CRICKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9172, 21 August 1908, Page 5

CRICKET.

PHENOMENAL SCORING. Received August 20, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, August 19. There has been phenomenal scoring in the county cricket matches, twenty-nine centuries having been recorded in eight days, including ten this week. Surrey, scoring 532 for eight wickets (Marshall 167), beat Kent by an innings and 318 runs. Essex made 573 for nine wickets against Northampton. McGahey scored 230. Middlesex put on 534 for eight wickets against Notts, Tarrant's contribution being 144 (not out). Lancashire scored 506 against Leicester. A. Marshall hails from Queensland, and promises to even rival his fel-low-Australian, Tarrant (from Victoria), in making an all-round reputation in English cricket. Last season he was ninth in Surrey's bowling averages, taking 21 wickets for j 24.85 runs apiece; and he was also ninth in the batting averages with 24.76 for 50 innings, his total being 1,065 runs, including one. century, 111 against Worcestershire. Good as these figures are, they are nrt so good as what "Wisden" says of his play last season:—"A great deal of interest was taken in the doings of the Queensland player, Marshall. As a batsman, he was rather disappointing, but he is sure to get on better in the future. His Ijweakness was a lack of sufficient confidence to play his proper game. He is by nature a hitter, but, except on rare occasions he did not let hinidt'lf go. As an all-round cricketer he givec very high promise iudt-ed. All i through the Burnmtr he fielded splen- I didiy being by fur the surest catch in the eleven and in August a tardy (lis- ] covery was maclo of his ability as a bowler. Right hand, medium pace, he got on a fair amount of snin and his great height made the flight of the bull rather difficult to follow. He took so many wickets in club cricket iti 1906 that he ought to have been given his opportunity much earlier in the season."

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