THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1987.
BRADMAN'S BATTING
ANALYSED
HE SCORED MOST WHEN PLAYING BACK
"CHAINED DOWN" BY VERITY
London, February 1. DON Bradman's preference for strokes made from within the crease is becoming more marked than it was earlier in his career, judging by his batting methods in his "come-back” innings of 270 in the third Test match.
Although the Australian captain has often shown that he is an accomplished driver, he favoured shots square with the wicket and behind it to such a degree at Melbourne that his back play. brought him all but 87 of his 270 runs. That innings is exhaus- tively analysed in an article in the Melbourne Herald.
Capt. Gillespie, above, gave a rousing display in the Irish pack against Wales last Saturday on the Club ground, when the latter team won by 31 clear points.
FANLING
RESULTS
The following
AUSTRALIAN
TEST TEAM'S
DARK HORSE
New Fast Bowler In Nash?
CHIPPERFIELD ON INJURED LIST
(By “ADREM”)
The chief feature of the Aus tralian Test team to meet England in the deciding game of the series to be played at Melbourne, ^^com® a mencing next Friday, is the inclu sien of Nash, who, I understand. is a fast bowler.
Among the younger Australian cricketers who are on the verge of International recognition, one frequently comes across the names of Lee, White, Marks and Tallon, but nowhere can I find mention of Nash,
The theory that, for most of the of that, while batting at the WEEK-END GOLF his Test career, Bradman bas north end, he made only seven scor-
Thirteen players have been no- minated and of these Bradman, shown his greatest strength in ing strokes in this manner, for nine
-Fingleton, were week-end Brown,
Fleetwood- back play, finds some support, it runs. Most of the overs sent up to is stated, in his performances in him at that end were by Verity. golf results from the Fanling Smith, McCabe, McCormick, Old-
} courses 1---.
field, and O'Reilly are certain of in- Tests against England in both Allen Sims and Hammond.
At the south end he played 19.
་་ countries-four centuries in 22
K. S. Robertson (4) beat W. Sharp clusion. This leaves three places Test innings in Australia (now forward off strokes, which yielded (12) 5 and 4 in the Final of the Cap-to be filled by five players, namely,
Gregory, Badcock, Rigg, five in 26 innings), compared 129 runs. Thus, in his 71⁄2 hours attain's Cup (1936).
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking: with six centuries in 15 Test in-the wicket, he played only 26 for-Corporation beat Butterfield and Swire and Nash.
ward shots to the off for 38 of his in the Final of the G. M. Young Cup. nings in England.
270 runs.
G. A. Stewart 87-15 .72 qualified for the Captain's Cup (1937) played over the New Course. Two other competi tors also competed, and tied, but later scratched.
ENGLISH WICKETS This indicates that the slower
"CHAINED DOWN” BY VERITY wickets in England, making back A curious aspect of Bradman's play more important, have suited innings was that he scored only 95 his technique. Although this has from the north end, compared with been recognised by close students 175 from the south end. of his play, not many imagined that Contributory factors were that he had become so largely a back Verity chained the Australian skip- player that this part of his batting per down for long periods at the 143 would bring him 193 of his 270. north end and Bradman was
Bradman played 163 scoring before he made the first of his rare strokes in his innings, of these, 57 sorties from the crease to play the were hooks, cuts and pushes-ap-Yorkshire left-arm bowler.m proximately square with the wic- [At Adelaide Verity bowled 37 ket for 93 runs, and 47 were lovers for 54 runs in Australia's se- glances, late cuts and snicks behind cond innings, and they included 17 the wicket for 90 runs.
16 OF THEM!
maidens.]
Fourteen fours for hooks, glan-
fast bowling of Voce and Allen, helped to swell his scoring from the south end of the wicket.
Sievers
GREGORY AGAIN? Gregory acquitted himself very creditably in his debut in the last match and is likely to be included again. On the other hand, Rigg E Bathurst (18), two up on the last in his two innings only totalled 27, nine holes, won the Bogey (Par) Pool over the New Course. J. B. Richardson scoring 20 in the first innings and (9) and P. L. Leefe (23) were also all seven in the second. Unless he has square, but Bathurst's was a better been showing excellent form in card. There were 11 entries.
(Continued from Next Columa) enough to risk against the powerful England batting, I am therefore of the opinion that Sievers will find a place as an all-rounder.
The result is an extraordinarily well-balanced combination with first-class batting down to number,
Smith, Sievers, O'Reilly, McCabe, ing of McCormick, Fleetwood
and Gregory..
is
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State matches, therefore, the chan- ces are that he will be dropped. In the absence of Chipperfield, who on the injured list, Badcock seems to be fairly certain of place which leaves one more posi- tion to be filled by Sievers or Nash. ALL-ROUNDER WANTED The only bowlers in these ten Me-
which does not seem to be powerful Cabe, McCormick and O'Reilly with Gregory as a possible change,
Continued at foot of preceding Col
came either behind the wicket of
Sixteen of his 22 boundary hits ces, late cuts and snicks, off the eight, and a varied attack consist players are Fleetwood-Smit7, #
from shots played with his weight on the back foot. Bradman's cover-drive-once one This table of Bradman's strokes G of his most brilliant and favoured shows how hooking and glancing strokes was not often seen. So
to leg, and cutting on the off side, restrained was his forward play to were his most favoured strokes:
ON SIDE
OFF SIDE
"VERDICTS”
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SCOTS ON TOP
It is not often that a New Regi- ment comes to the Colony and set- condi- tles down to local soccer tions within a month or two, bu the Seaforths can be said to have accomplished this. Last Saturday they obtained a clean sweep, beat- ing Eastern by the odd goal in three
Runs
Runs 52 24 late cuts ..... 143
25 hooks
18 glances
33 22 square cuts
28
115 drives
279 cover hits
18
24 pushes 1 pull*
24 10 off drives
17
3
10 pushes.
10
5. snicks
15
139 80 strokes.
131
83 strokes.
*Pull, forward stroke to leg, as dis- tinet from hook off back foot.
ESCOBAR
in the First
irst Division, beating RETAINS
the same team by five clear goals in the Second Division, and HIS TITLE
trouncing the Service Corps by 4 goals to 1 in the Third Division. Not at all bad.
Porto Rico, To-day. Sixto Escobar, world' 'hantam- weight boxing champion, yesterday retained his title when he beat Lou Salica, from whom he originally won the title, by points in a 15 bout here yesterday-Ren-
Lan Salica,
BULTMANN SHINES The Hong Kong Football Club, with all hopes of a League Cham pionship blasted, are evidently round making use of the opportunities at ter their disposal to try several of the
nominated by the, juniors in the senior team. They New York Athletic Commission, as accomplished this last Saturday the recognised holder of the world when both Bultmann, the junior bantaweight championship in 1935, right-back, and Nicholl, who has first met Sixto Escobar on August played for seniors before, were 26, 1935, when he won the world Kowloon Chinese title on a points' decision at the quite a success on Dyckman Oval, New York. the right wing and the Club may They again met on November 15. give this
another chance in 1935 when Escobarwon the title the same position. Nicholl, follow for the first time, outpojuting Salica ing his displays, this season, looks in a 15 round-bout, at the Madison like being a permanent fixture with Square Garden before 8,000 specta the seniors next season.
fielded Bultman
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