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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST

1988.

Good ENGLAND BOWLING,

Compton, the young England bat, bowled by O'Reilly at 14. (Fox Copyright by Air Mail.)

C. B. FRY Says---

Leeds, Saturday. This morning at Headingley there is a slight mist, but no my- stery. We know jolly-well where

we are.

a sunnier afternoon; and to tire our bowlers.

over.

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BRADMAN'S GREAT

SKILL

I can find no fault with our bowlers, his century. As it is, he has topped

Length good; variations frequent; the half.

hostility sustained.

WELL BOWLED, BOWES

have to thank Beyond all doubt we should The Australians have

ex-been in the soup by now but, for Bill -Ben. Barnett for an invaluable hibit of resolute defence; he carried Bowes. We have no bowler who for the morning for them and put them such long spells can keep the runs His long down as he does on a dead wicket. right for the afternoon. innings of 57 ranks as one of the best He has no great luck. ever played by a man sent in over- night to save risking a supposedly more valuable wicket.

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An exciting finish to the last over. Farnes hit McCabe's pads twice; and loudly appealed.

No response; so the Don and his first lieutenant face us for the second period of play.

We

Just now the Don cocked up a catch barely out of reach of Wright's right hand at short-leg. Wright jumped to sideways, and only just failed pouch the ball,

To rest the toiling giant we have a spell of Edrich, who might well have been tried earlier. I am sure he is under-rated as a bowler.

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To understand this match please With three men out for. 128

note that Hassett is as a rule a live- need another quick wicket to be only scorer; to-day he was in for

Then he minutes for three runs. snicked a four and a single, making eight runs in three-quarters of hour.

end;

an

Our Edrich is bundling into the fray; he flings down swift bouncing stuff with a field set for on-side

strokes.

The I hazard a guess that the Don. has packed said a word or two to Chester about how bad the light will be presently. Not yet an appeal; just an introduc- tion to the subject.

must

The Australian pair of plodders, useful plodders, remind me of two little figures in the Swiss wea-level terms.

MORE APPEALS

more The afternoon opened with ther-chalet, who lean in or out for wet or fine, each on a cat-gut string.

against McCabe. appeals for 1.b.w. The first hour is over; a laborious, Bowes opened his big eyes wider and meritorious hour. Runs to the num-wider at the refusals. But the um No actual pires are excellent judges of cricket, heavy Tiger Smith and Chester, and they Yesterday the Australians fig-ber of 86 have accrued.

stroke to record, except one

are probably right. ured in the field as a much better hook by Barnett off Wright.

Farnes is on from the far Cheers now for the advent of York- eleven than in the three previous

end. And Bowes is working up the hill. Their bowling shire Verity at the far Test matches.

an impeccable light is dull; the ground is

like a Christmas hamper. was better, their fielding better, Verity smiles down

the To follow this match, you

outfield The Australian batsmen find

Runs and their technical management

same difficuity as did ours in getting ever bear in mind that the

the is slow and the wicket dead. was better.

an are hard to score, even when defence the ball past the fieldsmen on slow turf. Fingleton has spent

But did is easy, hour in collecting 17 runs.

Charles Barnett not our puncher

But McCabe's defence. is not proof spend two hours and a half in collect-

against the pace of Farnes. He is ing: 307

skittled all over his wicket in trying

Edrich after a few overs gives way so slowly

THESE LEFT-HANDERS Bill Bowes walks ever

In the second hour the light perks to play back. McCabe never looked away, turns ever so slowly and bowlB

game like staying; I think his eyes dislike to Wright; and Wright nobbles Has- sett. The little man tried the stabbed He has up, the air feels fresher, the the first ball to Ben Barnett,

still the dull, grey light. three slips, a gully and two short legs. grows less subdued. But runs

The Don has been playing quite off-drive at the leg-break and edged For Fingleton he moves a slip to for-accrue rather than are made--except

short for thirteen runs. ward short leg. Nothing has hap- for an occasional hook or drive by strongly. Noticeable it is what force a catch to short slip. A long innings

Barnett. And I give you that Ben he imparts to his shrewd, pened.

Kenneth Farnes resumes at our end; The light is not the no-screen end. good; autumnal. Nothing has hap- pened.

It was a fine effort to pin Eng- land down to a score of 223 on an easy wicket.

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The test will be when the. batsmen try for strokes. Bowes is on the job with his swingers, and may get an Ibw. Farnes is fast and lively. It is going to be a-fight.

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CHIEF FEATURES OF LEEDS TEST

Barnett is doing fine work for aide. 1.

SECOND DAY

hia strokes.

The. light already is not at all up to the standard; it is smoky weak.

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* * Verity continued to bowl with `im- peccable accuracy; but he cannot com- pass much spin.

The total is 195 and with. Waite, now in we cannot say the hutch is quite, ajar.

Verity is teasing Waite with a silly point, two slips and a silly mid-on. Waite is trying to be imperturbable, but is having narrow squeaks. Waite likes a plumb fast wicket for batting. TWO HUNDRED UP Don, who tried to hit it so hard to Verity has tried a full pitch on the

loser. through the slips; his first uninten tional stroke to-day-Up goes the two hundred.

A different sort of applica- what we tion of bat to ball from have seen hitherto; a vicious force. leg that he guided a swift

a

We are now better off; four out for, 186 is as good as we could ex-

When Farnes is bowling Bill Bowes is frowning at the back of the bats- man's head from second slip like Prussian philosopher doing a great big hate after breakfast.

The batsmen, as yet, are sitting down to hard working security; no like to adventure. Barnett would make a left-handed stroke, but cannot find the right ball.

These Australian left-handers have spiked our guns many a time; Joe Darling and Clem Hill; for instance; and now this blue-eyed boy of a wicket-pect. keeper is causing much trouble.

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No escaping the fact that this pair of overnight, birds are hatching brood of trouble, for us,

At what seems a long, long last, Verity does the trick.

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Another accident. Bill Bowes up-" roots Jack Badcock, who did not move across to the line of a fast ball on his off stump. The ball kept low; a trimmer.

all the time; not a loose ball; a fine Bowes has bowled extremely well swing, lots of pep from the dead turf.

Wright is bowling from our end;

his methods. very well for a wicket so unsuited to

Lately the Don has been speculat- ing. He has nearly played on to ed by a creeper from Verity. But he Wright and he has nearly been bowl- survives and is undiminished.

STILL SLOW AND TRUE About the wicket and the state there of. It appears the same as yester

Waite dislikes the dim light. - I- an- day, slow but true; easy for defen- Verity exhausts the brown-eyed, days play, not apt for scoring strokes, beetle-browed patience of the length Meanwhile The Don is perpetually ticipate an appeal Bowes is teasing The bat makes a dull, hollow Bound The Fingo tried to force a length against the ball; there is no zip from ball round the corner, and clean miss busy; his acore mounts much quicker him with a packed infleld.

than one notices, I have never seen ked it. K

The appeal has arrived an the impact. T

We have watched half an hour of The Fingo had done a good deed a batsman stand out more evidently keen, accurate bowling; 16 runs have for his side; his long 80 runs count from his colleagues for making things pires are conferring. The

What did I tell you? accrued from careful pushes and as worth at least 60 on an ordinary look easy that they make look dif- have decided the light is unfit.

day. He was not amusing or amused, cult. ⠀ placings.

but he did our bowlers lots of harm by, his solid obstinacy, Total, 87 for 2.

Now Wright comes on for Bowes, who has been pinning the batsmen down but not beating them from the screen end, and Bowes is transferred to the no-screen end to try what he can do uphill.

First bail Fingleton is all but bag ged at the wicket; the ball just did not carry to Price's hands as he dip ped forward.

Ben Barnett is playing distinctly well; he figures as much more than a. stopgap.

He retains his stroke till later and at seas more of the ball. He aims the ball itself and not at a point in space in front of it.

THIS PHENOMENON And now Don Bradman takes the This afternoon the light is decided- stage in the theatre of his triumph.ly against a clean quick sight of the He appears to-day as one who has ball; Farnes is bowling finely; Bowes had the way prepared for him. He is swinging well. Both bowlers are has half an hour before lunch to take as accurate as one could ask for; and sights for the afternoon.

out there this phenomenon of a bats man is managing to do pretty well as he likes.

He is not forcing the game; he is just proceeding.

He has to meet Verity and Wright He treats both of them with adroit respect; he strikes me as finding the wicket a bit too slow for larks. And the wicket is too slow to give much Wright is on the spot with his live-chance to Wright; his leg break is ly legbreaks; he looks all the time sleepy off the pitch.

So, as I expected, Bowes relieves like getting a wicket. Bowes is swing- ing/good-length teasers from his new him from our end; and, indeed, it is end. Something ought to happen well worth while to let the giant have

a awing at the Don early in his in- Hassett has been playing himself in with studious care; his back play BARNETT, GOES

is noat and correct; he has not as sundry inspections of the ball yet dono anything unintentional dur cent or two, the Don cxing 20 minutes and has scored three

soon.

nings

The um- umpires

The delay lasted. 20 minutes; then Waite had to come out to play again. He brought the Don with him. ⠀

Farnes is at the far end with the new ball, but the Don set about the new ball with gusto. A drive, a hook and a glide; nine runs.

Bowes, of course, claims the new ball at our end with It he has a chance of evicting Waite, but, of course, the Don in keeping, Waite away from the swinger.

He also allows him infrequent en- joyment of Farnes.**

The notable features of the day are Verity is called upon to relieve Farnes. The total is 102. The Don two: the excellent all-round bowling has scored 48. -You see now how by all our men; the phenomenal skill troublesome was that innings of Bar with which Don Bradman has bucceed- ed in electrifying "his" <strokes into nett's.

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No other batsm

done this One or two

friven, hard and hooked

(ves runs.

After 21 minutes, however,

atch off

Has

Such

Don

the holding turfs his ordinary unforce arrows from a bow and all ground.

A COMPLETI - Bradman i #hurtled-about had (pinched

two. (Continued on