CAN BE BEATEN!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 21

CAN BE BEATEN!

1 AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN. I' j NO NEED FOR PESSIMISM. TENOR OF ENGLISH COMMENT. LONDON, January 28. Commenting on the Australian cricketers selected to tour England next season the "Times" in a leading article says:— "Strong as Bradman's team undoubtedly is, there is no need for pessimism." The "Daily Mail's" writer says: "The Australians are good, but certainly can be beaten by an England team inspired with confidence and the ruthless will to win. lam in total disagreement with Lord Hawke's pronouncement that the Australians are almost invincible. English cricket abounds in good material, requiring only self-assurance, which must be encouraged, liot shaken by bogey stories of Australian omnipotence. "Our men have an equal chance of regaining the 'Ashes.' Excepting Bradman. the Australian batsmen are not superior to England's best. We can certainly have more formidable pace in attack. The following team would give the so-called invincibles a long and diffirun:—Hutton, Edrich. Hammond. Hardstaff, Paynter, Ames; Robins (raptain) Voce, Verity, Farmea and Larwood. The Glasgow "TelegrapTi" gavs:—"The Australian team is young, therefore partly experimental. That it will be astutely handler! is certain. That it will nearly be invincible' remains to be seen. I should say it is a team of considerable possibilities. There is so much young blood that it would be absurd now to try and gauge its final strength. "The hatting is certain to be strong, the bowling more open, and there is a doubt about the fielding. This young team led by Bradman is certain to be high-class Fleetwood-Smith is likely to trouble the English batsmen." The Manchester "Guardian" says:—"lf . fre a weak spot in the Australian sule it is likely to be in bowlinjr. So. in order to balance the bijj soorrw which Bradman and hi«. allies are expected to make, our batsmen must enter the fray in ffood heart. Our selectors should take a leaf out of the visitors' book and concentrate o» young cricketers of character, and we shall have fine sport.. Too often our young men seem to be slowlv ground down tr> dailv Countv cricket before being chosen to play for England." all ten wickets. ( WOODEN-LEGGED PLAYER. (Received 10 n.m.) JOHANNESBURG. January 2S. E. Magnnssen, a wood en-legged, leftarm. medium-pace bowler, took all ten wickets for 10 runs in an inter-club match. Tn an earlier game he captured nine wickets for 8 runs, four with the first four balls.