MALLETT IN FORM
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A. J. Mallett, so often starved of bowling opportunities on tour, gleefully took his chance on Saturday when the acting captain, K. R. Stackpole, called on him to bowl 24 overs against Somerset
Mallett, giving the ball more air, took five for 59— his best tour return—to enable Australia to dismiss Somerset for 169.
At stumps, Australia was 62 for two, having lost B. Francis, who struggled for 74 minutes to score 14. and G. Watson, who batted for 85 minutes for 32 before ambitiously trying to hoist a fellow Australian, K. J. O’Keefe, over square leg. Mallett bowled skilfully, and only the Somerset and former England captain, D. B. Close, made any resistance. He scored a disciplined 48 in 177 minutes, with six boundaries.
It was only the second time on tour that Mallett, who bowls better after a lot of work, had had more than 22 overs in an innings. Against the M.C.C at Lord’s in May, he took five for 61 from 31.1 overs, and last month, three for 68 off 22 overs, against the Combined Universities.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32958, 3 July 1972, Page 22
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