WICKETS NOT GOOD.
CRITICISM BY M.cLAKEN. SOMETHING WRONG WITH SOIL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday . The visiting English cricketers indulged in practice to-day. MacLaren aaid he had been unable to form a definite opinion of New Zealand cricket, but he was quite sure the test match would be a hard struggle. Speaking on the question of wickets, MacLaren said so far he had not played on a good wicket in New Zealand. Something was wrong with the composition of the soil, and the -wickets became powdery after a few days' batting. In England a great deal of time was spent in getting suitable soil so that the wicket would bind. Regarding watering the wickets, he would never allow such a thing to be done, as it was against the principles of cricket as understood in England.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 7
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