The Test Match
The great Australian victory in the second Ted. Match has increased the excitement with which the remaining matches are awaited. The idea that a perfect wicket, made dull cricket used to be the motive of silly talk about the need for brightness. But nothing could have bei 1(.1. fortified the spirit of the game, in spite of the huge scores and the disadvantages under which the bowlers laboured, than the second Test Match of this year. England, begin- ning badly, nevertheless hit up a large score thanks to Duleepsinhji, the worthy nephew of a worthy uncle. It would have been salutary if all India could have been present to witness the spontaneous joy of the crowd in the great performance of her representative. Quite undaunted, the Australians responded with much the largest figure ever made in a Test Match. It included the wonderful innings of Bradman, who made 254. Woodfull declared the innings closed when six wickets had fallen at what seemed to be precisely the right moment. Then came, in the second English innings, some merry hitting by Chapman, who showed that his sense of responsibility had no power to intimidate him. Although the Australians in their second inning; had only to make 72 runs to win, they lost three wickets before they did it. The fall of the third wicket when only 22 runs had been made was an amazing contrast with the fall of the first three wickets in the first Australian inning; for 585 runs. Could anything have been brighter ?
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