CRICKETING TACTICS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 7

CRICKETING TACTICS

JAEDINE "UNDER FIRE DISPUTE REGARDING WICKET OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ACTION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY. Dec/ 28 The Daily Telegraph says that to show his resentment at the Hobart umpires' decision to play last Saturday, D. R. Jardine, the English captain, said hewoald not use his regular bowlers and would not bat on such a wicket. That was why Atkinson, the Tasmanian captain, declared the innings closed, to force the position. Jardine's action is to be officially reported to the Board of Control. Before the English cricketers left Tasmania for Melbourne Jardine refused to say anything regarding the criticism levelled at him.

Clem Hill, the former/Australian.player, agrees with J. Darling thai the Australians had played test matches m England on far worse wickets than the one at Hobart on Saturday. The action of Jardine in going to,the chairman of the Tasmanian Cricket Association and ask-, ing him to intervene after the umpires 1 had declared the ground lit for play was not in the true spirit ,of cricket. Jardine's (suggestion that the match • should be forfeited to Tasmania was- too absurd to discuss. • TEST' MATCH COMMENT ; LONDON HOLIDAY TOPICS FEATURES OR THE GAME > LONDON, Dec. 27 In the absence of news thrills over the holidays, the newspapers are giving prominence to pictures of the first cricket test match at Sydney. Writers commented on Sutcliffe's escape, McCabe's courage and the English batting. They also debated the rights and wrongs of Bradman's efforts in. journalism,jand whether Jardine was justified in not risking his star bowlers on the mud-ridden pitch at Hobart. ' "»■ _ J ■ ~,l ENGLAND'S HOWLERS PACE OF LARWOOD AND VOCE ADVICE TO DOMINION BATSMEN? [by telegraph—pres;: association] . _ WELLINGTON. "Wednesday Mr. Walter Fuller, well known in ■theatrical circles, who has returned from an extended visit to Australia, says theshock tactics of ' the "English I cricketers are something to be reckoned with. '' "In the past there has been the legtheory and off-theory in bowling," he remarked, " but these usually have been * adopted -with medium-paced or slow break bowlers. Now you have men like Larwood and Voce, real , express bowlers, who bowl for a man at such a pace that you cannot follow the ball. I firmly believe Ponsford and Woodfull and some of the others were upset by these tactics, as there was no let-up. Each ball seemed to be hurled directly at bodies, not at the wickets," and-the result was that- they were too scared to play them as they would ordinary bowling."

Mr. Fuller added that if New Zealand was going to make any sort, of a stand against England's fast howlers he would advise that our men iallow bowlers to throw the ball as hard as they could at the body of "the batsineri in practice. Otherwise they would never know how to face Larwpod or Voce.