ENGLISH CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1932, Page 6

ENGLISH CRICKET

TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA

BRADMAN A BOGEY-MAN

LONDON, May 17

Though, cricket has only just begun in earnest, public interest and the musing of the experts are concentrated. upon the selection of the next team for Australia at the end of the season, and the discussion again revolves around Don Bradman.

Argument has begun as to who would make the best captain. The experts, including Gilbert Jessop and Mr H. C. Carson, the cricket writer of tile “Evening News,” consider that the choice rests between Jardine and Chapman.

Mr .Carson especially emphasises the team’s need of a first-class wicketkeeper of the type of Oldfield, who would be unlikely to miss Bradman if be gave a chance early in his innings. It is realised that Bradman, who lias become a real bogey-man, always takes full advantage if given a “life.” Mr Carson urges the necesity of having a captain who will never stop trying to dismiss Bradman, and a manager who will keep up the team’s spirits when Bradman is batting for two days.

A. E. Gilligan still holds that the odds are 3 to 1 on England, but the “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, earnestly hopes for the discovery of young players of high quality among those who were not selected in 1930, when Australia captured the Ashes with disconcerting ease. It will be a pleasant surprise if the season reveals a new LarWood or another Tate capable of discomforting Bradman on- castiron wickets, a slow left-hander of the calibre of Rhodes, and batsmen as steady as Hobbs and Sutcliffe.