"BURSTING OF BLADDER OF ENGLAND'S CHANCES"

Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 7

"BURSTING OF BLADDER OF ENGLAND'S CHANCES"

CA^STIC CRITICISM OF bVv-wd • " : ' ENGLISH LEADEEBIIII' jByithejK.Z. Press Assueiatiou';; Speeliil 1 "•'-Represeutatlve, Neville Carilus.) " 'iteceived Tuesdav, 1 a.ni. i . y'.T... MILBOURNE, Jau, 6. | . ' England '11 second inuingu ha.; begun f 'aOy'cyiiiidehtly and prosperouJy tLat it ; ^omorrow a yeore oi' 3oU ur thcreal.'uuto j L /Jpade sdrne pretty iruny will in-'j 1 taStedTaa we reeo.leet that wha u ?.!«. j 1 t?op| ;:wa& out Loday the mateh wa.; L» y 1 1 ' no /ine.ins Australia 's. Only tOru'1 uot J eaea'jdtly' ;pia9terful batsmeu vrere teit t o j | H'qlj^-ythe remaining vviekels. ...Tiit Lng ; \ tis|iviittdCk in this eril teal penod did j poi- 'nb'etl: even to bu putienl iy mastrred. Incredibly it went lo pioeos dr, lct ;n; Sltyp to rags aml tattera bui'orc an offeh^iye euiiducLed by a fast buwler tfhxl'^'atuinper! .? »4-'Ap-pbiieies were opua lo England - eithfr'. to .bowl to save runs aud, as £riekjet§rs say, stitch up the game, or *.to. tpk$,' risks with tlie attaelc aud setd; tb 'bnpg the Austraiiau innings quieklv t0.ah :end. It was uot casy io duduce from obscrvation whieh of these plans was - being ■ ehforced. ' Wright did no> coino; into; action at all until a quartei' of .'an hour beforc tlve interval. Aftei Edrftth 'iiad opened erratieally Voci . #t»k'*'Kls?.'plhce and w.as.steady if not dfen gfef ?%; |f jw a|" fe^i.oydfs, and 'now ^dtjef |ole|a{t!>ly 1 steady ' amf dfe^bnally inore 'th[an that only a few stiofed in half an hour. j q.fjihKh Edrieh was cailed baek, by " Whi&btime Bedser had worked haid foi tyii' '-ftwif and Yardley did not bowl at all; .lintil tv^enty past two — presumably f6f. fioihe feasoi. i S- ,BMi^r ehjbyed excellent overs but • 6yb'n:-vhe .niaintained no consisteney of . feiigih'. of tacties. MeCool when he is Seeki'ng; runs sliould be pinned down by .good leugth near his off stump. 11#aA hljow'ed to eiploit his favourite 011 side'- gt-rokes too frequently. When he .Was". eaught at the wieket he was sevb4th oiit at 341. Tallon made quick 4nd 4^?^ ruhs from Edrieh and the tirtn'g. Bedser, who was lcept on until lqnch', eompelled him into rest and sur--c.base. . . ' Australia was leading by 356 at the faU- bf the seventh wieket. There was yet a, chance for England to score, say, iess-than 400 in a day and a half if Lindwall, Dooland and Toshack, none of therh a batsman of insurmountable techni(jue, could be settled quiekly. Tip'afihe 'the Australians at such a POSitxon! Invisible and electrically chafged; barbed wire would have eonn6cf|d. iielbisman with fieldsnian. Every run- . would have been made only by grim sweat.pf the brow. . " Yardley was taken off after oue over. Ttue.he^was hit for twelve in it, but pplicy that is reversed after oue abnorinal event is no policy at all. '.Tallon,' played to the occasion with ulL the f.rej.entiess -opportunism of an Ausifalihn, and Lindwall nearly caught al tjji4 Wieket as soon as he came iu "e|neif^ed from palpable error and inor- - Tal'lpn and Lindwall made at this crucjial nioment a massacre of the bowl- • They hclped themselves to 151 wfth hp ftewer than 110 smitten all over the: flhld in less than an hour after lunyh, It. vvrap,ah anti-climax to lovera oi' uuSp^riiig sport. It was a harlequinade, puxdcl fhe-'red lxdt poker and clowus aud Ha.ibiH^es' nxiglxt have appeared at any hxiniltp. Such a bursting of the bladder j of Tjhglknd's clxance would xxevev have beeii-f ernxitted if Yorkshire had been ; pt^iydijig for England. They mighl j h^ve"; lost gfip but only after a terx'ible j ipltrtyddxnTeaviug tlxem flat ou the rnat. !