STATUS OF GAME AT WELLINGTON
The New Zealand Cricket Council’s Board of Control will write to the Wellington Cricket Association, outlining its reasons for deciding not to give first-class status to the match between Wellington and members of the 1949 New Zealand team.
The Wellington association forwarded a letter from the Wellington captain, R. T. Barber, asking why the match had not been classed as first-class. Barber said the “token form of tossing” had taken place at the wish of the opposing captain. Barber said he would not have done it had he thought it would affect the status of the game.
The captain of the 1949 team, Mr W. A. Hadlee, said it was a charity match, and was played as such, “as far as we were concerned.” “I said to Barber, "This is your game’ and that they might as well run it to produce the best possible gate. He thanked me and said it would be better for them to bat and for us to bat the next day. It was done not on my wishes, but on my offer to help.” Mr J. A. Ongley said the board’s decision was right, but Wellington might have been asked about the circumstances. When the board wrote, it might also have said why the game had not been recognised as first-class. The decision had been recommended by the executive before the match was played, and then approved by the board. The board agreed to write to Wellington outlining the reasons for the decision.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 6
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