CRICKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21992, 29 June 1933, Page 4

CRICKET

HAMMOND v. BRADMAN

CHRISTCHURCH COMM KNT. (From Our Own CoßP.icsroxnnNT.) LONDON. May 20. The writer of the Sports Diary of the Star bases a paragraph on a communication he has received from Christchurch. He says:— / The Star gets about a bit, and cricket has just as many panicketty followers in other countries as bere. • I have just received a letter from a New Zealand member of the species who had seen one of my paragraphs quoted in his local , paper. , ' It was the one in which I wrote that Hammond's 330 not out against ?se\v Zealand was scarcely equal in merit to Bradmairs 333 not out against England at Leeds in 1930. „..,.,■ "This blatant sort of ridiculous nonsense." writes my bank clerk friend from Christchurch, " may be swallowed by a minority of the British people, but to anyone who knows cricket— apparently the gentleman who wrote the above disclaimer knows nothing about the king of games —such reports area nasty bit of work. Bradman was qnly a flash in the pan." I showed C. C. Dacre, Gloucester s Kpw Zealand, test player, this letter to see if he knew my correspondent. He didn't, but he made two pointed remarks: , , ._ . ' "What! Does he think the New Zealand bowlers who bowled against Hammond were as good as the England men who bowled against Bradman? "Bradman is a great player. You have only to look at his test match figures to see that. Figures speak volumes in cricket." -