What the Figures Show

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 14

What the Figures Show

The following figures have an interesting bearing on the selection of the team: BATTING

VETERANS WHO MISSED Among former Plunket Shield representatives three have shown good form this season, but missed the selector’s G. Smith has secured 23 wickets at an average of 14.8, and has a batting average of 40.3 for six innings W. Brooke-Smith has a batting average of 49 for four innings, and E. Horspool 39.1 for seven innings.

For their Own Particular Job In his foreword to Herbert Slrudwiek's ‘ Twenty Five Years Behind the Stumps,” Charles Platt, the English cricketer, gives it as his opinion that a captain or a. wicket keeper for any team should be selected on his own special qualities for that particular job. ’’England has possessed many fine batsmen who could not bowl or field, and many great bowlers who could not bat, but it seems as though the authorities have yet to realise that a captain and a wicket keeper should b" chosen in a similar manner.” The Auckland selectors will no doubt be * onfronted by several problems which i '-■uld t>« simplified by the application «l the above test.

Not "Weir, A. F Cooper, I. W. .. Bowley, E. H. Inn 4 4 6 out. H.S. Tl. Av. 1 So 192 64.0 0 S6 246 61.5 Gillespie. H. L>. .. 0 93 Dacre, C. C. Mills. J. E 2 0 103 0 44 127 42.3 Anthony, A. H. .. 6 Player. A. S. .. 5 0 57 Garrard. D. R. .. 6 0 75 Rowntree, R. W. W illiams, A. 7 1 20 38 6.3 En lergencies eir, G. L. 4 Hendy, W 8 1 101* Matheaon, A. 31. 6 0 111 Scott. A. H. 5 3 14 44 22.0 •Signifies not out. BOWLING Mills 3\ kts 6 Williams 360 Anthony 29 11.4 Garrard . 22 Player .. .. .. . 17 Bowley 17 299 Dacre 6 138 Weir, A. L*. ,. . 0 30.7 Err ergen Weir, G. L. .. . 25 26S Stott Aiatheson 13 301 23.1