TEST CRICKET

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11046, 21 February 1933, Page 3

TEST CRICKET

CHANGE IN AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

Adelaide, Feb; 19secretary of the Cricket Board

of Control announces that P. Lee has • been selected'to replace Nagel in the ; filth and final test match, to be commenced In Sydney next Thursday.Lee Is an all-round player and a • splendid spin bowler. In Sheffield Shield games this season he has taken 25 wickets for an average of 17 runs. The Australian wicketkeeper, Oldfield, states that he will be fit to Slay in the fifth test, The Australian team for the final test match will be selected from the following 12 players:—Woodfull, .Richardson, Bradman, McCabe, Oldfield, ■ O’JBrien, Darling, f Bromley, O’Reilly, Lee, Ironmonger and Wall. The twelfth man will he chosen on ibs first day of the i match; Nagel , imd to drop out owing to an injured atm. COMMENTS ON LAST TEST. ' , ! London, Feb. 18. The Manchester Guardian says imiwood was the deciding factor in fbe teet match rubber, for he has , wired the seemingly insoluble Brad®an problem for the moment. There is only one blemish, says the paper. Too many of England's batsmen have Uisyed ,4all, strokeless cricket. The Wise is not more than the game, there would soon be little of the fisme left if every cricketer set his Wind entirely on victory. The Yorkshire Post says it I s doubtful whether England has pos*®swd'’Buch‘ a strong bowling side for 30 years. . ,