THE TEST MATCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1930, Page 6

THE TEST MATCH.

Nine years ago, on the famous Trent Bridge ground at Nottingham, Australia overwhelmed England in the first of that year's test matches. Never in the history of»test matches in England, said "Wisden," had English cricket been made to look quite so poor. That was the year when Gregory and Mac Donald, bowling finely on fast wickets provided by an unusually dry sujnmer, Were a scourge and a nightmare to English batsmen. In the intervening years English cricket has improved, and "the ashes" have been twice won, and now on the same ground England has won the first. test match by 93 runs. The explanatifDn of this revenge is not to be found solely in the improvement -of Home cricket. Finely though Griminett is bowling, the Australian attack (to say nothing of the batting) is not what it was in 1921. It has been a very interesting match, and the Australians, though beaten, have come through their ordeal very creditably. The balance of the luck was with England; against the advantage of winning the toss has to be set the injury to Sutcliffe and the illness of Larwood. England is one up, bjjt there is no certainty that she will win the rubber.