HAS YET TO SEE TEST

Evening Star, Issue 22455, 28 September 1936, Page 6

HAS YET TO SEE TEST

YOUNG TASMANIAN CRICKET STAR I : ■ “Are you fit for the test?” I asked Jack Badcock, the ex-Tasmanian, who is now a South Australian representative cricketer, reports an Australian journalist. Jack almost blushed and modestly waved the suggestion aside. - . • 5 “I’m tremendously keen to see a test,” he naively answered. “Do you know, I’ve never seen one yet.’’ “ But won’t you be playing?” I persisted. “ Ob, it doesn’t look like it.There’s Don Bradman to go in, and hardly more than one likely to be drop--ping out,” lie added. “ Well, you might be twelfth man,’* I ventured.

“ That would be great, but there ar* a lot of others,” replied Jack. in Badcock was not inclined, to ; talk about himself, but when I hinted that playing slow bowling was his weakness it was like touching an electric button. “ It won’t worry me any more,” ha said. “ For the past couple of months Frank Ward, the googly, and I -hava been going to a quiet country; , spot every, week-end to practise, together. Frank has given me lots of hints. JPm quite confident against slows at last. The trouble was that I never had' to face decent slow stuff in Tasmania.”