QUICK SCORING.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17982, 29 March 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

QUICK SCORING.

187 IN 139 MINUTES

■Of a recent performance by D. Bradman in Sydney club cricket, “Not Out” writes: When Bradman was caught at cover off a tired mishit by Marks he had made 187 out of 328 in 2 hours 19 minutes, and hit twenty 4’s. He was missed by McGrath at 35 off his own bowling—sharp, but it should have been held. Bradman was never rash. lie never slogged, never made any mishits, was never in trouble with the howling, and showed amazing judgment in dealing with the ball by every type of stroke from the cut, to tiie glance, with drives and puds predominating. He ran between wickets like a flash, and finished as l'rest as paint. Australia has had players with more fascinating styles, such as Trumper was and Kippax is. But we have never seen a more wonderful run-getter on these wickets than Bradman is. An extraordinary thing about it all is that he scores so fast,

places so well ,and so rarely makes a false stroke. He’s Like No One. The more one sees of Bradman the stronger grows the conviction that he is as much a type apart as Trumper was. There is no resemblance between them save that in the cricket of each the ball travels like lightning to the boundary, and each was adept in the use of his feet, in wrist power, and in placing the ball. But no convincing comparison of Trumper and Bradman can be made apart from their value to a side, because they are so utterly different. The English critics expected <a tremendous lot of Ponsford in 1926, and were more or less disappointed because his colossal scores did not materialise- Bradman is quite a different type from Ponsford, and a much faster batsman. I fancy he will provide them with a problem to diagnose. SIX DAYS IN LONDON. The “Orford,” by which the Australians travel to England, will leave Fremantle on March 24, and reach London on April 24. The first match starts on April 30, against Worcestershire, at Worchester. The players wilt accordingly have only six days in London prior to commencing operations, unless they travel ove-lanl from Marseilles and save a little time. The trip through Italy. Switzerland, and France has been eliminated this time, so that the players will go straight to their mission. If the weather be fine the six days will be sufficient for the men to get into condition and form at the Lord's practice nets, hut if rain interferes, as in 1926, the time may be too short. in

Ithat case it may be wise to arrange for indoor practice. Worcestershire, whom they meet first, are weak in i batting, hut in F. Root they possess j at least one very good bowler, whose leg theory tactics upset the 1926 team when they first met him, know- | ing little or nothing about his methods, though they soon became accustomed to them.