AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

NO DOMINION TOUR. i 'Received 12.30 p.m.) ' MELBOURNE, this day. [ The Board of Cricket Control decided t that it was uimblc to accede to New Zealand's request, to fiend a cricket team t to tbe Dominion in 11)22. — (A. and N.Z.) c Negotiations were entered into by the i N.Z. Cricket Council vrith the Australian i Board of Control Home months ago. i ' when an rlTort to grit a visit to New j ~ Zealand of a team of prominent English 1 amateurs proved aborftive. It was de- i sired to get from Australia a strong at- < traction in a team t oat would include , , a- number of tho members' of the Australian team which hs<l had such a successful season in Erjjland and South * Africa. For a time it seemed certain that an Australian team of tbe kind would be obtained lov a New Zealand visit, and arrangements were in proI j gross for a February->iarch programme , !Of matches. The failure of negotiations , flinearis that the only outside attraction that will be seen in Auckland this sea- , son after the Plunket Shield games are concluded this month, -will be the touring team of Australiaai teachers. The N.Z. Council has nrairtieally concluded arrangements for a visit to the Dominion iext x-ea.r of a team of English amateurs captained by A. (!'. Maularen, of All England fame, and including a number of the amateurs who went in the team thai inflicted a surprise defeat on the triumphant Australian EHeven last year.