ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 8

ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND. ■ TO COMMENCE IN FEBRUARY. . Nine matches, including a test, will be played in New Zealand during the coming cricket season by a team of well-known internationals from England under Sir Julien Cahn. Among the players likely to make the tour are Roger Blunt and Stewart Dempster, formerly of New Zealand; R. J. Crisp and Dennis Morkel, famous South Africans; lan Peebles and Walter Robins, English stars; C. R. Maxwell, the Notts wicket-keeper; W. E. Astill, of Leicestershire; and Victor Jackson, J. G. Lush, H. Mudge and J. E. Walsh, four former New South Wales colts, who have been in England for some time. Dempster is certain to be in the party, and will probably arrive before the other members of the team. ; Details of the itinerary were completed this week, but it may be a few days before the exact personnel of the side can be known. The latest information from London was to the effect that the team would not be finally selected before the completion of the present English season and until the M.C.C. side for South Africa had been chosen. Sir Julien Cahn, one of England’s greatest cricket enthusiasts, is well known to New Zealand teams that have toured Great Britain, and he has been keen for some time to make a visit to the Dominion. In recent years the cricketers in his employ have toured South Africa, West Indies, South America, Ceylon and the Malay States. He possesses at Nottingham a private ground which has been described as the best in the world. Most of the men under him have been engaged to work in one or other of his chain of department stores, which are spread throughout England./ They play for the team when required. and have not forfeited their amateur status. The tour starts on February 11 with a match in Auckland against a combined college team. The full itinerary is:— February 11: v. Combined Colleges, at Auckland. February 14 and 15: v. South Auckland, at Hamilton. February 17 and 18: v. Taranaki, at New Plymouth. February 20 and 21: v. a Combined Minor Association’s Eleven, at Palmerston North. February 24, 25 and 27: v. Canterbury, at Christchurch. March 1 and 2: v. Combined South Island Colleges, at Oamaru. March 3, 4 and 6: v. Otago, at Dunedin. March 10. 11 and 13: v. New Zealand, at Wellington. March 17, 18 and 20: v. Auckland, at Auckland.