OUR CRICKETERS
THE score of nine wickets for 586 runs (on new fields and under new conditions) and individual scores of 101, 119 and 188, are no small achievement for the New Zealand Eleven, even though recorded against a “country house” team. “Dacre and Mills were both dazzling and made the bowling look impotent,” says the cabl.ed account of the match. This should not be taken with a too-generous appreciation, however, for the message adds that their opponents were not bowlers of the first rank. Later, they will meet the first-rankers, and it will be easier then to gauge the real standard of New Zealand’s batsmen. Too much should not be hoped for on the figures of this match, though it resulted in a draw decidedly favourable to the New Zealand team; defeats‘against more formidable teams will then not be so disappointing, while sterling victories, should they come about, will be the more pleasing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 8
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154OUR CRICKETERS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 8
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