CRICKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10541, 25 January 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Eho trie Telegraph —Copyright J

M.C.C. TEAM IN AUSTRALIA MATCH AGAINST TASMANIA. GOOD SCORING. (Received Last Night-, 9.00 o'clock.) LA UNOESTON, January 24., The cricket match between Tasmania and the Englishmen was resumed to-day, under favourable weather conditions. The gate receipts amounted to £95. This wicket was good throughout the play. Mead, Wool ley, Hitch and Strudwick gave sparkling displays. Foster -ave an easy chance before scoring, :: d was never comfortable. Tasmania commenced their second innings, with a deficit of 115 runs to make up,,'and .made 37 in an hour for one wicket. The batsmen used the greatest caution. Scores:— EN GL AN D. —First" Innings. S. F. Barnes, c Thomas, b Windsor 35 F. E Wool-ley, c McKenzie, b Windsor 45 C. P. Mead, '» McKeime 98 J. livmonger, ib Martin 31 W. R. Rhodes, c Elliott,: b McKenzie 14 J. Vine, b Martin 1 J.. W. Hearne, e Paton, b Martin 13 F. R,, Foster,-c Gill, b Martin •12 J. W. Hitch, hot out . ' 33 H. Strudwick, run out 28

Total 332 Bowling analysis—Paton 0 for 46, McKenzie 2 for 65, Windsor 3 fo r4O, Martin .4 for 127, Elliott 0 for 15, Gill 0 for 33. TASMANIA. Fiirst Innings 217 Second Innings., Elthatr., c Mead, b Hearno .11 Gill,: nc>t out. , ' -v... . [ 18 Vincent,.not' out" : ; ■>/ '_ 5 •Extras. 3 Total for one vvicket 37 The game concludes to-morrow, and the team will leave for Hoibart, where T-'hey play another match against Tasmania. AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR ENGLAND. BOARD OF CONTROL. WILL NOT WAVER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received January 24, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 24. The Board of Control has. replied to the players, but the contents*. of the reply have not divulged^" : y It is understood that th&Btyh'd has no intention of wavering, and" the six players-will be taken at their word and given no chance of retracting. (The six players concerned -are V. Trumpeiy Clem. Hill, W. W. Armstrong, V. S. Ramsford, H. Carter, and A. Qotter.)

DRI H. y. HOiIDERN

UNABLE TO GO HOMiil.

(Received LoSfe' Night, 8.55 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, January 2-1. Dr. ,H,. V. Hordern, tiie Australian "goo{>!ie. ,! _ bowler, states definitely Hint he will not he able to accompany 'i!:.o Australian team to England this seawall owing to business reasons.

THE FOURTH TEST MATCH. THUMPER WILL PLAY. (Received January 24, 9,50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January, 24.. ... It is' pra«tioaHy Victor Tnimper 'will .play an -the -^e&fc : Test Match,, which commences Febniarv' 9ih. «.t Melbourne. - (Tnimper injured' a Mood vessel in his leg while fielding in the Third Test match.)

"lIAX.TC. THE PRINCE OF CRICKET." K. S. Raxijitsinliji, whom the cables announced yesterday was going to England with the intention of playing in the.Triangular Tests ibis.season, is forty, years of age. During ihis connection with English, county cricket ho lias made 63 centuries,'••sß of which were for his county, Sussex. He onnv,\ out to Australia with Stoddart's team. He commenced the tour with 189 against South Australia, and a few weeks later, in the only Test match won by the Englishmen, 'lie liit up 175. and finally came out on top of the aveiages at the end of the tour with an average of 60. His best seasons were-1899 and 1900, when he SCO!' ed over 3000 nras in oacli, averaging in tho latter 87.57 in all matches. As Prince o.f Cricket, Ranji has a style of his own—-graceful, sinuous. and charming. Not content with sliowiue English, cricketers how to pln-v their national game, he ha-s added to it now strokes hitherto not considered possible—one of them his famous glance to leg. He has a scoring stroke for the best ball bowled, and. bv the judicious use of the four feet of ground between tho creases in -fonvairi or back nlay, no bowler can. bowl him a good length ball—he has no "blind spot," His leg-glance is not made by isimplv holding the bat at a slantiiif angle. but he allows the face of the bat. to travel towards the face of the ball and then ,it the last second, just when the hall meets the Ht a quick movement of the wnst deflects the hall ou. the lop side It was in the first match of importance in which he nlaved. Sussex at Lords. (77 not out and loO) that he astonished the eritics by playing balls on 'and outside the off «t-unip round to square and fine leg. Most unorthodox." ,smd +be critics. > WJin* would haprien." said oiw to him. if v o r u missed the ball? Yon would be "Quite «n." *a*d + 1 ;" famous batsman who ws to electing the world with his skill. "W, if _T iniwed anv straiVht ball T should no howled!" And truly, the way in whioh ,1,0 nlaved *>,«. lc <rlnnc* mflrtp it, snife "for him as any other stroke. He has been jwftv +ermpd a mechanical batsman is now ruler in Tndia. TT. H. the "Mahivajflh Sahib of Nawanagar. The British will nh-iys rem™Vr him ns the mighty "Ranh." who 1 brought Ibatsmanship to a fine 'art.