A Grand Virtue.
According to the cabled report of the fourth cricket Test between Australia and England, at Leeds, R. E. S. Wyatt missed two very hard catches from W. H. Ponsford. Just how fiard they were may be gauged from this note by Neville Cardus, most famous of cricket critics: “A grand virtue of the match was Wyatt’s fielding; he saved innumerable runs, and he nearly caught Ponsford twice by agility pricked on by imagination. When Ponsford was 155 he pushed forward to Verity, and Wyatt at silly-point flung all his life ?nd limbs at a ghost of a chance, and nearly held the ball, but he crashed to earth and jarred all his nerves; the prize eluded him. But when Ponsford Was 178, Wyatt again at silly-point tried to hold a terrific drive; the effort at a catch was either incredible faith and courage, or was prompted by. reflex action and the instinct for self-preser-vation.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 11
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157A Grand Virtue. Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 11
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