CRICKET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 440, 17 February 1912, Page 7

CRICKET.

The,visit of the Ohura players to Te Kuiti has been definitely fixed for Saturday, March 2nd. This will enable the local cricketers to get in a fair amount of practice before the match. Mr N. Wallace, the popular member and consistent performer of the ; Te Kuiti Club, leaves for Auckland | on Monday. When he returns he will i be eligible to play for the married j against the single. Mr Wallace j carries with him the heartiest good j wises of his club mates. The perfomance of the English team in the fourth test match set the seal on the fame of the touring players. With a total disregard for precedent the opening batsmen, j Hobbs and Rhodes, remained at the wickets until the score had reached over three hundred and forty runs. Hobbs got out when lie had made 17<S runs, but Rhodes remained until he j had notched 179 and established a j record. Quite a number of records ; were flippantly treated during the game, and when the Engilshmen finished their innings 559 runs had been scored. Obviously in such an innings honours in bowling will not bear mentiun. Tne Australian batting efforts resulted in39l for the first and 173 for the second innings. In j this case bowling honours are appar- I ent, Barnes, Foster and Douglas ap- | pearing to advantage. The ashes j consequently go once more to Eng- j land, and from appearances they are J likely to remain for a considerable j time Cricket in Australia can hardly j be said to be at a low ebb, but ic has ' apparently reached that stage when , the old champions are going off and the younger players have not yet reached had sufficient experience of j test cricket to till the breach satisfac- i toirly. In addition the unfortunate | discussion which has arisen in the Australian cricketing circles has pro- i bably had a bad effect. These in flu- ! ences, however, do not detract one j whit from the merit of the English- j men's performances. The team is well handled and possesses brilliant talent both in bowling and batting, while the fighting element, necessary to win big matches was strongly in evidence.