ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET
“PUBLIC TIRED OF DRAWN MATCHES’’ (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received May 25, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. “The public are tired of drawn county matches and tame finishes, which are resulting m empty grounds on the third day,’’ says Strudwick, who suggests that declaration should be compulsory when the opponents could win if they scored 90 .runs per hour, the leaders taking lull championship points if seven wickets fall before the close with the total not passed; if Jess than seven wickets are down the side with the best wicket average to take the points. Strudwick adds “this would produce real cricket because the batsmen would be forced to try to score and the bowlers to attempt, to get wickets in the last hours of the game.” Hammond requires 228 to beat Dr. Grace's record of 1900 runs scored in May. “If lie achieves this feat,” says the Standard, “he will be stamped as the finest professional bat since Hobbs emerged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 8
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163ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 8
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