“Killer” Instinct In Fast Bowlers
I ‘ 5 | “What is the human side to | I your bowling?” Arthur Mailey 1 I asked Barry Scott, Victorian | | fast bowler, the other day. I j Scott quickly said: “There’s no I | human side to fast bowling.” | 1 When I asked the question, | I Mailey continued, a vision came j i to me of a blazing sun, a hard I 1 ground, a lifeless wicket, and | | determined batsmen with bats I 1 as wide as doors. lam quite |
| convinced that a fast bowler, to | be successful, must have a | “murderous” outlook on life. | Boxers call it the killer in- | stinct. To bowl at his top a fast | bowler must work up a real hate | against the batsmen.
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Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 10
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