CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1924, Page 3

CRICKET.

[Reuters Telkokams.] LONDON. .July 13. Armstrong made his first cricket appearance in 'England .since 1021 and lie nit with hi-, accustomed freedom Hid scored ninety-throe out of Bicklcy Park’s total of 200 against Bromley’s 145. He also took I for 24. CRICKET CRITIC. (Received this dav at 10.25 n.m.) LONDON. July 13. RnnjitjSingi writing in the .Sunday Express, declares scarcely any of the present English test team playing the South Africans would have been regarded as worthy of a place in 1012. He attributes the decline in the standard of English cricket, first to the war’s heavy toll of young men: secondly. to the tremendous vogue of Hie two eyed stance, which he prefers to call the two shoulder stance and to the abuse of back play, which lias I veil reduced to such an absurdity that County cricketers were back playing even to Full pitches and half volieys, with the result that batsmen eliminated every single shot, capable of dealing effectively with anything except a long hop or a halt volley on the off-side. He considers Parkin in his .day, the only howler who would have been considered high-class a decade ago.