COMING CRICKET TESTS
SCALES EVENLY BALANCED LONDON CRITIC’S OPINION (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, sth October. Mr 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 are the three most important cricketers in the world. Grimmett’s admirers will probably demur at this judgment, but 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 be an act of Providence and not of man. O’Reilly combines pertinacity and guile in a manner seldom achieved. Hammond has mellowed since he first went to Australia, and ns now even more dangerous. “I cannot think that Voce will succeed without the inspiration of Larwood. Fames tends too often to bowl into the batsmen from the off, which is the method on which Australians' were almost teethed. Robins is not the bowler of five years ago, and Sims is brilliant and reliable in success but negligible in failure.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 6 October 1936, Page 5
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