On Friday last, the 20th instant, the M.C. team set sail for Aus-is certain that the welcomed in Australia, and, though not the best com bination that could have been wished, is a thoroughly strong tean. Mr.
Jones, the captain, knows the game thoroughly, and plays it thoroughly well. His ability asa captain mus been proved by the revolution he has worked in Notts cricket and it is certain that he will the With such ings, Hayes and Crawford in the English team, the Australian spectators il have little slow cricket to comple and Jones and hi Hardstaf al makes the trip, and in addition to being a sound, steady batsman and a good bowler, is one of the in the wi Hayward has accompany will have a worthy Hobbs. Fane: an ang are it li team boy virtue of th wg powers and the young ses amateur miny be the wicket-keeper, If oung is called upon to keep wicket, the Austral witness the unusual sight of a ket-keeper wearing spectach The team includes several bowlers: of undoubted ability, Fielder ix the fast howler on the hand Australian i 1 probably be played in every He has improved consid made the trip before, team, and in fact, the chief Rames min for consid the season many:
to be in the tean hae two ed bowlers, Both sucrose nal to and Rhodes
ich similar lwaslers matches, but Rhodes is such a gond batsman that it ix quite possible that both he and Blythe will figure in all the Test matches, Jones then has at his comment six men who are played for their batting self, Hutchings, Fane, Young, Hobbs Mardstalf: three men played for their bowling—Fielder, Blythe and Barnes: and in Hayes, Crawford, Rhodes and Braun, he has four good all-round cricketers. Brand, Rhodes and the captain are splendid fielders and in Hinmphries they have a ct-keeper inferior to Lilley only in Jones, who is thirty-four years of age, is the oldest member of the team, and Crawford (twenty) is the youngest. The average age of the whole team ix 22.7, If the members of the team have not all great reputati nickly making reputa ings is one of the most brilliant hitters in England and Hobbs is considered the promising batsman of all the young professionals. Crawford is a hitter who seems to delight in breaking the windows of Kennington Oval pavilion, and is tone of the best all-round cricketers in the world. The team lacks a left-hand batsman, for though Rhodes bowls left-hand, he bats right,
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