CRICKET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 228, 26 January 1910, Page 2

CRICKET.

The Taumarunui cricketers paid :i visit to Te Kuiti on .Saturday last and met the local players on the Domain. In the first innings the Te Kuiti players did badly, the side being disposed of for the small total of IVI. i The visitors on going to the wickcta made the respectable score of 171. In a subsequent game the local playcra did better, scoring 57 runs, to which Taumarunui replied with 81. Going in again, Te Kuiti made G3, and the visitors got the necessary number of run 3 for the loss of four wickets.

The visit should do a great amount of good to local cricket as there is much good material to hand, but the players are sadly in need of practice. A return visit by Te Kuiti to Tau-rmu-U"Mi is projected at an early date, and it h to be hoped good use will be made of the interval by the local men to get into form.

At the annual meeting of the AusBoard of Control on January 14th, it was decided to send a team to tour New Zealand, to consist of 13 members and a manager. A. Mackenzie, a prominent Wavcrlcy cricketer, has been appointed n'mager. If possible, four members of the Australian eleven who recently toured England will be included in tho team', which sails for Wellington on January 29, playing its first match against Wairarapa on February 4 and 5. The Board decided to ask the South African team which is visiting Australia to commence its tour in December oc this year, instead of January next, as proposed.

The Board approved of the scheme of triangular matches, which provide:! that England, Australia, and South Africa play each six test matches in England. Each country is to take half the gross gate taken at the match in which it takes part, and each visiting team, in addition to the tests, will piay one match with each first-class county and tho Marylcbone Club.