CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1922, Page 5

CRICKET.

TOUR OF ENGLISH TEAM. PLAYERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Received Aug. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, August 19, The Marylebone sub-committee announces that Mr. McLaren’s team for Australia and New Zealand includes Calthorpe, Geoffrey, Wilson. Chapman, Lowry. Titchmarsh, McLean (of Wbrcestershlre), and Freeman. A. C. Wilkinson and R. StL. Fowler have accepted subject to obtaining military leave. G. H. Gibson (Cambridge), who is now in South America, was invited, but has not replied. If he refuses D. F. Brand will be invited. Hillwood (of Cambridge) and Colonel Hartley have also been Invited. Tfee team leaves on September 30., The following will tour South Africa: Mann (captain), Carr, A. Gilligan, Fender, Jupp, Stevens, Woolley. Livsey. Brown, Mead, Kennedy, Russell. The following were invited but refused: Sandham, Macauley, Hobbs and Par-kin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., PLAY IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, August 18. .Fender, Woolley and Artill all completed a thousand runs and a hundred wickets this week. Kent, 351, beat Notts, 120 and 162. Collins took six wickets for 18 runs and ten for 65. Sussex, 341 and 44 for one wicket, beat Lancashire, 122 and 261. Yorkshire, 266 and 144, for five wickets declared, drew with Middlesex, 170 and 85 for two wickets. Friday’s results leave the cricket championship in an exciting position. Yorkshire is still in the lead, with a percentage of 73.07. Surrey 71.42 and Notts 69.16 are the only other counties with a. chance of winning. Notts seems hardly likely to make up leeway, so to-day’s match, Surrey versus Yorkshire, at the Oval, will probably prove the deciding game. Collins’ feat of taking sixteen wickets was a great performance, though not a record, as twelve bowlers have previously taken seventeen wickets in first-class cricket.