TOOK NO RISKS
BRADMAN'S DISPLAY
REPUTATION ENHANCED
BRIGHT BATTING
' United. Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. ■ (By J. B. Hobbs—Copyright in all Countries —Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden.) (Received February 3, 11 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Unlike England, which after a good opening day threw away its advantage, Australia followed its success on the •third day with another good day. Never losing the grip on the match ■which the bowlers won on Monday, the batsmen played the. sort of innings the situation demanded. They took no risks, yet seemed to miss no opportunity of scoring, so that at the close England was in an extremely perilous position. I am satisfied that the deciding match of this rubber will be played in Melbourne. Hats off to Bradman! He played .a great game and enhanced his already wonderful reputation. It was a different Bradman from the dashing Don we have so often seen. He did not take the slightest risk; the hook which -has proved his downfall in the past and is characteristic of him was eliminated. It seemed that Bradman had "made urj his mind to score a century (6r perhaps a double century and -nothing was going to put him off. ■Bradman and McCabe played the best cricket of the match, batting brightly against, bowlers who tried hard. •""- . McCabe' was scratchy for. the first few overs but afterwards he played beautifully. Gregory was unlucky in having to face a new ball but he did "not inspire great confidence at any time. He was slow and simply made it his mission to stay there and .play second fiddle to his captain. In that "role he was successful, helping in another useful partnership. -• ENGLISHMEN 'PERSEVERED. - Although the Englishmen did not ■'gain1 any medals they won the hearts 'of all by the plucky way they stuck "to their task. Brown • was. dismissed 'rather luckily through a magnificent catch by Ames, but then a long stand ■developed between Bradman and McCabe. This, I think, ended England's chance of snatching the Ashes in Adelaide. : ""■ Verity had a good spell of bowling 'before lunch but could not get anything out of the wicket. I did not' agree with Allen's policy of not bowling Robins in the ninety minutes before lunch. I know Allen wanted to keep the batsmen as quiet as possible, but '1 think that spin bowling was the :: pnly type likely to succeed on the Adelaide wicket. ' I do not expect England to score more than 250 runs in the fourth innings if the Australians bowl as well is they did on Monday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 13
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