CRICKET.
PRITCHARD’S BOWLING. The complaint that Now Zealand's best fast bowler of the last season, T. L. Pritchard (Manawatu) wasted time between the delivery of each ball was made at a meeting of delegates to the Now Zealand Cricket Council by Mr H. E. Lawrence, but members of the council wore not prepared to support the complaint, states the Christchurch Press. Mr Lawrence said that Pritchard took a very long run, but instead of making his way hack to his starting point while .the ball was being returned from the field he waited some yards clown the pitch. When he did walk back it was at an extremely leisurely pace. Mr J. L. Kerr, thought it was useless trying to dictate to a bowler how he was-to bowl, as long as there was no deliberate waste of time. He was entitled to conserve energy. “It is fast bowlers we are looking for in New Zealand,” said Mr Kerr, “and if we can get another as good 1 think wo should be happy to let him take even longer.” Mr Lawrence said that the apparent dilatoriness might be unconscious and that if it were pointed out to the player concerned there might be , an improvement without in any way affecting bis conservation of energy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19400501.2.99
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 8
Word Count
213CRICKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in