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)
A couple of points:
- 1. I like the squad box. I think the manager should be retained. Being tour manager was quite a prestigious position. I would remove the numbering of the players, though. Otherwise people are liable to think that the numbers are significant in some way, even - horrors - that they wore them on their shirts!
- 2. I'd delete "Main article: 1948 Ashes series". Surely this is the main article, and there is no requirement for another one.
JH (talk page) 17:05, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I've now expanded the section on the Tests by cannibalising what I originally wrote for 1948 English cricket season. JH (talk page) 21:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)