CHAPMAN AND CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 12

CHAPMAN AND CRICKET

VIEWS ON TEST TEAMS MEN WHO OUGHT TO PLAY LONDON, Feb. 24. Mr. A. P. F. Chapman, who led the English .cricket team to . victory, in 1926, when, the “Ashes’.’ werb won .in this country from the Australians, Arid captained, the team that retained them in the Australian tour in. 19S$, wipl play first-class cricket regularly thjl Summer.. The Australians are coming over to ; try to regain the-mythical trophy. Lust season . Mr.,, Chapman playpd. in only a few* big match.es, but • he has lately . moved from Hytiie, Kent, to Worplesdon, Surrey. .He has i been playing a lot of golf, and he looked very fit.yesterday, .. . , : fob Mi*. Chapman’s opinion, is that England . teams against the .Austyali&ns will contain, very few -“new’’ players. “It does not seem probable,” he said, “that Jack Hobbs, Herbert . Sutcliffe, Maurice Tate,,‘Patsy’ Hendieh, Maurice Leylfoid, Harold Larwood, Frank Woolley, and Walter Hammond —to mention eight .lylio at once ..jump Mb, this mind —can be left out of an England side,, J, . | - V

“Hobbs Has slowed down his batting, hut his presence in a team, has a wonderful moral effect,-and I should hate to see •an England Test ’ tgam go into the field against Australia without kim. . Sutcliffe is a grand Test player, and .1 know no other howler with* the heart of Tate to act as the spear-head of yofir attack. If * young, Larwood comes hack to his form he must, .bo the fast bowler, just as .Duckwprtli, or Arne?, of Kent, whose fine batting helps hi? chances, must 'be the wicket-keeper. So, after adding, a captain, there is only one place left for Freeman, the Kentslow* bowler, or someone else.” BEST BOWLER ABSENT. Discussing the Australiaiq. team, Mr. Cliapman..said: .“I don’t .believe they will be able to get us out twice in four dgySv They are. lt iea ving thej^, - best bowler, Blaclie, behind. Gi’immett is certain to get a lot- of wickets —he is a very, good bowler. > , j “WoodfuU make a,,gppd>. determined skipper, and if lUp|>ax apd 'Jackson, ‘come ,off ! people, will. jjpire their beautiful- battihg. v Jackson has a lovely style, all ‘wrists,' and BbadibAn, their other ‘boy’ star; is equally good, but in a less graceful Way. . 9 Although tlie, Australians are 'bringing so -many players hew. ip this country,..! believe they will turn out.thi.be a very good batting side, and a hist fielding side. , .... .“I think that we shall keep -the Ashes .. t —A*- ja % u:.:r:.L