RETIREMENT OF MAILEY.
A GRE.IKT SLOW BOWLER.
BETTER AVERAGES DESERVED.
Arthur ]VJa Jiley has announced his withdrawal froija, first-class cricket this season to devote Irimself to writing and illustrating tho English matches for a syndicate of Aup fralian newspapers, says an Australian ] japer. Mailey has been ,for years one <)f the most interesting personalities ai riong the leading players of Australia. If is sinile is perennial. His interest in t lo game and those who play it is very gfltnuine. And at his best he has been a jgrcat slow bowler and always a gooc 1 team cricketer. History ■will probabl. f not do justice to his merits as a I lowler. The commentator of tho future n *riy dissect his achievements in tho light C>f cold figures, and place him on a lo\ |er niche in ,the temple of famo than he is entitled to. Of all the filow bowlers of the rightband leg-break variety we have seen he has been the flightiest. lie has been able to make the ball cut more variable capers in the nir- than any of the others, and especially when the wind has suited him.
If Arthur A fculoy hurl been handled as G. H. S. Tro'ft and the captains who succeeded tl» J-t rare artist handled the fclow bowlers of their time, lie would have built, U|V» a finer record tliafi that attached to hi y name m the Tests against England. He is a far better bowler than the average c &st of his' wickets implies. In England in 1921 he averaged 33, in • the next serifi j out hove 41, and in the last scries in ] England 53 runs per wicket in the Tests. 11 is best series was that in 1920-21, in . Australia, when be secured 36 wickets at tn average of 26. At that time ho had a Jjetter command of length than in the hi tt few years. In Sheffield Shield cricket Mailoy has taken a greater number of wickets than any other New South Wales howler, but iV 1 ! . be, ' n center than (hat of captured m «\°! ° Uler If « captured 175 -,y tckets in the.se matches SV'Ss. "* 1892 - 3 »' »
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20087, 26 October 1928, Page 20
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363RETIREMENT OF MAILEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20087, 26 October 1928, Page 20
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