Serf-Like Batsmen
(NZ.PA.-Rev.ter—Copyright) LONDON, February 15.
London's evening newspapers today dubbed England's batting on the first day of the fifth test against Australia as ''negative’' and "craven."
The "Evening Standard” cricket writer, John Clarke, said: “The tale of the fifth test here today has so sorry a start that it should bear the dateline ‘Sydney, Friday mourning’ mourning for England's good name.” Clarke said England’s batting had been “so abject and craven" that when E. R. Dexter came in at 39 for two "every Australian on the field seemed to have grown in stature and to have honed his corrx>etence to a sharp edge on England’s ineptitude.”
He said: “The awful mortality rate among England's openers had not been stemmed by expediency and part of the trouble surely must be their forelock-touching serf-like approach to the job.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 12
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