FALCON COMMENTS ON HOLYPORT MATCH.
i SAME AUSSIES WILL NOT FACE TEST TEAMS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 1, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. Sportsmanlike comment, bearing out the general opinion on the Holy port match wn,s made by Falcon, who said: “Make no mistake the Australians at Holyport were not the same Australians who will face the test teams. They will then be the same grim lighters that the Australians always are. “It is absurd to judge their test play upon the Holyport match. The wicket ! was one of the worst possible. J am sure that none of the Australians ever played before in such conditions. It was just a pleasant match under oldfashioned country-house conditions with a team of jolly good fellows. “They were good sportsmen who played the game with zest and keenness. The idea was to show the Australians that there is another kind of English cricket than that habitually seen in tests and i counties matches. Ninety per cent, of the matches in England are played round the corner, so to speak, on pleasant meadows and village greens, without the grim keenness displayed by first-class cricketers.*'
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17835, 1 May 1926, Page 9
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