AN ENGLISH CRICKET VISIT
/Mi ICKET enthusiasts will learn with pleasure of the New Zealand Cricket Council’s proposal to invite an English team for the season 1929-30. Major and minor associations are to be asked for their opinions, and there is little doubt that the governing bodies of cricket throughout the Dominion will agree that such a visit is to be desired. The value of a visit from an English team, well chosen, is beyond dispute. Its value, indeed, would be so great that it would be worth while to incur a slight financial loss for the sake of it, although the prospects for the proposed tour are, for several reasons, very good. New Zealand’s cricketing spirit has been well roused by the success of the team which visited England last year, and by the visits of a number of Australian teams, notably the very powerful one last season. In a few months an English eleven will be in Australia, and the Dominion’s interest in the Test and other matches will strengthen the wish to see an English team in New Zealand again, after so long an. interval. It is futile to count on Test matches before they are fixed; but if Marylebone were to send a team of Test standard and to allow New Zealand games Test status, the Dominion would enjoy sueli a season as never before, and be prepared' to pay for it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 7
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236AN ENGLISH CRICKET VISIT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 7
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