Second Test Match Prospects
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C.B. FRY Says-
Whoever offers a straight line tour consistently up to form, and he has to his account fine successes in on the result of the second Test previous Test matches. He is accept- match at Lord's is a wiseacre.ed as ranking with the finest bowlers The unknown factor is 'too large | Australia has sent over. His accuracy and, in character, too decisive. It and his skill in disguising change of is the quality of the England delivery render him a highly respect- added to a naturally deceptive pace,
bowling.
The Australian bowlers we know as a set. We know them too in the per- sons of W. J. O'Reilly and L. O'B. Fleetwood-Smith as highly advertised specialities. They have been properly boomed these two. Not that they are not very fine bowlers. Undoubtedly they are.
able adversary.
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His keen
But on ordinary wickets he does not present difficulties such as high-class batsmen cannot cope with. and level persistence and complete re- liability are great assets to his side; but the idea that, he is going to run through a strong batting side on a good But the booming of bowlers upsets wicket is unwarranted. With a dam- the perspective of valuers; the re-aged wicket, on the other hand, he is peatedly accented name of a bowler the one bowler likely to equalise the accumulates size, and it seems to beat general superiority in such conditions gravity by sliding up an inclined plane of English over Australian batting. of talk.
But for O'Reilly I would not give the Australians a big vote in a match played on wet turf all through.
THE LEFT-HANDER
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ENGLAND'S CHOSEN "13"
the
England's representatives for Second Test match againėt the Austra- lians which commences to-day at Lord's, will be selected from the following:
W. R. Hammond (Gloucester)
(Captain).
K. Farnes (Essex), Sinfield, R. A. (Gloucester). Barnett, C..3. (Gloucester). Verity, H. (Yorkshire). Hutton, L. (Yorkshire).. Ames, L. E. G. (Kent). Wright, D. V. P. (Kent). Compton, D. (Middlesex). Edrich, W. J. (Middlesex). Paynter, E. (Lancashire). Hardstaff, J. (Notts). Wellard, A. W. (Somerset).
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Besides this pair, who are their de- clared match-winners, the Australians have a set of bowlers who cannot claim any reputational superiority
over our own.
McCormick is a good fast bowler with the new ball, but our English wickets, even when dry, do not suit him as well as the Australian wickets; he cannot get the same lift out of
ours.
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Ward is a good standard leg-brank bowler, with plenty of spin and with- out the inaccuracy of length usual in his kind.
Waite, a right-hand medium-pace bowler, can swing the new ball and can vary his pace..
used to be, or was supposed to be.
White, the slow-medium, left- Consequently his peculiar left-hand hander, is probably a better bowler bowling, which is simply the reverse than most of the critics here have of right hand leg-break and googly discovered. bowling, is to be reckoned with always
on
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not appeared as dangerous
wet It would seem, whatever set of them wickets, but on any dry wicket he is is finally chosen, that the Australian Fleetwood-Smith seems to have be- a fine bowler, and on a dusty wicket bowlers are aiders and, abettors of O'Reilly has bowled all through this come much more consistent than hel he is formidable.
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Nobody in England is at all likely to underrate the two eminent Austra- lian bowlers.
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