CRICKET’S QUICK START
THE cricket season in Auckland will start with a rattle and a rush tomorrow. Perhaps with too much of a rush. Many players have not handled a bat since last season, and most of the grounds are only just recovering from the battering they received in a very wet and soggy football season. Still, there is nothing like an early start, even though it is hard to visualise tomorrow's rush programme as senior championship cricket. There is a big season ahead. Labour Day and Anniversary Day have both been annexed (definitely in one case, tentatively in the other) in a burst of preseasonal enthusiasm,.but it is a matter for genuine regret that even Christmas Day is to be made use of for a Plunket Shield match. By the end of next March, even the most perfervid enthusiast will feel that he has had his fair share of cricket for one season. There are two splendid Plunket Shield matches at Christmas and early in the New respectively. Later, comes the longawaited English team’s visit, and the prospect of seeing some of the world’s greatest players in action, first against Auckland, and then in the Third Test against New Zealand. It should be a boom year for the disciples of King Willow, and provided it is not overdone, a season of healthy progress.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 12
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