24 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 18

AMES AS BATSMAN

[To the Editor of Trim Srm-re.roa.] Sm,—There is one point in your note on the Test Matches which challenges comment. You mention rightly the part played by Larwood's bowling and Ames's wicket-keeping, but surely the eulogy of the Kent wicket-keeper's batting goes a little beyond its merits. It is true that Ames made a valuable sixty-nine in the second innings of the Third Test Match, but apart from that I think I am right in saying that he has never reached twenty in any single innings in a Test