ENGLISH CRICKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 8

ENGLISH CRICKET

STRUGGLE FOR THE ASH6S. BRADMAS THE PROBLEM. LONDON, May 10. Although cricket has only just begun in earnest, public interest and the musings of the experts are concentrated upon the selection of the next team lor Australia at the end of the seasonThe discussion again revolves around Bradman. Argument has begun as to who would make the best captain for Eng. land. The experts, including Gilbert Jessop and H. C. Carson, cricket writer of the Evening News, consider that the choice rests between Jardine and Chapman. Mr. Carson especially emphasises the team’s need of a first-class wicketkeeper of the type of Oldfield.

It is realised that Bradman, who has become a real bogeyman, always takes full advantage It given a “life.” Mr. Carson urges the necessity of having a captain who will never stop trying to dismiss Bradman, and a manager who will keep up the team’s spirits when Bradman is batting for two days. A. E. Gilligan still holds that the odds are 3 to 1 on England, but. the Daily Mail, in a leading article, earnestly hopes for the discovery of young players of high quality among those who were not selected in 1930. when Australia, captured the ashes with disconcerting ease. It. will be a pleasant surprise if the season reveals a new Larwood or an other Tate capable of discomforting Bradman on cast-iron wickets, a slow left-hander of the calibre of Rhodes, and batsmen as steady as Hobbs and Sutcliffe.