SPORT OVERSEAS.
HOBBS ON BODY-LINE. More Balls Pitched Wide of Leg Stump Than on It. BRADMAN GREATER BATSMAN. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Hobbs, in his latest article reiterates his dislike of body-line bowling, and says: "As seen by mo in Australia more balls wereT"pitched wide of the leg stump than on it. I deprecate 'greybeards' arguing that they in their youth would have scored freely off body-line bowling. I say definitely that they would not have done so against Larwood in Australia, where it was not a question of good length balls rising quickly and hitting thighs and chest. Such things do not happen on Australian wickets. Larwood had a pitch which was short, and he maintained it at a length and speed that nothing could be done with him. ' "Bradman was even better than in England in 1930, and had more and better strokes.
"I doubt whether England would have won the Ashes without body-line bowling-"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 112, 15 May 1933, Page 7
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162SPORT OVERSEAS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 112, 15 May 1933, Page 7
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