IN HIS OWN FASHION

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 13

IN HIS OWN FASHION

BRADMAN MAY REPLY

TREATMENT OF BOWLERS

LONDON, December 20,

Commentators on the Test match lustily applaud Hammond, but are chary of being too* optimistic. •'

The "Sunday Times" expects Bradman to reply in his own fashion to the injuries inflicted on his bowlers who, however, manfully stuck to their job and tied down Leyland, Ames, Allen, and Hardstaff to defence. -

E. H. Sewell, in the "Sunday Graphic," says: "The paucity of Australia's attack on a good wicket suggests the future inclusion of Fleet-wood-Smith and Ebeling. Also, I should not be surprised to see a change in the captaincy. If O'Reilly of his own volition was overdoing the policy of keeping down runs and^ letting the batsmen get themselves * out well and good, but if it was at Bradman's order it was perilously near bad captaincy."

Mr. H. A. H. Carson, writing in the "Evening News," considers England's rate of scoring in the face of the amazing weakness of the Australian bowling showed unprecedented restraint. It is impossible sufficiently to praise Hammond, but otherwise England's play was desperately dull. Only when watching other batsmen can one realise Hammond's immeasurable superiority.