CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1922, Page 5

CRICKET.

VICTORIA DEFEATS SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Adelaide, Feb. 28. Victoria in the first innings made 625 (Woodful not out 22). Bowling analysis: Marton 3 for 132, Townsend 3 for 102, Wlhitty 2 for 135. South Australia lost six wickets for 194 (Smith 72, Rundell 30, Townsend not out 27, Rymill not out 22, Richardson 21). Received Feb. 28, 9.30 pjn. Adelaide, Feb. 28. Cricket was continued in fine weather. South Australia, in their second innings, made 233 (Townsend 31, Rymill 28, Witty 20). Bowling analysis: Wallace took three wickets for 62 runs, Keating two for 73, O’Keefe five for 45. Victoria won by an innings and 232 runs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AUSTRALIAN TOUR REVIEWED. London, Feb. 2"/. Mr. Sydney Pardon, reviewing the Australian tour in Wisden’s Cricket Almanack, says: “Since Knox bowled his fastest in 1906 I have never seen batsmen so obviously intimidated. McDonald was the finer bowler, but. Gregory was much more alarming. The latter was apt when he pitched short to g... up dangerously high, but old cricketers were sarcastic when they saw batsmen frightened by long hops. They remembered R. D. Walker’s dictum that a batsman who could not take care of himself should not play cricket. “Few critics seemed to think much of Mailey, but he always got wickets, proof of his excellence was the fact that batsmen trying to make light of him always came to grief. “Armstrong’s accuracy of pitch was almost miraculous, or the batsmen flattered him by playing with such exaggerated caution. “Ryder was not given much chance as a bowler. It puzzles me that anyone thought the Australian bowling other than firstrate. “Macartney and Bardsley were magnificent, and neither seemed to know what it was to be out of form. There is a reluctance amongst English critics to place Bardsley among left-handers on a level with Clem Hid, which I cannot understand. He is the most consistent of all the Australians who have ever visited England. “Macartney was a law unto himself. He is an individual genius, but not a model to copy. Constantly he did things that were quite wrong for the ordinary batsmen, but . justified all his audacities. Except Trumper no Australian batsman ever demorahaed our bowlers to the same extent. “Of the others, Andrews was distinctly: the best. Mayne could not be fairly as he was kept in the background. Ryder was certainly not given the prominence to which he was entitled. Gregory was emphatically the side's match-winner. Hb fielding was perfect. I have never seen such a combination.” Mr. Pardon considers McDonald, Gregory, Macartney, J. L. Bryan and Hubert Ashton the five cricketers of the year.