SIR,—I agree with many of James Overthrow's remarks about the
Test Match commentators, but surely he was unjust to E. W. Swanton in ascribing: " No, no, Jim ; there was never a run there " to Brian Johnston ? The incident, as I remember seeing and hearing it, occurred in the final moments of the match when Shackleton had just come in after Brown's great innings. Some ten runs were required to win with four wickets in hand, and when Shackleton played a defensive back shot to the off, and made a pace or two up the wicket as if to steal a run, E. W. Swanton (as I believe) exclaimed in anguish " No, no, my boy— there's never a run there !" This, it seems to me, was -a charming, involuntary remark, and had a true smack in it of the pavilion at Lord's.—Yours faithfully, J. D. BUCHANAN. Lenthay Fields, Sherborne, Dorset.
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