BATSMAN'S "DROP-KICK"
During the tour of the New Zealand cricket team W. M. Wallace was very successful with a shot called tho "dropkick." He employed the stroke with profitable effect against the left-hand Victorian howlers, L. O'B. FleetwoodSmith and E. L. Bromley. 311 playing tho shot he steps forward and takes the hall on tho half volley from off the off or middlo stump and despatches it with a kind of pulled drive to tho region of square-leg. It is a most unusual and effectivo stroke, especially against howlers who have never seen it before, and 'consequently do not know how to place a field to cope with it. It yielded the batsman three sixes and several fours at Melbourne, and gave, him four fours and a six off H. Verity in the first test in England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 22
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137BATSMAN'S "DROP-KICK" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 22
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