CRICKET PROTEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16985, 8 March 1923, Page 3

CRICKET PROTEST.

A PLAYER’S VIEWPOINT. Harold B. Busk writes in the tuckland “ Herald ” of Tuesday:— “ On reading this morning the headmgs of your cabled report from Svduev of the. M.C.C. V. N.S.AV. match \ looked hastily at the scores below to see if the Fnglishmen had made .Vi or had reached the 100. I iouud that the poor display complained cl consisted of making 275 against a team containing probably eight international players. Now Air Aim-Bare,, himseu docs not claim international status for Ills team, so that it seems to me a pretty creditable result. On reading, the rather ill-natured report, tilrolls' £ io . unci 't wa» the slowness of tin batting that gave rise to the • cSustic criticism. Of oourse. it was slow. Apart from Chapman, the runs were made by Hartley. Wilson, and ilrand. and. had they been so foolish as to take the advice of the crowd to - have a w.i.ifk.- they would probably have found Scott. Mai ley, Kelleway, Andrews. and Hendry— not a. bad' combination these—only too glad of the tarn. Had Bowtw. Caßhorpe. and -M ■ .carl been the run-getters, the scoring—about sixty to the hour— would have I a-cm faster: but every man to ills style, and. after all. the desire of the spectators for lively cricket is not ta- lust consideration. 3 can picture that gallant fight of Hartley and Brand—neither of them nearly ‘of international class—against a vary formidahle array of first-class talent, ami J am sure that their injured captain--a better judge than the Australian crowd—did not reproach them for not having a whack.’ I an, troubling you merely because I think that there has been lately far too much captious, and often ill-natured, criticism nt our own cricketers, and. as one who has p atl t to t V, ut up wltl ’ il - 1 enter my mild