Cricket.

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 February 1901, Page 16

Cricket.

Clom Hill's average tins season is 103 33 for six completed innings m intercolonial matches. Harry Trott captained a second team of Victoria against Tasmania the other day- making 17 and 15 with the bat, and .securing averages of hve wicket*, for 101 and three for 76 with the ball. Victoria won by five wickets. On the throwing question, Mi. Hornby, former!- captain of the Lancashire cricket team, states that lie never saw Mold throw in his life, and, if he has his way, Lancashire will play Mold, letting the umpires have the privilege of no-balling him if Ins deliveries do not satisfy them as to fairness.

The Mplbouinc Cncket Club's ground uas established in 18.")4 and since that time £10."), 000 has born spent in nnpj moments The Svdnov Cricket Club's ground uas established in 18/<>, ,nid tho authorities there rmo improved it at an expenditure of £127,700 Short-slip" is of the opinion that the Melbourne giound was the fust-made cnoket aiea in Australia It is reported that the North and South Island match is to be played at Cluifatchurch, at Kaster tune. Surely tins is not correct, for with Wellington and Hawko's Bay playing each other at the same tune, the chances of a Nortli Island team being got together are vei% remote indeed Peihap.s the h\ine of a date for tho match is an indication fo whomsoever pares to know that the New Zealand Cricket Council is not dead but lather that it has just awakened fiom deep One cannot help wondenng whet hoi theie is hkelv to be any moie ciicket in Wellington this season First one tinng, and then anothoi , has been happening on a Satuid.iv, and it is now reported that vet anothoi da\ is to be taken from the cricketers the Basin Reserve bom" lequired foi the reception of the Indian troops All things consideied it would peihaps be advisable if the powers that be declared the pi esent cricket season closed as fai as cup matches are concerned Kxperto Crede" writes— "Jim Jones could have very easily topped another century at the Basin on Wednesday had he chosen to bustle himself before he retired for eighty-seven runs to his credit against the Unions Beyond a doubt he is the most consistent scorer in Wellington and it is a mystery to the devotees of ciicket that he is scarcoK ever selected to lenresent senior cricket for Wellington Ho certainly casts in the -shade any of the championship olavers by his thoroughly o-ood all-round battina, when considering how well he has played for several seasons past, let whatever may be said to the contrary by the cognoscenti."