MAGNIFICENT PARTNERSHIP
ENGLAND IN TROUBLE IN FIFTH CRICKET TEST
When the first blows were struck yesterday in the fifth and final engagement of the 1936-37 campaign between England and Australia for the cricket "Ashes," the advantage was wholly Australia's way. In their effort to make history by winning a rubber after having lost the first two Tests the Australians had an initial stroke of fortune when Bradman won the toss from Allen for the third successive time. Expectations that the Melbourne wicket's reputation for liveliness before lunch would cost Australia valuable wickets were not realised, although one wicket fell just before the adjournment, and another immediately, after it. ' This left what C. G. Macartney terms "the might of Australia's batting" together —Bradman and McCabe. These two, in a prolific partnership for the third wicKet, showed no mercy towards an attack which was lacking in variety. Both scored centuries, with Bradman unconquered, and when stumps were drawn Australia were comfortably placed with 342 for three wickets. -Views of commentators on the state of the game are summed up by Macartney, who says that the big partnership "has placed England in a difficult position." A leading English critic blames England for missing chances in the field.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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204MAGNIFICENT PARTNERSHIP Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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