FORTUNE OF THE TOSS
DECISIVE FACTOR AT OVAL LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN TEAMS. TESTS PLAYED IN CHEERFUL SPIRIT. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) ' LONDON, March 24. The Australian Associated Press says a drawn rubber is an appropriate end ’to the Test series which demonstrated that there is little difference in AngloAustralian cricket strength. The fortune of the toss was a decisive factor at the Oval where the wicket was so good and each side so limited as to bowlers, the winning of the toss meant victory. England drew the rubber largely because Yorkshire breeds a distinctive race of cricketers. The Australians admired the tough fibre of . Yorkshire demonstrated not only at the Oval blit in Sheffield where the Australians suffered a moral defeat. If any Englishman had to rob Bradman of his most cherished records it was appropriate that it should be a Yorkshireman. The Tests were played in a cheerful and harmonious spirit. Sir Pelham (“Plum”) Warner says: “It is certain that the English public will not stand for timeless Tests. I ' consider five days the right length. The Oval wicket is too good and gave a tremendous advantage to the winner of the toss, but England at full strength is a better all round side than Australia.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 8
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