Cricket Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 77, 5 April 1904, Page 2

Cricket Notes.

(By Cover Point.) Tlit" Australian paipcrs are apparently faking the many \ iclories of Warner's team with a bad grace, and It is amusing to read the excuses ottered for tile defeat or the various Australian teams. A contingent of New Zealand cricketers left Wellington lo see tlie last test and one Wellington oracle says, " I lam firmly of opinion that had the weather and the wickets been good, the 'ashes' would have remained in Australia." Would they ? As far as 1 can gather, whenever the English team had a good wickvt to bat on the}' made far more use of it uhan the Australians. In fact, 1 give it as my humble •opinion that Warner's was pre-eminently a dashing batting team, and tlie Australians would have retfiiired considerable luck to ■have lopped the 570 scored by the visitors in one of the tests. And as to bowling. Ilrauml was always in form on u good wicket. However, the tour is finished, and the facd remains that the M.C.C. team have a record tour to their credit, ami are now well on their way to the Old Country, and have to go into harness at onoo, as the county matches start on May 2.

An Australian team visits the Motherland in 1905, anil I anticipate its constitution will Include at least four new names to tost cricket.

As football will lie starting shortly, it is time the Inglewood team played oil' its fixture with the Rovers. There was same talk of a Tarairaki cricket team visiting Auckland this season. Auckland sent a team hero last season, and received a sound drubbing. I should much like to see the match eventuate, as I have an idea at least two of our local bowlers would do well on a turf wicket. A very good team could be chosen to rcpivsent Taranuki. A representative team would be: Fruiik Robertson, Hassell Lash, Whittlo. Scholfield, Gudgeon' Ck-gg, SkcKon, Knight, Uraund, and •Jhott. I have confined mv names to the northern mid entirely An enjoyable game was played on i'ridny_ between .Mewlon Kinrr's staff M"l the Herald C 1,,,, ■sis" ain'a«iwd a total of ay ,( which number Weston scored 16. Cutin*! took eight wickets for 0 runs and "pa-d" the printers to »„ alarming point. Thc aMUm knocked up at, Toi „ woodward be!f S 0 "? IW ° for H - »">' Outfield wH, , m I hl m,Bels " '''Glared '»- nth five w.r.Ns Mown Hor 71 In thwr second Innings, unci' the auctioneers scored Uie mt-esR-u-v with the loss of live wicket's.' '""' S