DULEEPSINHJI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19551, 6 August 1925, Page 4

DULEEPSINHJI.

NEPHEW OF RANJITSINHJI. Is he going to be. another Ranji? That is what cricketers are asking and arguing when the name, of Dulcepsinhji crops up (writes “Googly” in tho Daily Mail). It crops up incessantly just now. K. S. Dulcepsinhji, lato of Cheltenham, now of Cambridge, and presently. of Sussex, is easily the most talked of young cricketer of the year, and always the talk works round to his uncle, tho over-famous K. S. Raiijitsinhji. It can safely bo said at once ihat Duleepsinhji is already an exceptional batsman for a university undergraduate, liis uncle has given him much priceless coaching, and it is said that Rhodes has put him down as the finest and most, promising young batsman, amateur or professional, who has come into first-class cricket since the war. A slim youth, Duleopsinhii is almost without mannerisms at the wicket. Ho has neither the balloon-like silk shirt nor any of those pronounced panther-liko movements which used at once to direct attention to his uncle. Quickness of eye and perfection of body balance are two things that immediately strike yoa about ids bais.matiship. lie evidently secs the fcal’. so “early” that ho nearly always has ample time for his stroke, and his poise is so good that ho gets full weight behind his bat. Duleepsirihii has not, so far, made a succession of arresting scores, and it is more in his promise than his achievements that everyone is interested. He has still a lot to learn, but it needs only half an eve for a player to see. that here is one very much out cf tho ordinary. Ho may even ho a r>olontial England player. At present too many of his off-side strokes go straight to fieldsmen, he is apt to Aide at a ball outside the off stump, and he has to prove himself a master on a bad wicket.