“HOT CRICKET,”

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 January 1933, Page 4

“HOT CRICKET,”

If the game of cricket is going to provide incidents such as have been given prominence in connection with the test matches in Australia, then the sooner visits between Australian and English teams are stopped the better will it be for the game. There is no sport where the policy is to win by fair means or foul. It is unfortunate that the methods adopted by some of the members of the M.C.C. team have produced bad feeling. Larwood has certainly not made himself popular, and his participation in test matches in Australia will in years to come be looked back upon with feelings that will not be kindly towards him. Such popular players as Briggs, Peel, Richardson (one of the fastest bowlers the world ever saw, ranking with “Tibby” Cotter and Erney Jones), and other noted English bowlers of the past, never stooped to what is considered illegal tactics in international games. They played the game for •the game’s sake; always out to win, but not by questionable tactics. No one would ever accuse M. A. Noble of unfair criticism—his nickname among cricket enthusiasts of “Mary Ann” beingsuggestive of “motherly methods”—and when, he condemns Larwood’s attack as vicious there must undoubtedly be something to complain of. Jardine’s team bids fair to go down in cricket history as the most unpopular cricket combination that ever visited Australia.