Criticisms
However, he never truly mastered batting on sticky wickets. Although O’Reilly commented that, “wet wickets had shown me that no batsman was really worth a damn when the ball was rising at varying heights”. "If there really is a blemish on his amazing record it is...the absence of a significant innings on one of those 'sticky dogs' of old, when the ball was hissing and cavorting under a hot sun following heavy rain. This is not to say he couldn't have played one, but that on the big occasion, when the chance arose, he never did".
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