BRIGHTER CRICKET
j'IIOUOH'MUNT TO BATSMEN SYDNEY MAN'S OFFER The Marrickvillc Cricket Club's supporters have subscribed £lO to be given to the player scoring a century in the fastest time during. the season, states a Sydney writer. The object is to provide brighter cricket, and if keen followers oi other clubs were to act similarly; there is no doubt some rapid scoring would be accomplished. Players are not asked to provide slogging exhibitions, but to score from balls which should be punished. Too often half-volleys and long hops are shaped at by batsmen as if they were good-length balls. That applies net only to club cricket, but aiso to bigger games. The principle is, one which Helps to make' Lancashire League cricket so attractive, but in those matches players do net have to wait until the and, of the season, for their reward. Batting and bowling feats out of trie ordinary are acknowledged on the days cf their performance by spontaneous subscriptions from the onlookers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 10
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