ROBINS' TRIBUTE
AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS "The Australian cricketers will be a magnificent team w.heii they come hero next year, and, believe me, they will be well worth watching." Thus spoke R. VV. V. Robins, first of the English cricket team to arrive home from Australia.
Robins was full of praise for Don Bradman, whose batting, once he got out of his bad patch, was simply "incredible." Badcock, he thinks, is one of the best young cricketers lie has ever seen. O'Reilly's bowling was so accurate that Robins believes he did not bowl a couple of full fosses all through the tests, while Boss Gregory reminded him of Herbert Colline.
Finally, Robins said that, lie had never played in test matches in which there had been such a. friendly atmosphere. The finger of Robins right, hand, still stiff from the injury on the tour, is to be broken and reset, in the .hope that it will regain its flexibility for bowling. If the experiment is "not, successful, there is little prospect of this great little bowler ever playing for .England again.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 8
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