NOT A HAPPY FAMILY
CRITICISM OF ENGLISH TEAM.
LONDON, 26th February. The Westminster Gazette says: " The English cricketers have had bad luck in the matter of health.' Undoubtedly the hot Australian climate severely tried the team, the members of which are not notable for their youth. Nevertheless it would be most unsporting to pretend that the Australians' had not proved ■themselves superior in every department Their batting ia good to the last man, their bowling- is more varied and effective, and their fielding is; more certain than ours. -We must trust to next season's matches here to restore English cricketers' reputation." . .. •
The Times says: "Our, unfortunate cricketers go from bad to worse. Handicapped by misfortune and dispirited by defeats, they are unlikely to do anything exceptional against whose belief in themselves, must now be, limitless."
The Guardian, discussing the failure of the English Eleven, says: "It is a common topic that the team has not been a happy family. If there is no foundation for the story it should be scotched.* If true it should be ventilated in justice to, several gre,at cricketers whose reputation has not improved as the result of the tour."
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 7
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194NOT A HAPPY FAMILY Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 7
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