AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER LIKENED TO HAMMOND
Flight-Sergeant J. P. Redpath, wellknown Invercargill cricketer, footballer and boxer, has achieved an ambition. He has trodden the hallowed ground at Lord's, where he recently saw English and Australian teams in action. Writing to a member of the reporting staff of the Southland Times (where he was employed when he enlisted), Flight-Ser-geant Redpath enthuses over the batsmanship of W. R. Hammond, the former England captain, and Keith Miller, an Australian, whom he believes will reach the heights that Hammond reached before the war.
"Critics over nere consider that Miller is Hammond all over again, and after seeing them both bat on the same dav lam inclined to agree," he writes. "It was Miller's free and easy style which impressed me; fast, medium or slow bowling was treated all the same way. Hammond hit up 100 and Miller scored 81."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 232, 30 September 1944, Page 3 (Supplement)
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