FOUR-DAY TESTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 12

FOUR-DAY TESTS

DRAWN GAMES IN 1938 OFFING LONDON, Nov. 1,7. The Britisb Board of Control for Tests has decided that the matches next summer will be four days, with the last played to a fihish if, after the conclusion of the fourth, the difference ir.- matches is not greater than one. The change Is designed to keep interest in the rubber to the end. It will prevent a repetition of happenings in 1935, when South Africa won the second Test at Lord's and concentrated on drawing the next two," said a prominent M.C.C. official. An effort is bsing made to have Test matches begin at 11.30 a.m. each day instead of at 11 a.m., as is the rule after the first day. It is contended that it is unfair to ask men to play 25 hours' cricket before lunch. (More'drawa games are likely to be recorded, comments the Sydney Referee's cricket writer, Two of the five were drawn four years ago, Australia winning '"hc first, England the second, with the third and fourth drawn and the final played out by Australia. Two were also drawn in 1930, In 1926 only one match had a definile result, it being the final at J the Oval played t- a flnish, the first four.hflving been fbrcfi-.day,