The new Lbw, rule has been a [success in the refined circles of first class cricket to which it has been introduced in England. Enthusiasm has led a distinguished veteran to suggest that it be applied to. village cricket, where the atmosphere never raritied but is wholesnmely vulgar. Mr. A. M. Crawley, the Kent cricketer who will be remembered fon the Shanghai stage while acting as Lord Rothermere's special correspondent in China last year, has soud-dered at the suggestion. Mr. Crawley points out that the vill has ioni most expansive form: in other words: when the ball hits the batsman's body wherever the body may be, the verdict is "out" and out the batsman has to go. Further support for this healthy view comes from Mr, Charles umpires imitable men who do Ponsonby. He finds that' village
hot always. possess. suitable physical qualities or knowledge to enable them to enter into' the subtler niceties dear to the heart of the Test teh player. Mr. Ponsonby cites as fan example his own experience in batting when a bowler bowled a no-wards. pla cated with the disclosure that "at the critical moment, the umpire's dental plate had fallen out of his mouth, with the result, presumably, that an entirely" unauthorized wicket had been credited to the delinquent bowler.
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