"GANGSTER CRICKET"
USE OF BODYLINE
SCATHING CRITICISM
(Received April 10, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, April 9.
Urfder a chapter ■ heading, "Torso BoWling,"^ E. ;H. D. Sew.cli scathingly criticises body line bowling in: his book "From a Window at' Lord's!"; . ' ■;.'..
"Of all the blunders'" committed, on the cricket', field,":1 -he, ■'writes, '"even though its; commission helped to, win. a Test rubber, intensive fast bowling with,: a regular synod 'of six, seven, or'eighth men; on the.leg side was the worst. :'.lt was only a kind'of gangster cricket and - the only merciful; thing was* that it did not happen at Lord's."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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