Tricky Bowling

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 5

Tricky Bowling

J. B.

HOBBS.)

TEST COMMENTS Fleetwood-Smith Enhancei Reputatioo PITCH HELPED HIM

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(Copyright in all countries. Reprodue* tion in whol© or any part, forbiddeiujj (Received 5, 11.45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Feb. 5, The Australians generally had. greater faith than I that the English batsmen might accomplish tbe apparently impossible. Bipefyiously I had estimated that Huglaiid would score 250 runs in the second innings, so I was only seyen ou|, I hand the day's honours to wood-Smith and Wyatt. IdeetwoodSmith bowled few bad balls; he found the pitch helping him % bit and aada the ball turn considerably and quiokly. He is not a slow bowler throuflb the air, so does not give the batemaa time to jump out to him. Perhaps tbe batsmen missed a few fdtuv from bed balls, but they were watching to aee if it was a googly or a legj-break, and fell between two stools. Wyatt played in hie best fonn. Hfe great effort wae more or leae wwted on a foriorn hope because, after tjhe departure of Hammond and Leylaad, whatever chance England had of briuging off a sensational victory vanished/ Hammond, correctly playing forw%rd to a good length ball, was beaten by

a beautiful off-break. Thus FleetwoedSmith gained his revenge for ihe elights to which Hammond had subjected him in the past. Fleetwood-Smith made the hall perform quter tricks. On.ce Wyatt jumped out, to drive the left-hander and he, the etumps and Oldfield were all beaten, three byes resulting. I think the hall from which Lagr* land was caught waa a wrong-'un. O*Reilly kept on bowlingi in hia own inimitable style, but, strangely he did not look like getting wicketa. So Melbourne is to be the battlaground for the decision of the Teatj rubber. - If to-day' a crowd waa hyateiiealiy glad at the result of the fourth Test after a game pulsating with excitementj and swaying from one Bide tp the other, this is also true of the whple o£ Australia, and the world rocord attendanee registered in Melbourne at ihe third Test is |ertain to be oclipsed.