WIDER WICKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 9 July 1926, Page 7

WIDER WICKETS.

INSTEAD OF MORE DAYS.

HOW TO FINAUSE MATCHES

LOXDOX, July S. Dr. G. F. Browne, a former Bishop of Bristol, now 93 years of age, and who ! played cricket for Yorkshire 72pycars j ago commented upon the gain? as it is played to-day. I Dγ Browne said: "It was beautiful to I see the performances of Hobbs and Bardsley in the second Test match. There seemed to be no reason why they should not have stayed in for days. "But it seems to mc that the mastery I of the batsmen over the bowlers makes j for unbalanced cricket. ] "I played in the days of underhand bowling. We played on bumpy pitches and the bowlers chose the bumps on which to pitch the ball. The ball often broke violently, as a consequence of which the batsmen were often seriously injured. Nowadays all the advantages are with the batsmen. '"'I believe that all dissatisfaction arising over unfinished Test matches and other first-class matches could be made : to disappear in the simplest manner. "The width of the wicket should be : increased by lin each way. Tliie would : give the bowler an easier target and the i batsman would have a greater area to 1 defend. It would also make for fewer 1 unsuccessful appeals for leg-before-wicket i decisions."—(A. and Tx£.). j >