IS CONSISTENT

NZ Truth, Issue 1261, 30 January 1930, Page 12

IS CONSISTENT

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) C. G. Crawford, the . St. Albans skipper, has been. a model of consistency m Christchurch cricket this season and it. is apparent that his temporary loss of form last season has tabooed him for anything better than club cricket. HIS 104 not out and 60 on consecutive Saturdays has brought his batting average up . well over the forties for the season and the 60 would, have been considerably added to had he not been "submarined" by a ball which never rose six inches. ; Crawford's footwork is as good as any batsman's m the province, and when batting at; the top of his form he has a variety of entertaining strokes. J. L. Kerr, the ex- Wanganui player, is a bright, star. iii,. they Christchurch West side, and is.. the coming cricketer of the province. "It is rather strange that the selector overlooked him until he wanted a twelfth man for the northern tour. Kerr proved on tour and si^ce that he Is miles ahead of many' of those selected before him. He just missed : Inclusion m the second Test team against the Englishmen and he has only to maintain his present rate of progress to be a certainty for the English trip next year. Varying fortunes have come Neil Dorreen's way this season, but last Saturday he knocked up a neat hundred m an hour and ten minutes for St. Albans and only the drawing of stumps stopped him from making a bigger score. Neil's cricket Is something like his football — go for it all the time — and he punctuated solid driving with ten fours and four hits right over th'e fence, y lan Cromb's last two performances as a bowler should convince him that control of the ball and accuracy m length are worth more than speed. Four for thirteen and f our for sixteen are his latest figures, and all these wickets were gained as the result of slowing up his flight. . " •' Old Collegians have a reliable rungetter m C. J. Jackman, who also keeps wickets well. Jackman seldom faiis to gather m a twenty or a thirty and has recently tided the side over some very thin times.