HOBBS SHOULD CAPTAIN ENGLAND
BARDSLEY DEPRECATES AMATEUR LIMITATION,
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 28, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. “ I know it is touching on delicate ground,” says Warren Bardsley in his fourth article in
the “All Sports 'Weekly,” “but the Australian system of choosing a. captain on his merits is preferable to the English system of selecting an amateur, ofteu at the cost of passing over a proved tactician like Hobbs. “ It seems to me that rigid adherence to the idea that a professionmust not lead England may one
day cost England dear, as it has already done more than once. “ My knowledge of Hobbs, who knows Australia and Australian cricket as few living Englishmen do. suggests that he would make a more formidable leader than an amateur who had not been in Australia. “Collins has Australia behind him. Therefore we shall be a happy band, and that is three-quarters of the battle.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 7
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