miinj>- Nev.'s'-’ stales: "11, looks as though the game is up at -Adelaide, but wait until no get the .Kangaroo over here again. 'Won’t we make him skip and jump.” i HONORS TO ENG LISHMEX. (Received this day at 10.25 a.tn.l SYDNEY, January 22. The ’’Herald,” commenting on the cricket, says the wicket yesterday was at its worst when Australia hatted, hut was not by any means had enough to account for the complete failure of the Imtsmen. Kelleway carried out his bat alter lie had made 22 out of Hie ,*)5 runs scored for the last seven wickets. Ili‘ was the only one to show any capacity for handling the conditions. He watched the hall with scrupulous care, avoiding the more dangerous ones. Whenever possible he looked lor his runs by waiting for a short one to pull and overtossed one to hit. The making of twenty-two runs in the circumstances carried as much pleasure to the batsman as many innings of three or four times the size made under favourable conditions. The conditions of the play suited to a nicety the left-handed howlers of the English team, Woolley and Ivilner. In these two the team had the finest exponents of the day of left-hand howling on a rain spoilt pitch. It was a line perforuuiuce for them to finish off so suinmurly the Australian innings and one full of homely significance and suggestiveness. The wicket did not suit the Australian bosie "bowler, although it allowed plenty ol break. This was counterbalanced by the slow rise Ifroin the pitch and it was the opportunity to show what the home bowler’s would ho like on a rain spoilt pitch. It resulted in an impressive demonstration of the paucity of the slow left-hand ami the medium paced right-hand quality of our howling. On the whole days’ play we saw the Australian side easily out played, o\ou after making every allowance for having the worst of the wicket. The honours of the day undoubtedly belong to the Englishmen. LONDON. Jan. 21.

The following cable was drafted to Gilligau:—“A great gathering of I'.ritish sportsmen assembled to bid Inrewell to the All Blacks after a triumphant tour of the Mother Country, arc watching with the greatest admiration the magnificent struggle between great teams of fellow sportsmen drawn from the ends of the Empire/’