A. E. R. Gilligan, the old English captain, recently wrote a letter to "The Times" in which he stated that he had received a letter from Don Bradman, the Australian captain, stating that England's crying need was spin bowling.
Commenting on this remark, Gilligan wrote "We have some good spin bowlers in this country, and it would be a good idea to put them in the next Test team."
Replying to this, Sir Pelham Warner, another famous old English captain, has written to "The Times":
"Actually our spin bowlers—and 1 take it by spin bowlers are meant the leg-break google bowlers—have been in our Test teams and have fared most unhappily. J. W. Hearne was a lamentable failure; Freeman, of Kent, went through one tour in Australia without being chosen {or a single Test match, and one other played in only two, so unsuccessful was he on general form, and in more recent times R. W. V. Robins.
Mitchell of Derbyshire, and Sims have returned bowling analyses which sound like the batting aver-of a Bradman or a Hammond.
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