THE CRICKET TESTS
A CRITIC'S OPINION
SCALES EVENLY BALANCED
LONDON, Oct. 5, (Received Oct. 5, at 10 p.m.)
Mr Robertson Glasgow, in an article in the Morning Post on the subject of the cricket tests, says: " I consider that the scales have seldom been so evenly balanced. Almost everything depends on three men, namely, Bradman, O'Reilly and Hammond. They are three of the most important cricketers in the world. Grimmett's admirers will, probably demur at this judgment, but this wonderful little man cannot forever refuse to be elderly. Bradman is terrible in the way that Walter Lindrum is terrible His dismissal always appears to be an act of Providence, not of man. O'Reilly combines pertinacity and guile in a manner seldom achieved Hammond has mellowe. since he first went to Australia and is new even more dangerous I cannot think that Voce will succeed without the inspiration of Larwood Fames tends too often to bowl into the batsmen from the off, which is the method on which the Australians were almost teethed. Robins is not the bowler of five years ago. Sims is brilliant and reliable in success, but negligible in failure."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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