Cricket 1958 TOUR OF ENGLAND

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 4

Cricket 1958 TOUR OF ENGLAND

15 Players To Be Taken There will be 15 players in the New Zealand cricket team to tour England next year. The suggestion that the number should be increased was discussed in committee at the meeting last week of the New Zealand Cricket Council’s Board of Control. The board reaffirmed its decision to send 15 players. This was annoynced last evening by the board’s secretary (Mr E. E. Luttrell) when he outlined the preliminary arrangements for trial matches next season.

There will be a trial at Christchurch early in December between a Canterbury team and a team drawn from South Island minor associations, excluding Nelson and Marlborough. When the Plunket Shield programme has been completed, there will be a North Island-South Island match. The venue has not been decided That game will be followed by a match, early in March, between a New Zealand team and the Rest of New Zealand. It has not yet been decided where this game will be played. Early in December a training squad of colts will be assembled at Auckland. The squad will be trained for a week by Mr W. M. Wallace, who in the last two seasons has been official coach for New Zealand test teams.