ABSTRACT
The patrician E. W. Swanton, a reliable mouthpiece for current orthodoxy at Sir Pelham Warner Lord’s, wrote: Nothing is better to see than the ball hit hard and often when the conditions allow. But this ‘instant cricket’ is very far from being a gimmick and there is a place in it for all the arts of cricket, most of which are subtle ones. That is why the day was so enjoyable, not only for the patriots with their banners and their rosettes ‘up for the Cup’, but for the practising cricketers, past and present, of all ages and types, who seemed to form the bulk of the crowd. Everyone seemed to be ‘with it’. Likewise the New South Wales Cricket Association was reminded that one-day cricket should be seen only as a temporary wartime arrangement: The New South Wales C. A. experimented for a time with one afternoon games.
