THE CRICKET MATCH IMBROGLIO.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1490, 21 January 1882, Page 2

THE CRICKET MATCH IMBROGLIO.

A good deal of acrimonious discussion and adverse comment woujd seem to have been occasioned by the refusal of the Auckland Cricket Club to allow a Waikato Club team to try conclusions with the English cricketers on their grounds at Auckland. After detailing all the facts of the case in a lengthened communication forwarded to us by a representative of the Waikato Club, the writer proceeds to say: — "We are rather inclined to suspect that the true reason of their refusal is jealousy, as they know full well the Waikato is likely to play much better against the Engiishmen than they themselves expect to do. Indeed, our suspicions on that score are pretty well substantiated when we take into account that not one of the Waikato cricketers, who number about 120, are selected to play with Auckland in the forthcoming match. There is a* great deal of indignation and contempt for the mean behaviour of Auckland felt throughout the whole ot this place. We need not recount the way the Waikato was treated by Auckland last year, for which some of the hitter were so much ashamed that when they came to Waikato to play in last year's football match they voluntarily promised that if ever they had the chance, they would make every amend. However, the inconveniences the Waikato haa been put to by the petty jealousies of a few of the Auckland players are too well known, and of too mean a character to warrant their being further commented upon. Perhaps the Auckland representative 22 will come up and play a -22 of the Waikato after the English match, as the English are supposed to play a Provincial team, and not one from the city of Auckland alone. To vindicate their honor as the best 22 in this province, the "Auckland 22 are in honor bound to vanquish any of the others in the province."