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But is the reader is probably aware, I have been in first clasa cricket quite a fair length of time. and now, looking back from what must of necessity be near the end of my innings, one of the out- standing changes which hascome over county cricket while I bave been in it has been the passing of the fast bowler.
To-day it would be possible to number the fast bowlers in county
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successors to such men as Tom Richardson. Kortright, Arthur Mold, and many others one could mention without going too far into history! I know that it is per fectly natural to think of and extol the good old days, but even allow- ing for that, for some reason or other we have failed to find men of the stamp to fill the places of those I have mentioned above.
Have we a man to-day-even a single one who could possibly claim to be reckoned in the same category as those inentioned above? I can think of only one man playing in county cricket this summer, and he is that fine fast bowler of Surrey.J.W. Hitch. And I do not think that Hitch himself would lay claim-or that be would thank anyone for making a claim on his behilf- that he is quite so good as say, Richardson or Lockwood at their best.
THE PERFECT WICKET BOWLER. The names of the men I have already mentioned will, I think, have made it clear that when I refer to fast bowling- I mean fast bowling! The passing of the red express man has inclined us to call our fast medium men. fast bowlers.
For instance. I have heard Sydney Barnes referred to as a fast bowler mare than once, but he is not, and nover was, a fast bowler in the sense that Mold or S. M. J. Woods in the old days were fast bowlers.
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Perhaps the spectator does not realise the difference in the two types so much as the batsman does, but so far as the county side is concerned, there is difference, and while the medium man is a very valuable asset, I am certainly of opinion that cricket has last some of its life, with the passing of the fast charm, and certainly some of its bowler from so many county sides.
After all, the real express man was one bowler on the side to whom the spectator could look to get the batsman out for a reason- able score on a perfect wicket. That being so, it follows that there has been no deliberate "freezing out" of the fast bowler from county cricket. He has just made his exit gradually. There remains then to discuss quite briefly why he has gone.
Perhaps one reason lies in the
springing up in recent years, of what I
may call for lack of a
better term, "freak" bowlers. The googlie 'man, for instance, came much to the fore during the few years which preceded the war, and it seems natural that the greater the variety of bowlers, the fawer you get of a particular type.
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fast bowling. And what applies mean by the physical strain of to Hitch applies in a lesser or greater degree to nearly all fast bowlers..
A very notable exccption in my time was Mold, who took only five or six strides up
to the wicket, and yet who, because of some amazing strength either in the back or arm (or both) was able to send them down at a wonder- ful speed.
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To a certain extent, another Lancastrian, in Brearley, was a good copy of Mold, but even he could not have kept bowling: nt his best pace for hours at stretch, as I have often seen him do, had he not been blessed with strength far above the ordinary.
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But, as I say, few fast bowlers could put up anything like the pace of Mold or Brearley without the long, exhausting run, and I should imagine that fast bowlers as a class are inclined to look with envy at the efforts of the the slow break bowler, who just strolls up to the wicket, turns his arm over, and-gets the batsmen out.
In a measure, too, I think cricket coaches generally may for the decline of the fast be held, partly responsible bowler. They are rather apt to make a fetish of "length." they get a young bowler under their care. Never mind about the pace," they say, length and then it will be soon "get-your enough to work up speed."
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But having got the length" it is more than likely that by that time the young bowler who originally was keen on bowling very fast realises that it takes a lot out of him, and he is content to "carry on" with just mediam
or fast medium deliveries.
SIX BALLS SUFFICIENT. I expressed above my firm con- viction that the really fast bowler is a very valuable member of a county team, and that on his presence in the team rests the one hope of getting matches finished during the dry spells and good wickets of the average summer. fewer drawn games the better it And everybody is agreed that the
will be for cricket all round.
And when you come to think of it, it is not very surprising that really fast bowling does not com- That being so I was very mend itself to many cricket pleased to notice that the agits players as a "line" to be followed tion to increase the number of by them. The fast bowler is the balls to the over from six to "donkey" worker of the team, seven, or even eight, was turned His turn comes when the weather down by the cricket authorities, and the wicket-is-at its very So far as the slow bowler is best. This means that he has to concerned, an eight balls over do his best to get the batsmen out would be very little different from during the most trying of our the six balls-over.. summer days.
"Only the man possessed of a even the medium man, who puts But to the express man or superabundance of physical a lot energy into his attack- strength and energy can hope to think six balls to the over is make a successful fast bowler. Iample. mentioned §. M. J. Woods above, It will, perhaps, surprise the balls to the over to sight, then in If you increased the number of younger school of county cricket my opinion, there would not be followers to know that Woods that necessary touch of ginger in Was ever one of the foremost of the last two
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