Hutton Picks Australia

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 17

Hutton Picks Australia

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) , LONDON. The former England captain, Sir Leonard Hutton, has tipped Australia to win the coming test series. Speaking in Rhodesia, where he is on a business trip. Sir Leonard Hutton said: “England will not regain the Ashes. “What’s more, Mike Smith’s men will be lucky to win more than one test,” the London "Evening News” reported. In an interview in Salis-

bury hes aid: “This is not a bad M.C.C. side. ■ Smith is a good captain and has some first-rate batsmen in Colin Cowdrey, Ken Barrington, Peter Parfitt and himself. “But the team lacks men of real class when it comes to bury he said: “This is not a Statham or Tyson among them.

“And with Australia having the tremendous advantage of playing at home, I cannot see England winning the series.” Hutton agreed the Australians also seem to be somewhat thin in the seam department.

‘But they have some fine batsmen and do have this knack of pulling good players out of the bush,” he said. Hutton would have liked to have seen more Yorkshire and Lancashire players in the side to join Lancashire’s pace bowler, Ken Higgs and Yorkshire’s opening batsman. Geoff Boycott. “They breed them tough in the Roses counties and have the temperament to cope with the big-match atmosphere of say, a test day at Melbourne, with 70,000 partisan Aussies yelling for their country.”