CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 5

CRICKET

THp M.C.C. TEIAM IN AUSTRALIA

SUTCLIFFE’S FINE' RECORD

Australian Press Association.)

* ADELAIDE, November 3. Eight of the M.C.O. cricket tourists now in Australia have yet to appear- against that country in a test match. Of those who have played Sutcliffe and Hammond l have (proved the most phenomenal run-getters England has ever put into the test (arena.Sutcliffe has an average of 73.96 and Hammond 71.23. The figures are truly remarkable, land are. approached even by ' Jack Hobbs, whose- average of 54.28 is totally eclipsed. Sutcliffe will also pass the 2000 mark on .the tour as he needs only four more runs. Hobbs is the only other Englishman to pass this, his total being 36361 Clem Hill heads the Australian tost batting 'aggregate with 2660. Hammond also has a chance of topping 2COO on the present tour, hut he still requires the large total of- 790 runs. . . Tate heads the howlers, -and needs 17 wickets to complete his hundred

victims. R. Peel, S. F. Barnes and W. Rhodes (England), and Turner, _ VTrumper, M. A. Noble and Griffen (Australia.), are thei only ones so far who have secured 1 <v ) wickets in test cricket. •Sutcliffe shares with Macartney the honour of having made a century m three successive trist matches. In two successive test matches at Kensington Oval, London, he made the same score, 161, while four years later lie again scored that mincer. Since 1924, he lias scored Seven centuries in tests. What a record 1