DEVASTATING FORM
New Zealanders will recall the name of the tall swerve-bowler Lisle Nagel, Hashing into the cricket headlines a few years ago with a sensational performance in Melbourne that won him a Test cap. Now he is again producing form lo warrant attention by the test selectors. it an Australian side had lo be picked to meet England this season, there would probably be a deputation to Lisle Nagel beseeching him lo return to big cricket for the occasion, stales a Melbourne writer. An Australian eleven nowadays would not be complete without this genial giant. Although 114, he maintains his devastating form with remarkable consistency, and stands out as the best of his type in I lie Commonwealth, and second only to O'Reilly among bowlers of ail kinds.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20143, 12 January 1940, Page 3
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