FEAST OF BATTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 8

FEAST OF BATTING

HARDSTAFF IN FORM

HYNES THE BEST BOWLER

(L'nHeiJ Tress Association—By Electric Te!»- , graph—Copyright. (Received February 17, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Th.is Day. C. G. Macartney, commenting on yesterday's cricket, says that it provided a feast of! batting of quality and quantity calculated to satisfy the

most enthusiastic spectator. The wdckeb conditions were delightful, with no suggestion of trickiness. Oldfield batted somewhat in his old style, crisply and with perfect confidence, i >.-... The Englishmen. were set a formidable task and they set about it seriously. Most of the batting was bright and attractive, containing the element of risk which makes cricket worth while. Worthington was out to a bad shot from a bad ball. The. Barnett-Hardstaff partnership produced the most exhilarating display of batting seen for a long time. I have not hitherto seen Hardstaff in such ' good touch and had no idea that he had such a wealth of good strokes in his repertoire. If he appears at Melbourne next week he will be a batsman to be reckoned with. He plays a lofty drive with great courage and gets tremendous power to his forcing strokes. ' BARNETT AT HIS BEST. Barnett gave one of his best exhibitions, using graceful square cuts and drives despite the fact that the bowling was never loose—on the contrary, it was steady and exacting. Barnett eventually succumbed to a stinging yorker from Hynes. Ames, was very snappy and gave the crowd full measure of entertainment. '.-■■,. The fielding-was excellent and Oldfield was brilliant, making some remarkable saves from leg-side deliveries. Chilvers received rough treatment today and Lush was decidedly lucky with some of his victims. Hynes, however, was menacing and found a beautiful ball for Barnett. The situation at present looks promising for New South Wales.