KILLING TEST CRICKET
LONG DRAWN-OUT MATCHES. . OPINION OF V. Y. RICHARDSON. Speaking at the Constitutional Chib luncheon in Adelaide last week the vicecaptain of the Australian eleven, Mr. V. Y. Richardson, said that, although body-line bowling was endangering the existence of test cricket, interest was also being killed by long drawn-out, slow-scoring test matches. If the bowlers’ powers were to be limited in attempts to prevent body-line bowling, Australia would have to consider a limit of, say, five days for matches. “I can easily understand why bowlers have tried to find some scheme to overcome batsmen who remain at the wicket for hours, using their legs as a second line of defence,” said Mr. Richardson, “but I feel sure that England will not permit the continuance of anything which threatens that code of ethics which English players themselves have built up and so zealously maintained.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1933, Page 9
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