. "", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections. wlers as Jack Hearne, Hirst,Richardson, and Briggs as mainstays, and Stoddart,Wainwright and Hayward, as changes, the bowlingdepartment was scarcely less powerful. Nevertheless, the tour was a disappointment tothe cricketers themselves and their friends athome, and the team, which left home buoyant,and almost sanguine of success, came back havinglost more matches than they won. Four timesthey were severely beaten — twice in a singleinnings — in the five test matches. To someextent this poor record was due to misfortune,Ranjitsinhji
. "", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections. wlers as Jack Hearne, Hirst,Richardson, and Briggs as mainstays, and Stoddart,Wainwright and Hayward, as changes, the bowlingdepartment was scarcely less powerful. Nevertheless, the tour was a disappointment tothe cricketers themselves and their friends athome, and the team, which left home buoyant,and almost sanguine of success, came back havinglost more matches than they won. Four timesthey were severely beaten — twice in a singleinnings — in the five test matches. To someextent this poor record was due to misfortune,Ranjitsinhji suffering from bad health, whileStoddart was prostrated with influenza, and un-nerved by the death of his mother during hisabsence from England. Ranjitsinhji, in hiscapital little book, ^ With Stoddarts Team inAustralia, frankly confessed that the comparativefailure of the English team was to be attributedto meeting opponents who were better than them-selves, and better than people in England hadany idea of. Their strength on their own wickets, he says,.
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