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TEST PROSPECTS I
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Runs were not so im-;
portant as how they were I
made. |
Briggs has a second
chance on Friday.
Jim dc Courcy needs runs
badly.
What of that great lefthand
bowler Bill Johnston?
think he's struggling.
Let's be honest about a
good fellow and a great
player.
His fast mediums with
fhp new hall no longer
convince
I
Rut he's still a cood leftbp
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Brisbane can serve up a
"sticky
dog' 1
of
a
pitch;
and
a
left - hander
with;
Bill's experience could rout |
anv side.
So, for my part,
Johnston
goes
into
the
First
Test.
Keith
Miller
told
me
that Rav Lindwall is two ,
yards faster than last sea- '
son and right back at his !
top. That's
heartening.
more
than
Miller himself says that
he can't pull out the
fiery
burst with the new ban
that has broken many a
Test innings.
Let's
ding. »•*•
hope
Keith's
kid-
Young Ron Archer bowled
verv well in Melbourne'
but there
is still
an
ab-1
sence of lip-through in his
methods,
He has the bat beater
but still lacks the domin
ance for which we have relied
on from Lindwall and
Miller.
Perhaps we are expecting
too much too soon.
But even in his best spell
in Melbourne I felt that
Ron lacked the devil of
an innings wrecker.
Ian Johnson heads the
slew bowlers and with
Lindwall. is the best trund- ;
ler in
Australia today.
B f. naud
l l as -
h "»
?
his bowling. and is the
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all-rounder
in
either
fe
"DUSU-' Miller
e3We P "
oil
Langley
takes
the
gioves without reflection on'
the
magnificent
work
of
LeWiaddockr n the MCG
iame
Maddocks'
catch
from
Comptcn in the
first
inn- ;
ingc was a gem instead of
a near-miss as manv spectators
thought.
Compton,"facing Benaud,
went
for a
back-cut
and
,hit the ball off the bottom
edge of his bat.
;
Maddocks
dived,
got
his
giove
t0
the ball, hit
it up twice before taking
the catch.
Yes. we 11 know the team
b - v next
Wednesday, and I;
] don't
think
the
one
I vej
chosen will be very wide of
the mark.
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