M.C.C.’s LAST WORD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 10

M.C.C.’s LAST WORD

ATTITUDE ON BOWLING CONTROVERSY. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 12. Critics and newspapers agree that Marylebone has spoken the last word regarding a barren controversy. The “Star” says: “It Is clear that there will be no bowling at a man In the next tests. The Issue Is dead and the Australians ought to let It lie down.” The dispute between the two bodies arose from the use of leg-theory bowling by the English team In Australia Inst year. After various unofficial and official protests the Board of Control cabled to the Marylebone Cricket Club on the subject of leg-theory bowling: We feel that the continuance of the type of bowling to which exception was taken in Australia, while strictly not In conflict with the laws of cricket, would not be in the best interest- of the game. May we assume that you concur, and that the teams will take he field in 1934 with that knowledge? To this the Marylebone Cricket Club replied on Oct -er 9: Any point of difference between us s-M?ms rather on a question of fact than on any point r* interpretation of the laws of cri ’ et or the spirit of the game. The Marylebone Cricket Club agrees, and has . Aliys agr d, that a form of bov ling which Is obviously directed as an attack by a bowler on a batsman would be an offer against the spirit of the game, and your team can certainly take the field with the knowledge and full assurance that cricket will be played here In the same spirit as In the past., and with th single desire to promote the best interests of he game In both countries, 'i H Australia!, board's reply to this on November 16 was that the board assumed that the club’s cablegram was intended to l ve the assurance asked for . i the board s earlier cablegram. On that understanding, the board said, it would send its team to England next year.