INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.
JAIIDINE IS PESSIMISTIC.
OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS
LONDON, January 27. The opinion that international cricket W%Ir"K"? "-rf«lne« was expressed KF: D ' R - Jardine, who captained the English team in Australia in 1934. in an address to the English-speaking Union. j-' As ~% mon ey-spinner," said Mr. Jardine Test cricket is grand. Without English and Australian tours English county cricket would cease to exist because two-thirds of the counties would be in queer street.
Australia has lost the dignity of the game because of barracking, which at first is funny, but when one hears four stock-in-trade cries for five months thev are no longer funny. These cries are": Get your bag,' <Y OU will never get them out Put the umpire on,' 'Put the clock on.
It would be a tragedy if barracking ever came in cricket in England. Cricket is the best game to play or to talk about, but the place to play it is on the village green.
Mr. Hugh de Selincourt. author and ?r i'V, , P resifl ed, maintained that the lest field was tne proper place to dissipate the ' hates of man." It would be a sad day if cricket became "nice and gentle."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 13
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