BAD FIELD WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 16

BAD FIELD WORK

MR. A. T. DONNELLY’S OPINION OF N.Z.’S CRICKET LESSONS OF M.C.C. TOUR Press Associatio?i CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council lias received the following message from Mr. A. H. H. Gilligan: “The M.C.C. team wishes me to convey its sincerest appreciation to the New Zealand Cricket Council and to New Zealand for our most enjoyable and never-to-be-forgotten time.” Mr. A. T. Donnelly, chairman of the council, states that the profit on the tour will be £SOO. but the M.C.C. would have to pay the balance of the professionals’ fees. After praising the New Zealand batting, Mr. Donnelly says: “Unfortunately our bowling and fielding were of poorer quality altogether. New Zealand has not today, outside of Badcoek and Allcott, one • reliable length bowler. Before next season we must try to discover one or two length bowlers, preferably a righthand, off-spin bowler and a slow lefthand bowler with some flight and break. Our slow bowlers have done very well, but have suffered because it has been necessary to use them as stock bowlers at too high a cost. “Although the New Zealand bowling is far from good today, yet it has been made to look much worse by bad fieldin gin practically every New Zealand match.”