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>NEW. ZEALAND CRICKET TEAM. MANAGER’S VIEWS OF TOUR. AUCKLAND, May 21. Mr Douglas Hay, manager of the New Zealand cricket team, who returned to Auckland bv the Aorangi. spent nearly all the time of bis voyage from Vancouver in writing a detailed account of the tour. “I have all tho newspaper cuttings and my own notes,” bo said. “I mean to hand them over to the New Zealand Cricket Council for purposes of record. What may be done in the way of publishing them I do not know. “Tho tour is old history now,” added Mr Hay. “hut I can say this about it, we showed that New Zealanders can play as good cricket as anyone, given the opportunity. The trouble is that there are not the facilities. If we had our town population concentrated in one big cap' tal city with first-class grounds wo could produce as good cricket as any in Australia. Six of our side reached IQ0{) runs for the tour. Ido not know of an English County with more than four men who did the same. Our weakness was fielding, although what caused it I really do not know. When the ground fielding was not so bad we could not catch. Seeing that our batsmen did so well or.o expected that catching would give them no trouble, but it did. Wo could not field a good set of slips and that was hard on the bowlers.' - '
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1928, Page 4
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241CRICKET. Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1928, Page 4
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