SPORT'S REVIEW CRICKET MATCH:

Gun Flash, Issue IV, 23 January 1943, Page 2

SPORT'S REVIEW CRICKET MATCH:

n ■♦ fa • x-r ~ <■ **w> fa -m »»*.»• tw.nr . v “FRI^liY’ 1 (150 W!- V.% <’• i ■ . ■ {? CAdTUd“ {304 Bty), . , •! CHALLENGE MATCH - T 7-3 FIRST OF A. :SS<IE3SCR THE WICFdfBH) - NANONS PHANTOM MKRjRNAL cy'P* ? ' I? ;. ■'. Th© day loomed' clear and' blue, not &• cloud tb ?be soon in. the • overcast i sky» The ; ' pitch,* ' equalled only : by LORD’3 was 'in perfect condition* Apart from ; a ; ;dc?:pn ant.hills rising two foot e.buV'e rm?, level, the bowlers '-Had; an ;.’. uninterrupted view of the batmen* The scoring «-> "Prickly” 80 against ' d’Cacti;s” 63 *• was most dis inting?' as our official tallyman. committed the unpardonable sin of ling asleep ; after' the fourth, over, ’ therebylosing' the game for “Cactus"® •< This critic feels that to’ lack comment on the dress of the day would be casting lections on our . “Big Wigs’’ who like to , see the boys . ■ dressed as comfortably as possible ywith ■ the least on that decency allows ’’Cactus” took the field arrayed . as par. official orders:*’ Full web . equipment; respirator; s ide arms; Helmet, steel'; and rifle, oluhgw “Prickly” ■batted with even more . . attention to our national dress , Bull web equipment; Side arms; 50 rds « of ammo»; water tie, filled, (with butterfly bum);; ' respirator, at'. the ' slung position/-Helmet 9 . steel, atop, head; . woodj iron ■rations, in course of By mutual • consent, rifles were, not carried while running between tho'wicketa* ■ ~ a . It w-s n . gwday r th®. lies“who earned the'tin stinted admir-‘ at ion'of ’ the ’’Cactus” for the magnifio “cent "manner/ in which they snatched VICTORY from the throes of DEFEAT ♦ ■