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Rh nine or ten years, however, in Australia there has practically been no sort of equality between batting and bowling. As Mr. Howell said, "You can't get a good batsman out; he gets himself out sometimes." This is beginning to be true even in England, and though a wet season will produce a change, wet seasons are impossible in Australia. Though the present state of things is cricket, it is not cricket of the best and most interesting type; and in the interest of the game 'twere better that some change should be made.