FINE BOWLERS NEEDED
BRITISH CRICKET TOUR OF AUSTRALIA “AWFUL CONDITIONS” (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) Reed. 2 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. The cricketer A. E. R. Gilligan, addressing the Brighton Boys’ Club, said England’s chief need for the Australian visit was fine bowlers, who could stick the awful conditions. They were all right when they were tried in England, but bowling for two days on a wicket like a hard-baked gritty road made their hearts and arms ache. The English eleven would carry out the Sussex motto, “The worse the total against us, the better we stick it Sussex was reaping the benefit of the nursery started in 1922. ®® r '•oungsters were displaying their worth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 13
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