CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1925, Page 2

CRICKET.

LORI) HAWICK AGAIN. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION COLOMBO, Feb. Lord Hawke has arrived. Interviewed on the. question of professionals captaining Kuglish test teams, he saiu that no remarks made by him had been directed against professionals as such. What he had meant was that it would be a laid day for Kuglish cricket :f no amateur could be found good enough to captain an Kuglish side. Lord Hawke added that it took I mre than a great cricketer io make a good captain. He did not think that the series of matches between gentlemen and players had ever unearthed a great professional skipper. After strongly criticising Park n’x effusion in the press Lord Hawke s-iid : “Giiligan is a line sportsman who has won wide popularity for himself and for the Kuglish in Australia, which is more important than the mere winning of matches. Wo cannot criticise his methods and tactics from a distance, of 'many thousands ol* miles, but 1 would rather England had a sportsman like Giiligan for a captain and have lost than that she should merely have played to win.”

ENGLAND V. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, February 10. England defeated Victoria by an in nings and 271 runs. VICTORIAN TOFU OF N.Z. MELBOURNE, February 10. Atkinson and Thomson have been selected for the Victorian cricket tour of New Zealand m place ol Ironmonger and Sehnudcr. who are unable to go. Ryder and Ponsford will join the team in New Zealand, alter the fifth test. FOURTH TEST MATCH. MELBOURNE. February 10. The Australian team selected for the fourth test match, commencing at Melbourne on Friday is as follows:—Collins (captain), Bardsley. A. Richardson. Andrews. Taylor, Ponsford. Ryder. Kcllewav, Oldfield. M.uiley and Gregory with V. Richardson as 12th man.