Cricket AUSTRALIAN TOUR ITINERARY
Matches In South Africa
(N.Z. Press Assoctatton Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 30. The Australian cricket team will have only a two-day break between the first and second test matches against South Africa during their 22-match tour starting next October, according to the tour itinerary released today. There will be five five-days tests —two at Johannesburg and one each at Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. ' The team of 15, which is expected to be announced next week, will leave Sydney by air on October 5. and will leave South Africa in the Dominion Monarch on March 15. Match dates are:— October 19. 21, 22: v. Northern Rhodesia Invitation XI, at Kitwe. October 25, 26, 28, 29: v. Rhodesia, at Salisbury. November 1,2, 4: v. Rhodesia, at Bulawayo. November 8,9, 11, 12: v. Transvaal. at Johannesburg. November 15. 16. 18, 19: v. South African XI, at Pretoria. November 22, 23, 25, 26: v. Natal, at Durban. November 29, 30. December 2: v. Border, at East London. December ff, 7. 9: v. Eastern Province. at Port Elizabeth. December 12. 13, 14, 17; v. Western Province, at Cape Town. December 20. 21: v. North-eastern Transvaal, at Benoni. December 23, 24, 26. 27. 28: v. South Africa, First Test, at Johannesburg. December 31. January 1,2, 3,4: v. South Africa, Second Test, at' Cape Town. January 7,8: v. South African Country Districts, at Pretoria. January 10, 11. 13, 14: v. Transvaal, at Johannesburg. January 17, 18, 20, 21: v. Natal, at Pietermaritzburg. January 24, 25, 27, 28, 29: v. South Africa, Third Test, at Durban. January 31, February 1. 3: v. Orange Free State and Basutoland, at Bloemfontein. February 7,8, 10, 11, 12: v. South Africa, Fourth Test, at Johannesburg. February 14. 15, 17: v. Griqualand West, at Kimberley. February 21, 22. 24, 25: v. Western Province, at Cape Town. February 28, March 1,3, 4,5: v. South Africa, Fifth Test, at Port Elizabeth. March 8, 10, 11: v. South African Universities, at Cape Town.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 15
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