BODY-LINE BOWLING

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 9

BODY-LINE BOWLING

Forbidden to Ballarat

BOARD ISSUES ORDER

Jardine on Larwood’s Record

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyrirht

(Received Jan. 22, 6.0

Melbourne, Jan. 22.

Prior to the game with the M.C.O. team at Ballarat yesterday, a letter from the Board of Cricket Control was read to-the Ballarat players forbidding leg theory bowling. The Instructions were obeyed throughout the innings. Replying to adverse criticisms at luncheon, the English captain, D. R. Jardine, said it was not his place to

debate the leg theory. He asked them to see how many times Larwood hit the wickets. Barrackers were always crying “Bowl on the wicket,” therefore they should consider Larwood’s record in this respect. CONTROVERSY AT HOME Sympathy, for Australia London, Jan. 20. Columns of letters are appearing in the newspapers on the leg theory controversy, a surprisingly large number being sympathetic to the Australian viewpoint and contesting the statement that Gregory and MacDonald ever bowled the leg trap. Mr. J. 0/Squire, editor of the London Mercury,” breaks into verse in the “Evening Standard,” the . last two stanzas of which read: —

Where is that tough Australian grin? When, comrades, did you learn to

faint? Can you not take without complaint A dose of your own medicine? Finish this futile brawl to-day. We won’t believe the paradox— A whining Digger funking knocks— Come on, one up and two to play. M.C.C. AT BALLARAT Jardine Goes for a Single PATAUDI SCORES 84 (Received Jan. 22, 6.30 p.m.). Melbourne, Jan. 22. At Ballarat yesterday, when England met a local team, the wicket was slow and easy. Batting first, England scor. ed 255.' Pataudi made 84. He batted for 166 minutes. Leyland, who scored 61, hit one six and four fours, batting for 83 minutes. Stalker, a fairly fast bowler, took four wickets for 62 runs. Jardine, who opened the Innings, was bowled by Stalker after scoring a single. Alexander, an Inter-State bowler, took one ,wicket for 65. Ballarht scored 26 for the loss or one wicket. Tate took one for 8. J .