THE TEST MATCH. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. AUSTRALIANS NEVER LOOKED LIKE LOSING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 150, 22 December 1911, Page 7

THE TEST MATCH. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. AUSTRALIANS NEVER LOOKED LIKE LOSING.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received December 22, 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Sydney Morning Herald says that at no stage did the Australians look like losing the match. They batted, bowled, and fielded better than the Englishmen. In recent years English critic 6 have considered that the only way a visiting team could hope for 6iiccecss against the Australians was by sound, defensive, rather than brilliant batting. ' The South Africans also adopted these tactics, but Australia won nine out of the last eleven tests, proving that the enterprising batsman, as represented by Australia, loses nothing by comparison. The Daily Telegraph states that considering the English team was not representative, and that Warner was unable to play, the Englishmen can be congratulated on their good fight. If England is to win in Australia, ehe must send her best team, though it is open to argument even if her" best team could van. The Englishmen may do better in the remaining matches. Many of them are young .players engaging in their flret test. This is more serioue to an Engliehman than to an Australian, ac cricket is sacred to the English, whereas no sport j is sacred to Australians, who have no ' traditions to live up to. j