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Rh the originator of a style of bowler of which, on the whole, in England, Lohmann of Surrey has been the most conspicuous example. In the same way, a great deal of the modern scientific Australian batting has been due to the opportunities given to the Australians of observing English play. After twenty-one years' international cricket it may be said that on hard wickets—of which, on the whole, the Australians have more experience than we—they play a more winning game; on soft wickets the Englishmen, having greater opportunities of practice, would probably win a majority of matches.

There has not in England been quite enough certainty in the way of weather to establish once and for all a certain stamp or class of play; I mean by this, that if we had nine or ten years of weather such as we have had in 1899 we should probably have been driven to learn more of the Australian stamp of bowling than we have, though we have gone some way in this direction already. In the same way, if in Australia they could have greater facilities for practising batting on slow bowlers' wickets,