THE ISSUE DECIDED?

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 15

THE ISSUE DECIDED?

BRADMAN'S INNINGS

CRICKET AT ITS BEST

ENGLAND'S HOPE

United Tress Association—By Electric Telscraph—Copyright. (By J. B. Hobbs.—Copyright »n all Countries—Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden.) (Received February 4, 11 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The cricket was at its best and England did better than I expected. I anticipated more runs from Australia and I feared that England might lose more wickets. It might have been done, too, if the Australians had held their catches, for Barnett was missed once and Hardstaff twice.

I think England's only hope rests with Hammond and Leyland. I expected the bowlers would get more nip out of the wicket than they did.

Bradman's was a remarkable innings by an astounding cricketer and it doubtless decided the issue. There has never been such a prolific run-get-ter and we may never again see his like. He passes from record to record until there seems nothing more for him to beat. His innings this match enhanced his greatness. It proved he can play the fighting game with his back to the wall. In the past he has scored hundreds of runs with his own trade-marked hook shot, but once or twice this season he got out with it so he eliminated it. The fact that he made his seventh double-century in Tests against England makes one realise his genius. It looked absolutely impossible to dismiss him. HEART-BREAKING TASK. It must have been heart-breaking to bowl against the broad-bladed Don, but the bowlers gave no clue of their secret feeling of helplessness and hopelessness, a feeling which must have been shared by fieldsmen, but they, too, stuck to their task manfully. Ames's work compared favourably with Oldfield's and that is high praise. The twenty-two-year-old Gregory today played with more confidence and more strokes. With this experience he should go straight ahead, and with Badcock, of whom I hold a still high er opinion, he ought to keep his place in the Australian eleven for many years. Chipperfield's was a bright effort, full of strokes timed so as to get amazing power. Hammond, finishing with the wonderful figures of five for 57, was helped by two great catches by Ames. Verity kept dropping them on the spot without looking like getting wickets.