Talk:Australian cricket team in England in 1948

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Just a question,.. Why does this article state "... should be noted that the English sides were more weakened by the effects of the Second World War than the Australian side...?" WWII affected Australia just as much as it did the Old Enemy. Surely it can't be a simple equation of "...we lost X of our Test cricketers in the War and you lost X-1..."

I think this sentence should be removed. I'd welcome any comments???

Mark5677 13:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

It is a tad vague, England had played 13 post-War Tests prior to the 1948 series, so it wasn't as if it was the next day or anything. Though Jack Pollard puts it this way: "This was an England recovering from a savage war in which food and clothing rationing prevailed, luxuries were short, and steaks a rarity, while many of the grounds visited by the Australians still bore traces of wartime bombimg raids" --Paul 19:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
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