CRICKET
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) TEST CRICKET PROSPECTS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m 1 t SYDNEY, Dee. 21. Bean .formerly Secretary of the \ ietorian Cricket Assoeiatin. on bis re- ] turn from England, said the English team that would visit Australia next
year, would probably he very strong in batting but good bowlers were scarce. Nevertheless there would be a sufficiently strong body of men to make the next test team a tough proposition for Australia. Chapman would most likely be captain. Bean expressed the opinion that daylight saving in England had given a great fillip to the game. Cricket was played wherever there was a vacant piece of land.
CAPETOWN. Dec. 20. U Benoni in a, two-day match. South African Eleven in the Ist. innings made 86. Hammond took 6 for 3_. Marvlebone made 253 for 6 wickets (lloimes not out 112, Hammond 61). AUCKLAND. Dee. 21. At luncheon in the Heathcote Williams Shield Cricket Challenge holders (Auckland Grammar School) had scored 310 for two.' wickets against Napier Boys’ High School (Cashmore HO, White-law 127. McKean not' out IT, Fmser not out 21, extras 13), The opening wicket put on 213.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1927, Page 3
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