BRILLIANTLY LOST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 8

BRILLIANTLY LOST

A pity that Bradinan, tho main hope of Australia's eleventh-hour quest for 89 runs,-should have been run out. It is an unsatisfactory way to take a wicket, especially that of a great batsman; although a huge number of good wickets fall in that manner. But, without detracting from'the merits of field and 'keeper, one would have preferred to see the last day 'of * a really great Test pivoted on a more positive capture of the main position. With Bradman's departure, "Australian hopes sank to zero," and White—from whom nobody escaped save Bradinan and Jackson—continued the destructive work that has dominated this match ever since the Englishmen's moderate first innings gave Australia a figJiting chance. Perhaps a new view^ of the ascendancy of .bat over ball may become possible when it is seen that in Test cricket on Australia's "billiard table" pitches a bowler of White's typo may still check run-getting and take such, a regular.toll of wickets as to claim, out of nine batsmen who fell to bowlers, no less than eight. In this innings neither Larwood nor Tate took a wicket. . With averages, of five for 130 and eight for 129, in one of the hardest fought Tests, on Australian ground, and unlimited in time, White has put up a performance that should be a beacon to young bowlers who rely on skill / more than on < high speed. Possession of a White is not only important to England. It is important to cricket as a whole, demonstrating that heady,'bowling is not after all a lost cause. .-' .■■■■.