OPENING PAIR FOR BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27055, 2 June 1953, Page 7

OPENING PAIR FOR BRITAIN

SPECULATION AFTER TRIAL MATCH LONDON. May 31. “When Len Hutton took Trevor Bailey with him to open for England in the batting test trill he served notice that the position was ‘to let’ for the test matches,” says the cricket writer of “Reynolds News.” “A rush for the vacancy has started opening batsmen all over the country making bids for selection.” The writer says that those in the running are Hutton’s Yorkshire partner, Frank Lowson, Nottinghamshire’s

Reg Simpson, Worcestershire’s Don Kenyon, the only player to hit a century against the Australians, Lancashire's Ikin and Cyril Washbrook, and Sussex's David Sneppard. Ralph Hadley says in “The People" that England’s test team will be picked on June 11. But the selectors need not wait until then. “Drop Trueman, May, and Sheppard.” he writes. “The only man to open the bowling with Alec Bedser is Lancashire’s Brian Statham. There is only one man to open the batting with Hutton—Don Kenyon, of Worcestershire.”