CRICKET VISITORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1922, Page 5

CRICKET VISITORS.

ENGLISH AMATEUR TEAM. TO TOUR NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A letter has been issued by the management committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council to all affiliated associations, setting out the proposed policy of the committee in regard to the visit of the English amateur team, under the captaincy of MacLaren, during the coming season. The letter states: “Your committee are now able to report that arrangements have been practically completed with the M.C.C.. and that an English amateur team, selected and captained by A. C. MacLaren, will play a series of matches in New Zealand and Australia next season. The present financial position of the council does , not allow us to consider the possibility of a Dominion team going on tour for some time, but your committee propose to establish a reserve fund for this purpose. With this object in view, we propose to shoulder the whole financial responsibilities of the M.C.C. tour. “In the event of the tour being the financial success we. anticipate, associations controlling matches on behalf of the council will be allowed not less than 10 per cent, of the nett profits from their matches, the amount to be allocated by the committee at the conclusion of the tour. We ask for the support of all associations to this proposal, as your committee feel certain it is only by sending our players on todr periodically that we can improve our cricket to the standard which will enable us to compete on equal terms with the great centres of cricket.”