CRICKET.
Australian Press Assn.—United Service CRICKET DISCUSSION. LONDON, May It. The week-end orgy of big scoring is engaging the attention of experts who largely blame the absence of good howlers, combined with hard-baked wickets. George Hirst is ol the opinion that the groundsman holds the secret of hard wickets, heating the bowlers. The only tiling is to take a hit out of the wicket and restore its lile. Something must he done. ,T. W\ 11. T. Douglas says so much cricket is played that it means a tremendous strain on the endurance of a fast bowler. The smaller hall has boomerunged in favour ol the batsman. It is killing the swerve of the howler, simply because it is impossible to swing it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1928, Page 4
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122CRICKET. Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1928, Page 4
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