CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 9

CRICKET.

TOWN V. COUNTRY MATCH. RE-ARRANGEMENT OF B. TEAM. The inability of some of the players chosen for the town teams to play the Country Association representatives tomorrow to obtain leave has necessitated a re-arrangement. The Country B. team will now meet the Boys’ High School first eleven at the High School. This match will be of great benefit to the school eleven in view of their match against Nelson College in a fortnight’s time. The resulting re-draw of the town team is as follows:—Jones, C. Lash, I. Palmer, Quickfall, Nicoll, Haughton, Dykes, Lawrey, B. Lash, M. D. Clarke and W. Fuller. Emergencies: J. Palmer, Strombom, Hart. The following will represent New Plymouth juniors against Western Park:— Stevens, Hodges, Smith, Davis, Simpson, Bell, Boyle, Tippc-ns, Glentworth, Aitcheson, Parkin, Elliot, Clarke and Jones. TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW. The following Avenue Road team has been selected to play Okato at Okato on Saturday (car to leave Mr. Richards, Avenue Road, at 1 p.m.): Richards (2), Osborne, J. Cliff, Harvey, O’Byrne, Beu, Olson, A, Clarke, Bowie, Davis. Borough Council to play High School at Tukapa No. 3: Lewis, Hodges, Poriway, Kinsella, Large, Spedding (2), McClymont, Lee, L. Thomas, Giddy, Slyfield.. Borough Council B to play Old Boys at Tukapa No. 1: Mills, Thomas, Jones, Shaw, Hamblyn, Simpson, Hawkins (2), Upshall, Hogan, Battin, Sole. ENGLISH TEAM IN BOMBAY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Dec. 1. Playing at Bombay in the match Marylebone v. Hindus, Earle scored 130, including eight sixes and eleven fours. Two of the sixes were the biggest- hits ever seen in Bombay. Tate and Earle added 154 in 75 minutes for the sixth wicket. Okato team to play Avenue Road, at Okato, on Saturday: Rutherford, Edwards, Coleman, P. Corbett, E. Andrews, Jenkins, A. Andrews, Knyvett, C. Corbett, Macarthy, Roberts, Brooke. A “DARK HORSE.” Says the Christchurch Star: A wicketkeeper who, to all but a few, is a “dark horse” among the possibles for the English tour, is C. N. Kingston, of Taranaki, the famous All Black full-back. One critic, who has seen Kingston in action behind the sticks many times, considers that as a “keeper” he loses nothing by comparison with either Tattersail or Ken James. In support of this, when the last New South Wales team was in the Dominion, early in 1925, after the match with Taranaki, C. G. Macartney, in conversation with “Old Boy,” com plimented Kingston upon his excellent work with the gloves, and expressed the view that he had not seen a better “keeper” in action in the Dominion.