IMPRESSIONS OF THE CRICKET TESTS.
Now that the tumult and the shouting has died down the critics will no doubt be able to give dispassionate consdeiration to the lessons from the test match. The result of the game has shown that the Australians could go on for ever; indeed, Bradman has established a new recordhaving scored only five boundaries in a day’s batting! And yet pontifical cricket writers in England had nothing but condemnation to say about the “Nottingham boys” who had conceived the false illusion that they had paid their good money at the gates to witness a cricket match. England, on her part, had the attack to dismiss the class batsmen, but it was the tailenders who defied the bowling might of England and really pulled Australia out of the danger of defeat!
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 6
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135IMPRESSIONS OF THE CRICKET TESTS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 6
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