CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1927, Page 2

CRICKET.

N.Z. TEAM. TO PLAY IN SYDNEY. . V. (Australian <fc N.Z. Cable Association. WELLINGTON. Aug. 15. Air D. Reese, Chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, confirms the statement that the New Zealand team will play a match in Sydney at the beginning of October, on their way hack to the Dominion. The Council would have liked to arrange games in Adelaide and Alelbourne, but it was too early in the season and would take up too much time. New South Wales offered 90 per cent of the net gate. Air Reese found the Australian authorities almost unanimous that all negotiations for visits in the future should be with the Board of Control, and not with individual States. It will' he brought before the New Zealand Council.

He discussed the question of a visit from an Australian eleven next season as there would he no chance in the following summer, while the English team is in Australia, and is able to say that the Board of Control will send n side over in February and Afarcli next, as a sort of try out. The members will he tiie prospective eleven men, such as Keptson and Jackson will he found. Quite keen interest was taken in the doings of tiie New Zealand team who were considered to have performed so well that the Australians were keen to see them in action in Sydney;

The New Zealand team commences 5 the match against Sydnev on October 28th.

WELLINGTON CLUBS

WELLINGTON. Aug. 10

Wellington has at present ten senior clubs playing cricket, the number of which many good judges think is excessive, as there are nothing like 110 players really worthy of senior rank. Years ago district clubs were tried, but the objections gradually grew till they were abandoned, and under tlie free trade system, extra clubs were foimed till they have become unwiei'dly in number. Various schemes Were proposed to meet the difficulty, to all of which more or less hostility was shown.

One of them, to reduce the list to six b.v amalgamation, c-anie before the association last night, hut the opposition of vested interests was too strong and it was thrown out. Opponents frankly averred that they did not care about the interests of the game as a whole, and preferred those of their own pet clubs. ENGLISH COACH CHOSEN. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 10. A prominent English cricketer, A. A Wilson, of Yorkshire, has been chosen as coach for the Northern Division of the Taranaki Cricket Association for next season, and will arrive in September. Wilson is 4 7 years of age, and comes of a great cricketing family, with a good record in the Yorkshire Ci'tlb since the war. He has played League eiicket, in which he has topped the batting averages. LARWOOD’S INJURY. (Received this day at S a.m.) LONDON, Jug. 16. Larwood is unlikely to p’ay again tin’s season. He broke dawn after bowling nine overs at Trentbndge. It appears he strained and inured Ills knee when batting and the bowling aggravated the trouble.