Cricket.

Putaruru Press, Volume XI, Issue 252, 18 May 1933, Page 1

Cricket.

LEG THEORY.

! “ Conceived for Tests.” i Larwood’s Captain’s Opinion. ’ As the English cricket season commenced this month the following • interview with Mr. A. W. Carr, ! captain of the Notts Cricket Club, of I t which Larwood and Voce are members, and which appeared in a Home 1 paper, will be read with interest:— | “My view of leg theory,” stated Mr. Carr, “is that it slows down j the game and tends to spoil the spectacular side of cricket. At the same time, my duty as captain is to use any legitimate means at my disposal. to win matches; and leg theory | is legitimate. “ I realise the possibility that it ■ w iH be unpopular with some people. But I fail to see that that should , interfere with my ideas of captaincy. “ But do not run away with the I belief that Larwood’s leg theory is j going to be as great a success over j here as it has been apparently in i Australia. As a matter of fact its success over there astonished me. “ The Nottingham team went into committee last year over this leg theory, and hatched the plot, as it were. We conceived it especially for I use in these tests. Two players in : the present test team, I may say, j knew of and told us it would not | work. “ Last summer we tried it out at j Leyton, Manchester and Cardiff. | Frankly, it was not a success. And I I admit I can’t understand why it succeeded in Australia. It has done 1 so, however. Therefore, 1 shall use it. “ To me it will be an alternative. If the atmosphere is such that Larwood can swing the ball, then I shall set the normal slip field. If he cannot swing it, then I shall set exactly the same leg trap that D. R. Jardine has been setting, and Larwood will make the ball break back off the pitch. “ Evidently fast wickets are required for leg theory. Equally important, good fieldsmen are wanted. We have them. “ As I say, I do not like the sort of cricket it is liable to produce. But when the occasion arises I shall most certainly use leg-theory.”