STRESS OF CRICKET
POSITION EXAGGERATED MAILEY’S COMMENT The suggestion raised once more that a cricket tour through England is over-strenuous is all bunkum, states Arthur Mailey in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Although the programme was arranged without any consideration for the comfort of the players, it is not a very trying ordeal to survive a trip to England with an Australian eleven. As a fact, Australian eleven players spend so much time in shirt factories, pottery works, or on golf links, that if they are tired, they cannot possibly blame cricket. I have seen players, myself included, gulp a quick breakfast, rush off to a clothing factory, and watch the dull business of trousers being made until it is time to go to the ground. If the pitch is under water, they go to the golf links and walk four or five miles. That does not suggest physical tiredness. It must be remembered that bowlers spend only about half the match on the field, or three ss-hour days a week. It is not nearly as strenuous as tram-conducting or bricklaying.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19891, 20 March 1939, Page 11
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