Twelve Drawn Games.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7278, 4 October 1933, Page 11

Twelve Drawn Games.

It is little wonder that the East Lancashire Club, in the Lancashire Cricket League, was determined to obtain a bowler to succeed I. B. Cromb as its professional. The “Blackburn ’limes, which is published in the town in which the club has its headquarters, said, at the end of July, that East Lancashire would not have figured in 12 drawn games this season if its attack had been stronger, and that in four of its five victories it had been the batting, not the bowling, which had pulled it through. Without doubt, added the “Blackburn Times,” the club had the strongest batting side in tile league, bor proof of its weakness in attack one had only to note that in the 18 matches it had played this year, up to that date, its opponents had eight times declared their innings closed, had 12 times made more than 100 runs, and four times had made more than 200 runs. In only five games had East Lancashire got its opponents out, and it had won three of these matches. However, the paper considered that the chib’s attack was stronger • than its record indicated; bowlers were kept on too long.