TACTICS WILL CAUSE STRAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 June 1927, Page 6

TACTICS WILL CAUSE STRAIN

It is apparent that the Dominion cricket team has captured the imagination in England, and that such newspaper captions as “The Ancient Order of Hittites” will play an important part in popularising the players. It is a Napoleonic dictum that attack is the best defence, and the methods of our players in adopting storming tactics in the English stronghold are well vindicated. At the Same time, such tactics will add to the stress and strain of the tour. The team faces a tremendous programme, there being 40 matches in its itinerary. It does not look as if players will spend days resting in the pavilion while comrades stolidly hold up things at the wickets. Such long periods of rest have been enjoyed by English and Australian teams on their tours. Some of those all-day partnerships of Hobbs and Sutcliffe, for example, must have been a big factor in giving the team mates of those batsmen a spell. It is fortunate; in the circumstances, that most of our men are blessed with youth, with its vigour and resilience. Otherwise staleness of the players would appear inevitable long before the end of the tour.