THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1988.
We Have Partnership More
Like England
Leyland, What A Batsman!
Young Hutton
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C. B. FRY Says--
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C. B. Fry, the well known author-
I hate the absence of Leslie Ames. ity on international cricket, continues He is one of our two or three likeliest his series of comments on the Eng-men for a century. He is real class; land-Australia Test matches in the he has long experience. "China Mail," the first day's play in the Fifth Test match appearing to day.
Oval, August 20.
And I wish I were to see Charles Barnett walk out as No. 1. That man should be hore.
With the weather doubtful the choice of innings is a bull-point. Shall we use our opportunity? Now, Hutton and Edrich, take your chance for Mer-
The reason why Kennington Oval is oval is that they laid out a pitch, set up the stumps and drew the boundary ry England. by using each wicket as the focus of an ellipse.
Few people know this. You can try it out by sticking two pins in a large piece of cardboard, tying a thread to each, and drawing a pencil round at the end of the loop.
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Test Ticket Profiteers
Notice distributed by handbills at the Test match at Kennington Oval to-day read:
"To protect the public, the com- mittee of Surrey County Cricket Club have made every effort to pre- vent seat tickets getting into the hands of 'profiteers.' Unfortunately they have not been entirely suc- cessful.
"They would be much obliged if anyone who has paid a premium for a ticket would send a postcard to the Secretary, Surrey County Cricket Club, Kennington Oval, S.E.11., giving the stand, row and number of the seat (or give this information verbally at the office).
"This will enable the committee to trace the original purchaser and prevent supplies reaching him in the future.
inch; he does not hurry his runs; but he is solid and firm; he gives her the middle of the lobe of his bat.
Then, again, Fleetwood, as I expect- ed, could not work this sort of wicket, and has retired in favour of Waite..
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Frankly, we have a chance of a big- total if only we collar the situation. We have only to keep O'Reilly out of mischief, and our runs should accrue in quantities. We are not up against any bowling a Freshman at Oxford. need fear-bar O'Reilly.
you
And O'Reilly is playable enough if There do not play at his arm. is nothing in the turf to help him.
Hutton is a good lad. He is timing his strokes one and all. He has folded an off drive worthy of Lionel Palairet. He has already justifield his inclusion.
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And now the O'Reilly is resting. Fleetwood takes on from the far end. I hope he will not jostle Maurice into a leg-before. Maurice is a trifle by way of walking round the line of the ball.
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Good for young Hutton. Another old-time off-drive. Graceful as a waving birch tree, and a sound like Out come Australia, Don Bradman
a wooden gong. running ahead for the ball, the bald
But these two bowlers Don't think I say that Fleetwood is py cricket. head of O'Reilly topping the bunch would not have been able to trundle not bowling up to his name. He is that follows.
thus with no man in the deep field to bowling quite properly; but the wicket Archie Maclaren or is not the kind to help him to his Stanley Jackson. band. And Arthur Mailey tells me he Tom Hayward. No, sir.
effects. Ho needs faster turf; he The pavilion is at one end of the has neuritis in his shoulder. Well, Jack Hobbs tells me he saw the needs something for his spin to catch
And thence we survey the large that balances our bad luck with Ames wicket yesterday, and wished he were hold of. egg. area of turf bounded by a circumfer- Arthur Mailey also says that this is to bat on it. One to carry about in ence of white board like a polo ground. the strongest eleven Australia
one's bag. He also thinks that Charles Behind the board-line there is an all-sent into the field.
Hullo! McCormick is not in the
have
round tier of democratic concrete seats Where is Charles Barnett, with Mc-Barnett would have had a beano.
where people can stand. Outside the pavilion and its annexes there are small stands.
Cormick away? I sigh.
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He may get a wicket or two, but he is easy enough to play.
Ringing Clouts
* * * But no complaints have we of our So it is that Waite, that much-im-junior members. Hutton is shaping So, friends, the Oval is no stadium. proved right-hand bowler, begins from with Herbertian confidence and calm, and Leyland 16. Unless, of course, you count the mo- the Vauxhall end, and Stanley McCabe Edrich is neat and ready for strokes; dern flats all round, and the mountain- takes off the shine this end.
and has already handed his cap to um- ous grey gasometer on the middle No fault to find in the first few
pire Chester. overs. Hutton and Edrich seem com clever modern cult; but I would like to Two excellent players these, of the fortable. The wicket seems true and sound, but not over fast. But we can-off these practice bowlers.
see a firm, straight drive now and then, not gauge the wicket till the early bloom is off.
right.
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I observe the television view-finding Eiffel Tower at the Vauxhall end. I observe the brown-green strip in the centre where Hutton and Edrich will
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face their task of giving us a Test Youngest Opening Pair displaces Waite, and Fleetwood
start.
For our bully-boy of a captain has won the toss again. He had, of course, an even chance of doing; every time you toss, so it is; other tosses do not affect the present probability.
Leyland, Bowler
The total is 56; Hutton has 34 And the next over left-handed board. our Maurice plants two off drives to the far white Clean, ringing clouts at the expense of Fleetwood.
Our Maurice is a good boy to-day,
He has only. and is in good form. had one try to run himself out.
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If the two Yorkshire- crucial phase. men can keep the crease for the next 20 minutes, we may reckon ourselves well placed..
That phase is ended; the O'Reilly' displaces McCabe. So now we are at McCabe and Waite look to me like grips. two ordinary county bowlers; good
The O'Reilly starts with a no-ball practice for class batsmen. And I hope and Hutton clouts it. I do hope our our batsmen are such; as well as the youngsters will treat him as a straight youngest pair that ever opened an inn-bowler, but keep their eye on his de- ings for England.
ceptions of pace and flight. Don't play at that whirling arm and rolling hand, my lads; play at the ball itself.
And now the first quarter of an hour is over. We have scored five runs. We have seen nothing to frighten us.
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Well, we have left out Goddard and Fagg. Wright and Ames had left The test will come when the great Yes, Fleetwood is now engaged from themselves out by accident. Wood is O'Reilly takes the ball from McCabe. the pavilion end. He is a curio, and in for Ames. No one is included in { No. I see nothing terrible as yet. one never knows; but I do not fancy place of Wright; because Leyland and Both batsmen are playing sound, hap-him as a dangerous on the Oval wicket.
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The O'Reilly is the bowler we have to mind.
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This is a
I assure you, bar O'Reilly (who has to use an unhelpful wicket), there is nothing in the way of our
batsmen.
Wright No Break
Ames and Wright, the two injured players, were among the carly arrivals at the Oval.
Wright, who had his finger heavily bandaged, said the X-ray examination revealed that the bone is not broken.
There he is, loping up with his springy, long strides, wrapping up his intentions in a rolling right hand, swinging his long, loose right arm, like the spoke of a wobbling wheel.
Fleetwood is damped out by the easy Accurate always, hostile ever; inten- pace of a true wicket. Waite is just tional with every ball he emits from decent practice bowler. Whoni his capacious grip. One cannot help else have they? admiring his mastery of his craft, even when one is wishing him a trouncing. It stands out a fathom now that the Ho is one of the old sort. Deceptive loss of McCormick's fast bowling Is flight is the mark of the first-rate bowler.
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Misjudged The Pace
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a heavy deficit. Though on this wicket he ought not to have been dan- gerous, still his absence makes & big hole in the Australian side.
I have always said that the bowling of this Australian team is thin. say go again. Never should they beat our picked eleven. Never.
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Yes; and he has done the trick. Young Edrich has shifted his feet too soon, has misjudged the pace of the ball, has missed the back stroke, and he is out 1.b.w. Better a Barnett bang Ten minutes to go, and we have over O'Reilly's head than that.
England have lost one possible cen- Fleetwood again from our end. turion, and the total is a silly 29 runs. do not mind him; I mind this working He played well enough did Edrich; but his spiteful elaborations of flight and Irishman, O'Reilly, who is doubling he has not yet awhile enough power well-rolled spin. for this class of cricket.
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So now we welcome the sturdy frame and firm tramp of Maurice Loyland. Yorkshire-to the rescue.
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Young Hutton is playing well. I like him to-day. He looks tó ́me`a match for the O'Reilly, A cool hand. this Hutton, and a quick blade.
The first hour la over. I have seen excellent craftsmanship by that fine bowler O'Reilly, I have seen sterling and proper batsmanship by young Hutton.
That is all I have Been to make this a Test' match..
What was wanted in this game was a powerful batsman to attack O'Reilly In his first spell of bowling.
No Hurrying
So much for that. is that, Maurice
niding style.
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He is a perpetual -threat. see nothing terrible in him. It is just a question of not playing at his arm instead of at the ball.
I repeat the point; it is the whole gist of the situation of our batting versus their bowling.
McCormick Mystery
A little bird has told me that Me- Cormick might have been, dropped from the Australian side anyway; he has lost his pace.
Either way, the Australian selec tors ought, to be sorry for themselves at half-past six to-night.
1 say ought; not necessarily will.
Fleetwood is bowling the last over-to our Maurice. Our Maurice is sitting tight. He has sat on five balls, and smicked the sixth. An intentional shick to leg, called a glide when the batsman is on your own side. Walan
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