ENGLISH CRICKET

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 206, 25 August 1932, Page 8

ENGLISH CRICKET

INCIDENT AT OVAL HOBBS VERSUS HOBBS LONDON, Aug. 23. A cricket controversy has arisen over an incident at the Oval in which Hobbs protested against Bowes bowling dangerously. Bowes, who is extremely powerful and is 6ft. 4in. in height, states that an occasional short ball is legitimate, .and that all fast bowlers in the past have used it. Other Yorkshiremen resent Hobbs’s action in walking down the pitch and sardonically patting the turf a few yards from the bowling crease. Hobbs admits that perhaps he made a mistake, but it was done more in a humorous spirit than anything else. The papers publish extraordinary photographs of Hobbs protesting, surrounded by fieldsmen in the middle of the pitch. Hobbs says he did not accuse Bowes of unfairness, but emphasised the danger of under-pitching. No tempers were lost. Some papers condemn Hobb’s action and others condemn Bowes’s tactics.

AN ALL-INDIA WIN LONDON, August. 23. The All-India cricket team defeated Leicestershire by an innings and 15 runs. Leicestershire made 291 in the second innings. (Snary 124 not out; Palia four wickets for 4 8 runs).

DULEEPSINHJI ILL LONDON, Aug. 23. K. S. Duleepsinhji is ill at the home of his uncle, K. S. Ranjitsinhji. A member of “Ranji’s” staff told a “Standard” repreesntative that it was hoped, but by no means certain, that Duleepsinhji would be well enough to go to Australia. Duleepsinhji is on a special diet, and a doctor sees him daily. H. P. E. Warner and the M.C.C. secretary, Mr. W. Findlay, are among his visitors.