13 JUNE 1952, Page 5

If any Cambridge man, noting that of the only four

amateurs in the first flight of the batting averages three are members of this year's Cambridge XI (the fourth being an old Light Blue), imagines that next month's university match is already in the bag, he had better keep his thoughts to himself. It only needs Boobyer and Cowdrey to be in form and Sheppard and May out of it (as has happened before) for Oxford to repeat last year's success. Nowhere does a paper record count for so little as at Lords when Oxford and Cambridge are there.

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