CRICKET.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20183, 11 March 1931, Page 13

CRICKET.

NEW ZEALAND TEAM.

T, C. tOWHY dAPTAIN AND

manager.

Cricket Council has announced that T. C. Lowry has been appointed captain' and manager nt-ibe New Zealand Cricket team, M Page vice-captain, and ,C. F. W. Allcott treasurer. The selection committee for the tour will be Lowry, and Allcott, and the players aoovQ mentioned have all accepted the appointments offered to them. The travelling arrangements for the tour nave been entrusted to Messrs T. H. Warner and Co., tourist agents, who, j**ter consultation with Mr Swan, the Council's representative in England, will control the whole tour from WeM hngton to Wellington; The committee has appointed Mr W. Ferguson as baggage master, and his experience for years paat in a similar position with Australian teams in England will »e or great assistance to ibe team dnrmg the tour, .' "* The committee has considered the necessity of • keeping the cost pf the tour aa towns possible, and is satisfied that the arrangements wil) enable the *m >r - 0 5 0 _, t,m >ngh with n<> loss of efficiency, The selectors havemade $ recommendation that a fifteenth man should be taken. The committee, after ran consideration of the recommenda* tion, has decided to limit the team to fourteen men in accordance with the instructions originally issued to the selectors.

The Gouncil has received a cable from the M.C.C., in answer to a cable trom ■ the Council, that the tour was going on. The M.C.C. expressed the' grest pleasure of English cricKeters at the* receipt of this informar SJSSvf"" £«*v giVwi « n additional 1250 towards the cost of the tour. The Council has received a cable 2J . Lonsdale and the members or the British Sportsmen's, Club inviting tbfi team to luncheon on the day after itg arrival.

WEST INDIES TEAM. f * UNHAPPY AGAINST SPIN BOWLERS. fotXSS ASSOCUtIOV TOMOSAX.) WELLINGTON, March 10. '•"We Tver®, rather disappointed with oar patting when up against 'spin bowlew, • indeed, we felt very / unhappy against ■ them," remarked Mr J. £ . Scheult, assistant manager of the West Indies cricket team, when speaking ot the team's experiences on the jirst tour of Australia. The twun arrived from. Sydney to^ay. MrScheult explained that the team .had at .first-found C. V. Grimmett very difiicuUj but later on became more con"ftqent facinK him. Ail recognised that *he f -Was a firat-clnss bowler. Ironmon,ge»Ato9, had been very, difficult, espe* C»stl|y Melbourne ground, where the£i?rick«t tana very stick?. The Sydneygroutid did not have the same terrors for, the team as was shown by the porfo'rmatteean ,the last match. ./fßuti fortheapia bowlers I think we well," „ Mfid itvWas shown at lend' M we were a Wtacft/lmprpved. battinj£#idei' We were , si<* a«n¥ e*fcenlT with the .-estpact; / Wfi found the Sydney ,wießet to be the fastest. Wiok- , stg.'fn ..the West Indies, however,' are faster than those in 'Ausi, v TKe West Indies 1 team were the guests of the Wellington Cricket Asao* ; ciation to-day and were taken lor a J *-• r•* "V '' I Wjjfr ' ' POSTPONED. /{ '^ r V uraws , m BUWI^IC syf W*m ' *>.6 p,- m -> .; , IyONDON, March 9. - ' ■ IT&fl Board of Control postponed, by ei£sht£to- four votes, the appointment of ths 'decided . %»!&%. ; sTjiSJl,'£««"foe two years and the .Jimffo&jitbe match county. - . Wr^B?& : '£. * '' iM*x* 4 mw- . } *, ' I. xl( - J u<*' l > I '' <* MarchlQtfi;'.§.s J 1 the in the appoint. m4i&}pl4h% selectors, the '♦Daily Tele- - spiting .editor says: '.'The f'tfipfrVtW siitely come tr change we chairmanship, , despite Mr Leveson* QiWQfs gfpat. work. Jfor' cricket, No; years, - consequently it -is esfcntMkl that M>ctual, touch i .ihtqufch!, Msdwmittee, wSfu_F. ;T, 5 Jfane. -G. Jackson caiJtein) Ti >nd J. t»» Wbite' te nerowaty to 1 satisfy , the increasing v ®umh9K tn% critics of the. > >-v-,s