M.C.C. HOAXED.
CABLEGRAM FROM INDIA. DROPPING CERTAIN PLAYERS. LONDON, August 23. Cricket, circles are chuckling over a practical joke played on the BJarylebone Cricket Club authorities.
A cablegram signed "President, Indian Board of Control," was received the other day asking the M.C.C. to drop certain players from the team to tour India.
The M.C.C. apparently having learned to be canny during the long cabled negotiations with Australia, is understood to have repeated the words of the cablegram back to India adding: "Cannot believe you sent it." Tho secretary of the Indian Board of Control considers the hoax to be deplorable, but intends to let the matter drop. Marylebone authorities declined to comment.
The mystery is deepened by the disclosure that the president of the Indian Board of Control, Mr Govam, actually cabled expressing a hope that D. R. Jardine's injury would not prevent him from making the trip, and regretting that Wyatt, Sutcliffe, Hammond and Paynter would be unable to come.. Mr Govan also named several players whom India would like to see. He now says: "Possibly some cablegrams unknown to me, were sent to iMarylebone, but there is no mystery about the fact that I did cable them."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 2
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