M.C.C. CABLES A REPLY TO AUSTRALIAN CRICKET BOARD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 713, 13 December 1933, Page 5

M.C.C. CABLES A REPLY TO AUSTRALIAN CRICKET BOARD

(Press Assn-

SICK OF DISCUSSION

-By Telegraph— Cc pyrlght) .

London, Dec. 11. The Marylebone Club cabled to the Australian Board of Control: "With reference to your cahle of November 16 you must please accept our cable of Octoher 9, which speaks for itself, as final. W,e cannot go beyond the assurance therein given. We shail welcome an Australian team next vear. If, however, your board decides that such games should be deferred we shall xegret the decision. Please let us know your final decision jas soon as possible, in any event, by the end of the year." A member of the Marylebone Committee said: "We are all heartily sick of these cables. All we want is xor the Australians to come and have a jolly good game as in the past. 1± Marylehone's assurance that we will play as hitherto is not good enough fcr them they had better stay away. The cablegram sent by the Australian Cricket Board of Control to the Marylebone Cricket Club stated that the board assumed that Marylehone's cablegram of October 9 was intended to give the assurance asked for in the board's message of September 22 (namely, that the type of bowling praetised by tbe Englishmen in Australia was not in the best interests of cricket). "On that understanding," said tbe board, "we are sending our team to England next year." The M.C.C.'s reply heartily reciprocated the desire for a continuation of cordial relations and said. "The M.C.C. agrees, ,and always has agreed, that a form of bowling which ohvionsly is a direct attack by a bowler on a hatsman would he an of fence against the spirit of the game, and your team certainly can take the field in England next year with the knowledge and fujll assurance that cricket will be played here in the same spirit as in the past, and with. the single desire to promote the best interests of the game in both countries."