TEST PROSPECTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 7

TEST PROSPECTS.

SCALES EVENLY BALANCED

THREE IMPORTANT PLAYERS.

LONDON, Oct, 5. Air Robertson Glasgow, in an article in the Morning Post on the subject of the coming cricket Tests, says:— “I consider the scales have seldom been so evenly balanced. Almost everything depends on three men, namely, Bradman, O’Reilly and Hammond. They arc the three most important cricketers in the world. GrimmetCs admirers will probably demur at tins judgment, hut this wonderful little man cannot forever refuse to be elderly. Bradman is terrible in the way that Walter Lindrum is terrible. His dismissal always appears to bo an act ol Providence and not of man. O’Reilly combines pertinacity and guile in a manner seldom achieved. Hammond lias mellowed since ho first went to Australia, and is now even more dangerous. “1 cannot think that Voce will succeed without the inspiration of Larwood. Faroes tends too often to bowl into the batsmen from the off, which is the method on which Australians were almost teethed. Robins .s not the bowler of five years ago, and Sims is brilliant and reliable in success, but negligible in failure.” THE VICE-CAPTAINCY. NO REGULAR APPOINTMENT. Received October G, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 5. A radio message from the Associated Press special correspondent aboard the Orion states that G. 0. Allen, the captain of the English team, says there will be no regular appointment of vicecaptain during the tour. He will nominate a deputy from time to time whenever he himself stands down.