NOTED CRICKETER

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 7

NOTED CRICKETER

Retirement of McDonald TO PLAY LEAGUE GAMES 1 Suffering from the muscle strain he received two seasons ago, E. A. McDonald, has announced the finish of a great cricket career as far as the higher flights the game are concerned. He leaves the Lancashire side after nine years of splendid service, in which his bowling was the main factor in lifting the Red Rose side to the county premiership and keeping it there for several seasons, to play with Bacup League Club, where South Australian A. J. Richardson has also found a place. The TasmanianVictorian was one of the greatest bowlers Australia has produced. McDonald, with Jack Gregory, was mainly responsible for Australia’s preeminence over England after the war in Test matches, as these two fast bowlers enabled Australia to win' eleven Test games to England’s none front 1920-21 to 1924-25. when England won at Melbourne bv an innings and SO runs. The best England could do out of thirteen Test matches when McDonald and Gregory were in their prime was to draw the matches at Manchester and the Oval in 1921.