Cricket 1905

CR ICKET, A WEEKLY REOORD OP THE GAME. JUNE 15, 1905. 8©j—ezD « e 9cz>H e f l—e “ Together joined in Cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron. No. 6 9 2 . VOL. X X IV . THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1905. PR ICE 2d. From a photo 6y] T H E AUSTRALIANS, 1905. [ Messrs . Thiele & Co,, 66, Chancery Lane, London. D. R. A. GEHRS. av . p . HOWELL. W. W. ARMSTRONG. F. LAVER. A. J. HOPKINS. P. M. NEWLAND. R. DUFF. C. HILL. V. TRUMPER. J. DARLING. M. A. NOBLE. C. E. M’LEOD. J. J. KELLY. S. E. GREGORY. A. COTTER. AN A PPREC IA T ION OF TH E AUSTRAL IANS. That the present Australian team would be very strong in batting was doubted by nobody who had carefully followed the Interstate matches during the last two years. It was taken for granted that the fielding of the team would be as good as that of its predecessors, for all Australian cricketers recognise that un­ less a man can field it is useless to bring him on a tour. The great question which has been exercising the minds of cricketers, English and Australian alike, for the last few months, is whether the bowling would come up to sample—a question which can hardly be said to be solved as yet, despite the entirely un­ looked for success of Laver, and the seeming weakness of Cotter. It must be admitted that there is great difficulty in believing that Laver is as good as Trumble, for he is in his thirty-sixth year, and before the present tour be had done nothing to mark him out as a bowler of great parts. It is one of the very rarest things in the world for a bowler suddenly to improve vastly—even