Talk:Third Test, 1948 Ashes series

Orphaned references in Third Test, 1948 Ashes series
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Third Test, 1948 Ashes series's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "sco5": From Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948:  From Lindsay Hassett:  From Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948:  From Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948:  

Reference named "report4": From Ian Johnson with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: "> From Lindsay Hassett:  From Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: </li> </ul>

Reference named "sco4":<ul> <li>From Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: </li> <li>From Keith Miller: </li> <li>From Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: </li> <li>From Lindsay Hassett: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Grammar?
"The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain" - I was expecting to see "were". I know that there is sometimes ambiguity about "was/were" and "is/are" but the way I am reading this sentence, "was" really doesn't feel right, since the subject of the verb is Day 4 and half of Day 5. I am now curious whether I am misreading in some way! TheGrappler (talk) 21:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you're right  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket )  23:08, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

The 747-7 score mentioned in the background sections was against Essex, not Gloucestershire. The runs were made in a single day's play (probably that was the record). Bradman made well over 150. I remember hearing Trevor Bailey, long after retirement, commentating on a Test Match, denying that he had bowled to Bradman that day - whoever he was bowling to, he managed to send down 37 overs, the second most-used of the Essex bowlers, according to the scorebook. Cricket's a funny game.Delahays (talk) 21:25, 6 March 2019 (UTC)