GUESSING THE NEW TEAM
It is often as hard to pick a cricket team as to select a Cabinet, and everybody's should go out to the English selectors. Before the second Test English confidence in the shock bowlers seemed to be staunch. , But what the spin did at Melbourne has unsettled the judgment of public and critics alike, and as any new selection of bowlers alters the batting and fielding balance, the selectors are receiving a number of unsolicited suggestions by writers who,' perforce, have to confess the new weaknesses developed by their efforts to repair old ones. For instance, should better batting quality keep Larwood or Voce in a team that is considered to need slower bowlers? Will the Adelaide -wicket suit spin bowling? Will Mitchell's break be smothered by quicF-footed Australian batsmen, and is it a time to resurrect Tate? Not one of these questions is capable of a mathematical answer, there being so many unknowable factors, but to work it all out—in your own mind—in London is almost as good as being at the Test. Besides, as the public demand these dissections and post-mortems, it is the business of cricket writers to supply them. One can easily imagine a selector refusing to read messages 'from Home.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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209GUESSING THE NEW TEAM Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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