COMING CRICKET TESTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 8

COMING CRICKET TESTS

evenly’ balanced • ‘TERRIBLE BRADMAN’ ’ VIEWS OF ENGLISH CRITIC (Kin'. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Oet. f>. Mr. Robertson Glasgow, in an article in the Morning Rost on the subject ol the cricket, tests between England and Australia, says: — “[ consider the scales have seldom been so evenly balanced. Almost everyihing depends on three men, .tamely, Bradman, O’Reilly and Hammond. They are the three most important cricketers in the world. “Grimmett’s admirers will probably demur at this judgment, but this wonderful little mail 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 mellowed since he first went to Australia, and is now 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 have almost been teethed. Robins is not the bowler of five years ago. f-iims is brilliant and reliable in success,' but negligible in failure.”