CAPTAIN'S CONFIDENCE
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(By Telegraph-
DUNEDIN, Feb. 25. M. L. Page, captain of the New Zealand cricket team to tour England, speaking at a gathering of cricketers here indicated his personal part in shaping the destinies of the team. "The side is going away with the critics shouting and crying, and with the selectors scratching their heads ever the problem of bowlere," he said-. "Apart from this lack, some of the greatest sides in the world could be chosen from New Zealand cricketers," he asserted, "New Zealand 's first five batsmen are the equal of those in any other part of the world, exeept Stan McCabe and Don Bradman, of Australia, and Maurice Leyland and Walter Hammond, of England. "Our fielding us usually terrible, not so much on'the ground as in the air; but my aim is to make this team a Teally good fielding side,"- he said. All he wanted was the loyal support of those going away on the trip to achieve that Tesult.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 36, 26 February 1937, Page 5
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