HOBBS AGAIN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 277, 18 July 1932, Page 3

HOBBS AGAIN

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artistic century LACK OF BOWLERS IS WORRYING ENGLISH SELECTORS PROBABLE CANDIDATES

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

V LONDON, Saturday. While thfe selectors in the pavilion were choosing the nucleus of the side for the Australian tour Hobbs (the man they were probably most anxious to have) was making -an artistic century, getting the Players out of dan- j ger. He played all the bowling, I some of which was really good, with such ease and craftsmanship for five hours that it was difficult to believe he had reached the evening of his cricket eareer. Incidentally, he scored his sixteenth critury in Gentlemen v. Players matches, breaking Dr. W. G. Grace's record. Allen was again good; he dismissed Woolley and Hammond with splendid balls. While the official choices are all obvious, it is reasonably certain that the other four — Wyatt, Robjns, Biown and Voce — will also go. The selection being confined to batsmen and wicketkeepers, indicates that bowling is worrying the selectors. Larwood showed a good patch 01 foim at Lords, but, wh.Te of fair speed, generally lacked real hostility

— indeed, he compared unfavourably v/ith Allen. The latter was unable to reach Larwood's top speed, but he can bowl for longer stretches, sometimes with considerably more devil. The match has enhaneed his prospects for the Australia tour, as a support, not as a rival, to Larwood, but he has turned the scales against Paynter and Hendren, and left Tate's inclusion doubtful. Tate is not now aehieving his old skip froln the pitch. If, as there is strong reason to believe, both Robins and Brown will go, Peebles will probably be omitted. Close observers say he has never reproduced his 1930 form. against the Australians, having lost command of his spin.