ENGLAND’S TEST SIDE WAITS FOR BRADMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1029, 21 July 1930, Page 9

ENGLAND’S TEST SIDE WAITS FOR BRADMAN

BEST BOWLERS CHOSEN HOPEFUL VIEW BY CRITICS United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The team to represent England in the fourth test match against the Aus tralian cricketers to be begun at Old Trafford, Manchester, on July 25, ■will be as follows:—Chapman, Duleepsinhji, Robins, Peebles, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Tate, Beyland, Duckworth and Nichols, with Hendren as twelfth man. Behind the announcement of the English team lies a dramatic episode of cricket history, says the “Weekly Dispatch.” At a meeting of the select ors, of whom Hobbs is one. the veteran intimated that he was so dissatisfied with his own form against the Australians at Lord’s and Leeds that he would prefer to stand down for the fourth test match. Hobbs also expressed the opinion that at present he is out of luck. He said he was the last man to wish to retain his place in the team unless he could justify the selectors’ confidence SPIN BOWLERS DEMANDED The veteran’s colleagues acknowledged the spirit of his offer, but insisted upon him playing in what may be the decisive match. Obviously the fact that critics harp on the idea that only spin bowlers can subdue Bradman accounts for the substitution of Robins and Peebles for Tyldesley and Geary in spite of the fact that Bradman invariably is severo on both the amateurs. RISE TO PROMINENCE The “Dispatch” says lan Peebles’s career reads like a boy’s school story. Seven years ago he wus playing in Saturday matches for Glasgow Academy. Warner discovered his abili ties and he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club. He reversed the order of things, making a name in county cricket before going to a university. Once he took 13 Cambridge wickets. He also showed great promise in South Africa Peebles is only 22 years old. A writer in the “Evening Stanard” says Nichols needs less nursing than Larwood. Indeed the new bowlers, he says, inspire fresh hope. It is the best side yet chosen. Robbins and Peebles will confront the Australians with something to which they aro not accustomed. Robbins should not have been omitted at Leeds, because he virtually won the first test match. STUMPS DRAWN EARLY MATCH IN SCOTLAND BROKEN BY PERSISTENT RAIN LONDON, Saturday. The Australian cricketers began a two days’ match against a West of Scotland team today at Glasgow. Rain delayed the start and interrupted play in the afternoon, and caused stumps to be drawn early, when the West of Scotland had lost six wickets for 140 runs. A crowd of 3,000 persons braved the weather to witness the match and see Bradman, who enlivened the game by three times throwing down the wickets from long-on when the batsmen slipped on the wet turf, and when McTavish essayed a mighty hit Bradman jumped and caught the greasy ball near the boundary. Details of the scores are as follow: — WEST OF SCOTLAND First Innings KERR, b Hornibrook 25 ATKINSON, c and b Hornibrook . . 23 McTAVISH, c Bradman, b Hornibrook 10 ALEXANDER, c Hornibrook, b Wall 8 NICHOLSON, b Hurwood 22 TODD, c Woodfull, b Kippax 34 ACKROYD, not out 12 Extras 6 Total for six wickets 140 HOBBS DEFENDS APPEALS LONDON, Saturday. In an article in the “Dispatch” Hobbk says the appeals against the light in the Leeds test match started an orgy of newspaper abuse, most of which was transparent nonsense. It might he a player’s duty to his side to appeal. The appeals at Leeds could not be called frivolous as the umpires upheld them. Hobbs also refutes newspaper writers’ attacks on the competence and impartiality of the umpires.