ENGLISH CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 2

ENGLISH CRICKET

GOOD TEAM COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. PROSPECTS AGAINST THE - AUSTRALIANS. “England will have to find some howlers. Maurice i Tate has become stale, though the winter’s rest may do him a lot of good. Larwood, since his injury, seems a little lincdHain; though he may come again. The'English baiting will be very strong. These opinions upon England’s chances against Australia in the Test matches this season were expressed yesterday ftby J. Newman, the famopß Hampshire professional, who returned to the Dominion by the Corinthic ip order to enter upon his third term as coach to the Canterbury Cricket Association.

Newman himself had bad luck in England last sealson,’as shortly. afte,rhis return from, New Zealand he contracted influenza, which so affected his form that for the first time for several years past he failed to score his thousand runs and take a hundred wickets for Hampshire in'the county championship'. competition. Despite his ill-health lie aggregated 1329 runs at an average of 29.53'per innings and captured 1 99 wickets at a cost of 31.32 runs' per wicket! ' d

“A PRETTY STRONG SIDE.” “A pretty strong side,” was Newman’s verdict when, asked as, to the strength ’of'fim English team which is to visit j New, Zealand this season.' “What they Jack is a ipediumrpaced bowler. They have four fast bowlers m Nichols,, Allom, Worthington and Barrett. , . /. 1 < ■

“In Earle and Barrett the team will have two of finest natural hit-, ters England has had for. many years,, and this pair should delight New Zealand crowds. In: Duleepsinhji Woolley they will be, able to-'show of the finest' stroke players one; coujd ■ wish, to see; their strokes are magh|y: ficent.- ''v - , “Ted Bowley, who well in New form this season 'really well. JK that Maurice ; ' Tati r > Jbe|p so deadly for Sussex for the past “fM years that Bowley has hot. been 'hess of more as the fine slow’ howlet proved himself to be last season. "$. ■ “Cornford,” who keeps wickets ijto Tate, is, on his day, as fine' a wick|sr beeper as England and Worthington and, Nichols are two very fine all-round cricketers indeed. .' v“Da'wson and Legge are two ideal types of amateur player's 'who play what is known as public'school cricket, in which forward play is predominant.

FIGHTS FOR THE ASHES.

Reverting to England’s chances in the forthcoming Test matches against Australia 'in England. ( Newman emphasised England’s need for howlers; “The type of' stuff bowled by ' Freeman, who is one of our stock fesfc match bowlers,” he said, “seems to have no terrors for Australian batsmen. It is quite possible that. White may again prove our most... successful bowler in the’ Tests,- as his flight will be even more difficult in England than it was in Australia, and this,;irueonj unction with his marvellous length; may have the Australians ‘guessing again. , . ’ ; . ! “Jack Hobbs is practically certain to play again.; He has been inra&gnVficent form 'this season 7 , ; and the, 1 with Woolley and Hammond, will . form the nucleus of a very strong batting side. It is hoped that jardipe will'be back in time for 7 the\ Tests, j : “What England really wants, in case Larwood cannot pome back, is a bowler of pacq, - and this is exactly what we do not possess at present. We have also to discover a. slow left-hander to take ... the place of . Wilfred Rhodes. A possible Test match bowl*, er, whol am justified in .saying has tremendous, possibilities, is Voce, the Notts left-hander, who, like George Hirst, can adapt his bowling to all types of rwickets. On a fast wicket,, he can bow], really fast; while on a mod-erate-paced pitch, he .can moderate his pace and spin the ball. At the end of this season, J. W. Hearne came back to his. very best form, and it he can re-produce this next season he cannot -be kept out of the English eleven. Hearne does not enjoy good health, but when fit. and well he .is one of England’s outstanding players. Pat.,y Hendren is another who may retain his place in the English team.”

ANOTHER SUSSEX COACH. A. F. Wensley, the well-known Snsse professional, and a regular member of the Sussex eleven, arrived by the Oorinthic yesterday, to act as. coach to the Auckland Cricket Association, in succession to E. H. Bowley, his Sussex County team-mate. “Wensley, one of the regular members and mainstays of the eleven;,” reports “Wisden” for 1929,” “scored more runs than before with a better average. Unlike J. Parks, who lost liis skill with the ball, Wensley retained his bowling efficiency, and held bis own as one of the best all-rounders in the county, without quite attaining to the standard of Tate and Bowlev.” Wensley came eighth in the Sussex batting averages last season, aggregating 1334 runs at an average of 27.79 runs per innings, and came seventh in the bowling averages, with 7 5 wickets at a cost of 24C6 runs an an average of 32.08 runs per wicket.