BRITISH TEST TEAM

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1931, Page 7

BRITISH TEST TEAM

PLAYERS’ RECORDS. OTHER LIKELY CANDIDATES Nino English cricketers are named in llit' fit hit's as probable mein..ers til liie English 'lost t'lovon. They form the majority of ;i solid loam, but when the selectors’ decision is annoumed oiTieiuL iy, it may 'lie I'oimd that there are n low alterations.

Kor instance, it is scarcely likely that 11. Larwood, the Notts last howler, will find a place on the English side after his entire and utter failure against, the Australians in England last sa.son. In the lirst Test against the Australians last season, the Notts speed merchant secured one for 12 and one .for Ho was dropped for the second Test at Lord’s but was brought into the English team again for the third Test at Leeds, when the best be could do was one for 139 off 33 overs. Omitted from the fourth Test, Larwood was again included for the fifth and deciding Test at the Oval, and was flailed by the Australian batsmen to the tun,~ of one wicket for 132 runs off 48 overs.

T). ft. Jardine is mentioned as the nrobable captain, but this seems a long cast. Many will consider that Percy Chapman, of Kent, is the rightful cricket leader of English teams. Was bo not out here with the M.O.C. team in 1923, and is lie not Torn Lowry's brother-in-law? P, G. Ft. Fonder, the Surrey captain last year, would make a better captain for England than .Jardine. who only played in four matches for Surrey last season. 1. A. 11. Peebles.—No English team would be complete without lan Peebles, the youlblid .Middlesex googly bowler who beaded the bowling averags for bis county last, season with I I wickets for 180 runs, at tile good average of 10.90 Brought into the English team for the liisl time in the fourth Test match against the Australians last, season. Peebles covered liismeif with glory by getting rid of the Australian dragon Don Bradman; for 14 runs.

W. 11. Hammond without question is the best all-round player in England today. For years past, the Gloucester professional lia.s been the mainstay of the Gloucestershire county eleven. Tie beaded the hatting averages for his county last season with an aggregate of 1108, at an average of .10.78, and played in all five Test matches against the Australians.

11. Sutcliffe, Yorkshire professional, has proved himself one of the greatest batsmen Kngland has produced. In the Test nia 1 eiies against Australia, last season lie scored 29 and ijfc' (retired hurt) iii the first ; ;52 anti 28 not out in the third; 71 in the fourth; and 161 and o 4 in the fifth. The Netv Zealanders will heave a big sigh of relief when they see the Yorkshiveman’s broad back on the way to the pavilion in the Test nia tell at Lord’s

L. Anuw will surprise no one if ho wears the gloves in forthcoming Tost matches for England. The Kent professional is every hit as good a wicketkeeper at Duckworth who gave a poor display in the lift.li Test against the Australians at the Oval last season, and the Kent man who scored 1191 inns for his county last season, is an infinitely better batsman than Duckwort !i. 11. Verity is another likely selection. The youthful Yorkshire professional howler—fairly tall, strongly built, aim possessed of a happy temperament—?s a slow left-hander who has both length ami spin at his command, and can also send down a faster hall that runs on iti.s arm. Employing these wiles, lie headed the Yorkshire county howling averages last season, with 52 wickets for <391 runs, at the good average of I 1.11 per wicket. A. 11. B.ikewcll, the Northamptonshire professional, probably will bo capped lor England. Quick on lus feet and essentially an attacking batsman, .bakewell who is 23 years oi age, came into tho county eleven haif'way through the 1928 .season, and in the following year headed the halting averages witn 14&3 runs at an average of -8, while last summer he hit up iti.l.7 runs, and again iieadcd■ the Northants aveiages with 31. (1. I). Kemp-Welch, the Cambridge captain will be lucky if he gets a place in the England eleven against the .Yew Zealanders, as he only scored -131) i mis for the University last season. it more likely that the ‘lndian Prn.ce, K. 8. Duleopsinhji, who scored 173 and -18 in the second Test- against the Australians last season, 35 and 10 in the third Test, 5+ in tlm fourth To t, and 50 and 111 in the lil'tli Test, will ho one. of the eleven. Another man who should he on tho England side in the Tost this im mb is H. W. V. Hollins, of Middlesex, who scored 50 not out and -I, and took four for 51 and throe lor SI in the first Test against- the Australians last season. and made 5 and 11 not out, and 1 took one for 172 and two for 31 in tin sec'-nd Test.