M.C.C Team for N.Z Next Cricket Season

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 1

M.C.C Team for N.Z Next Cricket Season

BERTHS PENCILLED PLANS NOT YET DEFINITE (United Service) Reed. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Arrangements are progressing to dispatch an M.C.C. cricket team to New Zealand. The berths have been booked tentatively on the Rangitiki, via Panama, or alternatively the Orient Line, via Suez. It is learned, however, that there is still a possibility that the tour may be abandoned. Earl Jellicoe stated that arrangements had not yet been concluded with the New Zealand Cricket Council. The matter is still indefinite. Cricket authorities are surprised at the suggestion from Australia that the team should begin its tour with a series of games in Australia. It is unlikely that the team will be of testmatch calibre. Defeats in Australia are therefore probable, thus prejudicing the success of the subsequent New Zealand games. If the Australian games are abandoned, the team will probably catch the Rangitiki Home again.

PLAYERS SUGGESTED EVERY PROMISE OF GOOD SIDE NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING Press Association CHRISTCPIURCH, Today. Negotiations between the Marylebone Cricket Club and the New Zealand Cricket Council for the visit of an M.C.C. team to the Dominion in 1929-30 are proceeding. It is expected that something definite will be known shortly. Mr. W. H. Winsor, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, stated that the names of a number of players had been suggested, and there w r as every promise of a good side being available. The council was endeavouring to arrange for the Englishmen to play a few matches in Australia before coming to the Dominion.