Those who contend that Test Matches in this country should
be played to a finish, or that at any rate they should have six days allotted to them, will be confirmed in their views by the result of the Nottingham match, which after a lively beginning petered out in a singularly dismal draw. The present season is unlikely to see the end of this particular controversy, but I must confess that I find it increasingly hard to see the justification of confining matches to a period in which it is much more than an even chance that no result will be achieved. The chief objection to six-day matches is that they will encourage unadventurous cricket, but it is questionable whether they would do so more than four-day matches, in which a side in danger of defeat has a propor- tionately greater chance of avoiding it by exhausting time in purely negative play. That no doubt explained, but it could not for a moment excuse, the barracking by which a section of the crowd at Nottingham disgraced itself. M manners on the cricket-field have hitherto been the exception in this
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