TEST CRICKET.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17284, 21 December 1927, Page 8

TEST CRICKET.

PRESS AND PLAYERS. .THE POWER OF SUGGESTION. A CONTRAST IN METHODS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Dec. 21. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. Australia shares with England the difficulty of choosing test team selectors, but when a team is chosen the Australians newspapers immediately write up the selected players, describing all as superlatively good; When others read of their performances they wonder how it can be possible to find a team likely to be victorious. Consequently : when the day comes the Australians have their " tails " up and the team is on the high road to victory," says the Earl of Dartmouth, a trustee of the Marylebone Club. "On 'the contrary, the English newspapers begin damning the selectors, and declaring that the majority of the team are comparatively bad. Cricket writers, many of whom are unknown, make up their minds that B ought to be selected, and therefore gibe at poor A, who is disheartened. We are thus on the highway to defeat, whereas we ought to hearten up the team by making them feel that the country has complete confidence in them."