TIME LIMIT CONDEMNED
FOURTH TEST UNINSPIRING AND
HOPELESS.
The "Daily Telegraph" says:— "Those who prophesied a succession of draws .have been favoured by the weather and the tactics of tho Australians, which we do not blame, though we cannot admire, in refusing to take even the faintest risk. What conceivable risk could they have run had they declared at Manchester late on Monday afternoon and sent in England for an hour's batting on the strength of getting one or two valuable wi ( ckets? But their first and main consideration had been not to lose." Commenting on tho demand now being made in Australia that the last Test match shall be played out, whether it takes a week or a fortnight, the "Telegraph" remarks:— "We suggest that Australia is bent on demolishing once for all the threeday tradition here. If the effort is successful, we fear it will soon be regretted. It would set Test cricket even more than now in a class apart and lead to unspeakable tedious batting and bowling, that would be designed not so much to get wickets as to avoid runs.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 11
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185TIME LIMIT CONDEMNED Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 11
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