“PART OF CRICKET"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 12 October 1934, Page 3

“PART OF CRICKET"

LEG THEORY BOWLING SIR S. .JACKSON’S VIEWS LONDON, Sept. 29. “T want to make a small statement which, for obvious reasons, I did not think it advisable to make before,” said Sir Stanley Jackson, in opening a cricket club bazaar at Huddersfield. “Leg theory has been employed in first-class cricket as long as I can remember,” lip went on. “Wain wright and Haigh were successful exploiters of it, bowling on the wicket when the ball was turning, with two, and generally three, short legs. “Moreover, despite an eminent cricketer saying that it was well-known that I was violently opposed to leg theory, I practised it whenever I had a chance before he was born. “I believe that, properly practised, it is a fundamental and necessary part of cricket. It always has been and always will he played. “Those who exploit it to-day have some, good bowlers.” Sir Stanley Jackson added that what everybody wanted to know was how to eliminate dissensions and differences. H anything undesirable had crept into the game, it would be dealt with bv authority. The cricket world expected it to deal with it.