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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 173, 20 January 1912, Page 7

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ENGLISH TEAM'S TOUR. RESULTS. Nov. 10 and following days—v. South Australia at Adelaide, won by an innings and 197 runs. (England 563 and South Australia 141 and 228). Nav. 17 and following days —v. Victoria, at Melbourne, won by 49 runs (England 318 and 234, Victoria 274 and 229). ' Nov. 24 and following days—v. New South Wales., at Sydney, abandoned •wing to rain (England 238, N.S.W. eight wickets for 198). Dec, 1 and following days—v. Queensland, at Brisbane, won by 7 wickets (England 275 and 140' for 3 wickets, Brisbane 296 and 124). Dec, 5 and 6 —v. Toowoomba, at Toewoomfba, won by an inniigs and 134 runs (England 340 for 6 wickets, Toowoomba 96 and 110). December 8 and following days—v. Australian Eleven, at Brisbane, drawn England 267 and 279 for four wickets; Australia 347). Dec. 15 and following days—v. AUSTRALIA, lost by 146 runs (Australia 447 and 308; England 318 and 291). Dec. 27 and 27—v. Bendigo 15, at Bendigo, drawn (England 176 and nine for 188; Bendigo 163). Dec. 30 and following days—v. AUSTRALIA, second test, won by eight wickets and 2 ruris( England 265 and 220 for two wickets, Australia 184 and 299). Jan. 5 and 6—v. Geelong, at , Geelong, drawn (England 285 and four for 118; Geelong 277). - Jan. 12 and following days—v. AUSTRALIA (tird test), at Adelaide, won by 7 wickets (England 501 and three for 112;- Australia 133 and 476). REMAINING FIXTURES. Jan. 19, 20—V. Ballarat, at Ballarat. Jan. 23, 24, 25—v. Launceston, at La.uaceston. Jan. 26, 27, 29—v. Hobart, at Hofcart. Feb. 2, 3, 5, 6 —v. Victoria, at Melbourne. Feb. 9, 10, 12, 13 —v. Australia (fourth test), at Melbourne. '"eb. 16, 17, 19, 20.—v. New South Wales, at Sydney. Feb, 23, 24, 26, 2,7—v. Australia (fifth test), at SydHey. March 1, 2, 4, s—v> South Australia,, at Adelai' 1 " The following have been selected to play for Law against Inglewood on the Recreation Grounds this afternoon:— Lash, Elliot, Bewley, Reid, Paton, Ander- j son, Lawrey, Greatbatch, Harding, Ron. 1 Quilliam, and another. The teams in the New Plymouth and United Service match will be as follows:, —New Plymouth: Weston, Clarke, Arden, Ward, Kempthorne, Goddard, Monk, Morey, Monteath, Cohson, and another. United Service: Bain, Collyns, Dinniss, Girling, Gore, Ingram, Mackay, Napier, Newall, Perham, Weller; emergency, •Reid.

The weather appears to be an advocate for the Saturday half-holiday. At all events, the Saturday cricketers have not ljeen interrupted by bad weather so often as their confreres on the mid-week holiday. Last Thursday again all matches had to be postponed owing to the rain.

On Saturday United Service secured an easy win over Law, who in the first innings, could not withstand Dinniss and Bain. The former was particularly deadly, with five for 17, the latter's "figures being four for 21. Lawrey, with 13 (not out) was the only one to reach double figures. Service totalled 117. The runs were fairly divided, several men reaching double figures, Bain, with 22, heading the list. Paton, with three wickets for 13, had the best average'. In the second innings Law scored 130. Lash, who got run out for one in the first innings, got going to the tune of 63 (not out), whilst Paton scored 23. The effort came too late to win the match.

New Plymouth could not raise a team to journey to Inglewood, and accordingly forfeited.

The matches to-day are Law v. Inglewood, at the Recreation Grounds, and Service v. New Plymouth, at the High School ground. The third test match is now over a»d England has again won, somewhat comfortably, this time by seven wickets. The position now is that England has won two matches and Australia one; therefore, if Australia is to retain ~the ashes, it must win the next two matches. In the last two matches that have beeii played, England has completely 'outplayed the colonials. The collapse of j the Australians in the first innings on a good wicket in the last match for 133 is unaccountable,.particularly in the face of -the fine stand put up in the second reversal of form which if shown by a racehorse, would probably j be followed by a polite request to interview the stewards. 'Certainly the Australians had the worse of . the luck in this match in losing the services of Ransford early in the first innings through a knock while batting, which also affected him in the second innings, and also in being deprived of Trumper, who received an injury while fielding. Still given these in, it is doubtful if Australia would have won, the collapse in the first innings was too pronounced. An attempt is being made to obtain the services of Noble for the next test. If Noble decides to come out and assist Australia in the hour >of need it will a. popular action. The Australian exskipper has many a triumph with bat and ball to his credit, and though for the past couple of years he has not taken ■part in serious cricket, yet be has still followed up the game, and is batting and bowling as -of yore. There are less unlikely things than that he should be Chosen as manager of the Australian team to compete in th-e triangular matches.

There have been eight test matches played at Adelaide, and of these Australia has won five and England three. Prior to this match, Australia had not been beaten at Adelaide since 1892, when Lord Sheffield's team inflicted defeat to the tune of an innings and 230 runs. Stoddart's 1895 team was beaten by 365 runs, his 1808 team by an innings and 13 runs, MacLaren's 1002 team by four wickets, Warner's 1004 team by 216 runs, and .Tones' 1008 team bv 245 runs. Hill retrieved his list of small scores bv notching 08 in the second 1 innings of the recent, test. All cricketers will regret that the genial skipper did not gel, (lie extra two to make lite coveted century.

The four!li test commences at Melbourne on Fridav, February 0. Tii tile three matches already nlaved Kn."land has scored 170S rims for 4.1 wickets, an average of about. 38 runs per wicket, whereas Australia has scored 18-17 rims for the loss of 60 wickets, i'veragiti',' barely 31 runs per wicket. Extras have been very prolific in the tliree innfelies. totalling 203. Australia "ecures tile lion's share, viz., 126. an average of 21 per innings. The visitors' share is 77, which averages about 13 per innings, but as two innings were not completed this is hardly p- fair comparison. Still, Carter seems to lose nothing when compared with his rival custodians, Rtrudwick and Smith.

Four centuries have been scored in these matches so far, and here England shows up well with three, viz.. Ilobbs 126 (not out) and 187, and Hearne 114.

Trumper is the only century-getter for Australia, with 113. ! Englishmen head both the bowling and hatting averages, Hobbs being top in the batting with an aggregate of 407 and an average of 41.4. Hearne, with 259 and 51.8 and Rhodes, with 246 and 49.2, are second and third respectively, both h in aggregate and average. Armstrong a comes fourth and heads the Australian 3 aggregate and average, with 240 and 40. In bowling, Poster and Barnes each have secured 20 wickets at the cost respec- ' tively of 23.95 and 24.75. Hordern, with j 19 wickets at a cost of 25.37, follows them closely. j The detailed averages for the three i tests are as follows: BATTING AVERAGES. ENGLAND. Inn. N.O. H.S. Ag. Av'ge " Hobbs .... 6 1 187 407 81.4 Hearne ... 6 1 114 259 51.8 '' Rhodes ... '6 1 01 246 49.2 Foster ... 4 0 71 157 39.25 ' Gunn .... 6 0 62 193 32.16 lvinnear .. 2.. 0 30 52 20 ' Woolley .. 4 0 39 89 . 22:25 Mead .... 5 1 46 84 21 " Douglas .. 4 0 35 76 'l9 1 Smith . 2' 0 22 27 13.5 Strudwick 22 13* 13 Barnes ... 4 1 14 30 12 ' Hitch 2 1 0 0 0 ' AUSTRALIA. Armstrong 6 0 90 ' 240 40 Hordern .6 2 49* 145 30.25, '' Ransfdrd 6 1 43 181 30.2 I Hili 6 0 98 213 35.5 " Trumper.. 6 1 113 169 33.8 5 Minnett .. 6 0 '9O 181 30.10 5 Matthews 2 0 53 58 *29 1 Carter ... 6 0 72 156 20 Kelleway 6 0 70 '143 23.8 ; Bardsley 6 0 63.. 126 21 ■. Cotter ... 0 0 41 '' 89 14.8 Whitty .. 4 2 14 23 11.5 BOWLING ANALYSIS. ' ENGLAND. W'k'ts Runs Av'ge Foster 20 479 23.95 Barnes 20 495 24.75 Douglas 9 261 29 Woolley 4 143 35.75 Hitch 3 129 43 . Hearne 1 174 174 Rhodes .: 0 35 AUSTRALIA. _ { Hordern 19 482 25:37 | | Cotter 12 422 35 Kelleway 3 123 41 Minnett 2 98 49 ' Whitty 3 185 61.6 t Matthews 1 96 96 Armstrong 1 1'54 154 . Ransford 0 11 1