Outcome Of Fifth Test Debated

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 19

Outcome Of Fifth Test Debated

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON.

G. McKenzie was “Australia’s big game hope” of winning the fifth test against South Africa and saving the series, John Woodcock reported in “The Times.”

“The future course of the fifth test depends on how much South Africa are able to increase their first innings lead,” he said. “In the light of Australia’s recent batting, I would expect a lead of 120 to be decisive.” But McKenzie, if he bowled as well as he did earlier in the match, could be the matchwinner. “To the South Africans, for a few more days, he is a lion stalking the jungle,” Woodcock said. First Two Hours Michael Melford, of the “Daily Telegraph,” said: Pollock would go out to bat yesterday on his twenty-third birthday knowing that every-

i thing could depend on him in the first two hours. “If Pollock is still there at lunch he will almost certainly ; have made the match and series safe,” Helford said. ; “If however, Australia could shift him early on, and work ■ their way quickly through I what must seem to them end- , less competent batting, they . would be able to see a remarkable salvation ahead.” They would need to set i South Africa 200 runs in the . final innings. “No great imagination is required to see South Africa, with the golden chalice almost > in reach, working themselves ■ into a dither, perhaps against ■ the left arm spin of Martin, I whom Pollock mauled on Sat- • urday,” he said.