THE NEXT ENGLISH ELEVEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1120, 11 August 1882, Page 2

THE NEXT ENGLISH ELEVEN.

The “ Argue ” states that the English Eleven which will visit the Colonies next season under the captaincy of the Hon. Ivo Bligh has now heen finally selected, and will leave England in October by the s,s. Austral. The team is without doubt one of the strongest organisations of its kind that has ever left England, both the amateur and professional element being strongly represented. The following are the names of the 12 players forming the team and the counties to which they belong:—Hon. Ivo Bligh and E. F. S. Tylecote (Kent), G. B. Studd, C. T. Studd, G. F. Vernon, and C. F. H. Leslie (Middlesex), A. G. Steel and Barlow (Lancashire), W. W. Bead (Surrey), Barnes and Flowers (Nottingham), and Bates (Yorkshire), The team is a strong one in every department of tho game, having as bowlers Messrs A. G. Steel, the best amateur in England ; C. T. Studd, who bowled so well against the Australians ; Bates and Barlow, whose performances as members of Shaw’s professional team are familiar to all

cricketing colonists ; and Flowers and Barnes, both well-known professional bowlers, claiining allegiance both to Notts county and the Marylebone Club. In batting the team is wonderfully strong, as every member of it is a more than capable performer, and several are reckoned among the finest batsmen in England. C. T. Studd, who has on two separate occasions scored over 100 against tho Australian team now in England, is regarded as one of the finest batsrpen of the day; while C. F. H. Leslie, A. G. Steel, W. W. Read, G. F. Vernon, and G, ’ B. Studd are all brilliant performers. 1 The four professionals are also first- 1 olass batsmen, and altogether a danger- I ous quartette. E. F. S. Tylecote is ; the wicket-keeper of the team, apd the only one about whose coming there j appears to be any uncertainty, Should | ho be unable to undertake the tour, ! Pilling will supply his place,