EIGHT-BALL OVER OPPOSED.
SOUTH AFRICA AND ENGLAND AGREED. LONDON, May 5. The ■'Times'' cricket correspondent writes that there is no likelihood of the Marylebone Cricket Club adopting the eight-ball over, while in South Afric.i tiie feeling ie equally averse from any alteration of the law at present. It is likely that the majority of experts will advise that there should be no change. The correspondent personally thinks that the adoption of tiie longer over in I England would tend to lessen the pace. of fast bowlers, tempting th-jiJi to save themselves. lmprtsfcive. form has been shown by A. N. \Vh.ite, an Australian, at Cambridge. H* v bowling excellently.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1922, Page 5
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