SYSTEM BLAMED
PLAYED-OUT TESTS
ALLEN AGAINST THEM
CRITICISM ANSWERED
(Received February 17, noon.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The English cricket. captain, G. O. Allen, speaking at a social function and answering criticism of England's slow batting in the second Test, ascribed the tactics employed to Australia's system of Test matches without a time limit. "If you are going to play Test matches which go on indefinitely, the side winning the toss and going in says, 'The longer we stay in the worse for ths opposition, as the wicket will wear.' If there is cricket with a time limit and you win the toss you say, 'We must get the opposition in on.the fifth day and we must get on with the game.' ' , "If you have cricket without a time limit you always have dull cricket.,. I have always advocated a time limit and when I go back to England I shall urge it all the more."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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155SYSTEM BLAMED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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