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ALLEN’S CRITICISM.
MEANS DULL CRICKET.
Outspoken Comment By Test Captain.
Press Association—Copyright. Received 12.30 p.m. Sydney, To-day. The English Test captain, Allen, when speaking at a social function, answered the criticism of England’s slow bowling in the second Test. He ascribed the tactics employed to Australia’s system of Test matches without a time limit.
“If you are going to play matches that go on indefinitely, the side winning the toss and going in says ‘The longer we stay in, the worse it will be for the opposition, as the wicket will wear.’ If there is limited time for cricket and you win the toss, you say, ‘We must get the opposition in on the fifth day; we must get on with the game.’ If you have limitless cricket you always have dull cricket. I have always advocated time limits, and when I go back to England I shall, urge it all the more.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 362, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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