CRITICS ANALYSE TESTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 556, 8 January 1929, Page 9

CRITICS ANALYSE TESTS

ENGLISHMEN’S SUCCESS

COMMENT IN BRITAIN

(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) '(Australian and N.Z. Press Association)

Reed. 12.35 a.m? LONDON, Monday. It is stated that there is a likelihood of an Australian tour of Britain in 1930, including a match against the Gentlemen.

F. E. Woolley comments that the English cricket team in Australia performed phenomenally well in the third test match. The secret of its success had been the absence of jealousy and bickering. To his knowledge some English teams had not been so happily constituted. Team work had been the basic principle upon which the triumph had been built. Telegraphing from Cobham the Dowager Lady Darnley presented the ashes to the Marylebone Cricket Club. In an interview yesterday she saicl it was the wish of her husband that the ashes should eventually go to Lord’s. The urn containing the ashes is now in the museum at that ground. WARNER’S PRAISE

Mr. P. F. Warner, writing in the “-Morning Post,” says Chapman is young, but when his hair has whitened with age he will never forget the glorious moments of August IS, 1926, and January 5, 1929, when he led England to victory, regaining and retaining the ashes. Everyone is anxious for two more English victories to wipe out the Armstrong’s s—o affair in 1921.

The writer advocates that the test match trial fixed for June 8 should be between Chapman’s team and the Rest of England. He pays a tribute to Chapman for his keen cricket brain, behind a boyish manner, but says frankly he did not like him putting his side upside down when only 15 runs were needed.

The Sydney test match should have been fought seriously and grimly to the end. There seems to have been too much light-heartedness in the final minutes at Melbourne when it became a near thing. A match was never won until the last ball had been bowled, especially against the Australians.

AUSTRALIA’S NEED

Lord Tennyson, writing in the ‘ Daily Chronicle,” says: “I hope Chapman’s men will go on and win all the test matches. After a long period of depression it was time the tide turned our way. The Australians should be very proud of the manner in which their young players have shown the old fighting spirit. “Their crying need is a high-class, fast bowler, a spin bowler who will take advantage of broken wickets. Although such bowlers may not at present be available, in view of the resources of Australian cricket there is no doubt they will soon be discovered.” The “Post” says: The acid tests are over. In the more placid remaining two tests the Australians will be well advised to give their young players an opportunity to gain test match experience. This will give them a better chance of succeeding or deserving to succeed in England.

The Earl of Darnley, who died in 1927, captained the English team which visited Australia in 1882-3. After the English team had won “‘the ashes,” the wickets used in the match were burned and the ashes placed in an urn, which was presented to Lord Darnley (then the Hon. Ivo Bligh).

GRAVE DISAPPROVAL

PLAYERS AND THE PEN

SYDNEY. Monday

The Australian Board of Cricket Control views with grave disapprobation the ill-feeling caused by test match players writing for the Press. It has issued an edict intimating that it will decline to approve of players in test matches, either in Australia or in England, who offend in this manner in future. The players concerned are Ponsford, Woodfull, Hendry and Kellaway.