CRICKET IN ENGLAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 7

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

NEW CAPTAIN FOR M.C.C.?

LARWOOD’S FOOT INJURY

WYATT’S BEIGHT BATTING

(Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn,) (Received 1 August 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 9.

The Daily Mirror understands on very reliable authority that D. R. Jardine will never again captain England’s team against Australia.' The newspaper states that it is unable to state whether Jardine made the decision himself in a selfsacrificing attempt to prevent the possibility of further friction with the Australians. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the decision will be widely regretted. The Evening News says Jardine has not officially notified Marylebone that he will! 'not be’available,’to captain the team against Australia, but it is known that ho has informed friends that his business will occupy much of his time in 1934 arid may prevent him participating, in international cricket after npxt spring:' Jardine Tefused to comment. R. -E'. S. Wyatt has been appointed to captain England against the West Indies. Turnbull will replace Jardine in the team,. and / Gregory is twelfth man in-stead-bf Tqwjnserid; who*, is .injured. ,Confirmation is lacking of the;report that Jardine will not 1 again captain Eng-, land against'' Australia. The M.'C.C. States: “If Jardine has come to such a decision he might not intimate it till the necessity arose.” “I doubt if I shall ever again bowl fast,” Harold Larwood told a Daily Mail reporter. It is explained that his foot is no better than, when it was first injured ; the joint of , the big toe has gone. Larwood says he could get no answer when he asked the doctors what chance there was of a complete recovery. “At tliis moment I can’t run a yard. Every morning when I wake, the pain in my foot is terrible,” he said. “I am doubtful about my future. It is useless concealing the fact any longer. The foot is as bad as ever.”

Dr. Robert Hogarth, one of the doctors who examined Larwood, asked for an opinion on the suggested possibility that Larwood would be unable in future to bowl fast, said: “I have reason to believe that he will.”

Commencing a match against the West Indies, Warwick in the have lost seven for 367, Croom making 86 and Wyatt 150 not out.

BODY-LINE BOWLING

FUTURE OF TEST CRICKET

LONDON, August 3

The Daily Telegraph gives prominence to an article by Mr. George Campbell Dixon, hoaded “Future of Test Cricket in the Balance,” in which lie says: “The most serious Australian complaint is that the M.C.C. threw all its pretence of impartiality when it announced that it stood by the captain of the English test team without inviting Australia to •sehd witnesses. Thus the club struck a blow at its prestige which it will take years to recover. Ihe truth is that the versions of .D. R. Jardine, who captained the team, and IT. Larwood differ vitally from the testimony of a great number of other witnesses, including Mr. P. F. Warner, one of the managers of the team, J. B. Hobbs, and an eminent Adelaide citizen who was stationed behind the sight screen, and who counted 34 out of 72 balls bowled by Larwood which were directed, intentionally or not, at the batsman’s body.” Mr. Dixon concludes: “I wish the article could be Entirely non-controver-sial, but it is necessary to state the case in order that the English public mav realise that there is something beyond disappointed malice in the Australian attitude.”