CRICKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1921, Page 5

CRICKET.

NEW ZEALAND AND M.C.C. THE CANCELLATION JUSTIFIED. Bi’ Telegraph.—-Press Assn —Copyright. Received August 19, 11.25 p.m. London. August 19. Comtnenting on New Zealand breaking off negotiations with the M.C.C. after learning of the weakness of the M.C.C. team proposed to be sent there on the ground that the tour was not likely to be a financial success, Sporting Life says: “This may sound foreign to the ethics of the game, but remembering Marylebone’s profits in Australia the New Zealand council is justified in its attitude. The crux of the matter i-s ihe inability of our first-class amateurs to make, such a tour. If the M.C.C. had doubts on the point it would have been hotter to have declined the invitation than to have attempted to raise a scratch side.” THE TROUBLE AT HOME. PLEA FOR AN UNDERSTANDING. Received August 19, 11.25 p.m. London, August 19. Sporting Life says: “When Fry enters the arena to oppose the criticisms of Armstrong it is obvious all is not well with the inner circles of our cricket council. Misunderstandings which arose at the beginning of the Australian tour and the selection committee’s bad management of the English elevens demonstrate that the two countries need to get together more before another tour is undertaken by either country.”