FAST BOWLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 6

FAST BOWLING.

Your correspondent "Fu Manchu" asks ft> r suggestions from your readers as to how a fast bowler can be stopped from bowling three inches and six inches outside the leg stump. I do not know that I can assist him greatly in this matter, but if the fast bowler whom he has in mind pitches the ball so often and so far on the leg side as to convey the impression that he is doing so purposely, and if the said bowler thereby compels his opponents to use so much of their skill in defending their persons from physical damage that they are unable to devote a reasonable amount of attention to the purposes of the game, that is, the scoring of runs, and if the bowler appears to be reckless as to whether he causes physical damage or not, I would suggest that "Fu Manchu" should bring the matter to the attention of the local police, as such a bowler probably commits a criminal assault and is liable accordingly. I may be wrong in my interpretation of the law, but I am certain that a team of sportsmen would give their opponents the advantage of any doubt that might exist and restrict themselves to methods involving no hazard of themselves taking a criminal advantage. SOLOX