NEXT CRICKET SEASON.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 379, 10 March 1937, Page 4

NEXT CRICKET SEASON.

DESIRE FOR AUSTRALIAN TEAM’S VISIT. Press Association —Copyright. Dunedin, L*aet Night. Measures to secure a visit from an Australian team next season Were advocated at a meeting of the Otago Cricket Association to-night. Tlhe following resolution was carried: That this association desires to express the opinion thait the utmost ’.benefit would accrue to New Zealand cricket from a visit from an Australian team during next season. We respectfully urge that the New ( Zealand Council leave no sTone unturned to secure such a visit and the leant, if possible, to include Tmadman. Palmerston N., March 9. i “If we could get anything definite i to go on that Norman. Gallichan was left out for any reason not connected I with his ability as a cricketer, then ;we should press for an inquiry,” I said Mr. A. M. Ongley, the chairman, I at a meeting of the management J committee of the Manawatu Cricket I Association in discussing the selection ! of the New Zealand cricket team for 1 England. He said the association and I cricketers generally were disappointI ed at the non-inclusion of Gallichan, | but he did not know that the associa- ■ tion had any more power than, for in j stance, had the Palmerston North I Chamber of Commerce, which had inI terested itself in the matter. I It did seem unfortunate that after ten years of good cricket Gallichan should have missed three trips to England. His exclusion was commented

upon not only in Manawatu but all over New Zealand. However, he did not know that as an association they had power to do much about it. There was now a vacancy for a slow bowler,’ and they could only hope that Gallichan would get it. If there was anything th? rssocia tion could do>, he would be prepared to move in the matter, but it w’as in the hands of the selectors and th” New Zealand Cricket Council. They could only hope ithiat the selectors would repair the previous omission by including Gallichan.