A BRILLIANT START.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 108, 10 May 1927, Page 7

A BRILLIANT START.

MAORILAND CRICKETERS. Centuries By Jack Mfflls and Roger Blunt. DACRE'S DASHING DISPLAY. NEW ZEALANDERS MAKE 586 FOR NINE. The New Zealand cricketers yesterday opened their British tour in brilliant style with a score of 586 runs for nine wickets on the first of a two-days match against Mr. H. Martineau s Eleven at Holyport. It was against a side selected by the same enthusiast that the last Australian t-am opened their tour, ' ♦ I A* Ta/i ™ n °A t? U , nt in the official averages. This match, stated Mr. M. A. Noble on the occasion of the match last year, was not serious cricket, though the English side included but no To Cn f ket, - and , tHe m ° Bt en of all cricket but not to be taken too seriously. trial frJr^T" 88 ° f the Z ? aland balSmen in mal of strength comes as glad tidings to the people of the Dominion. A.century in his first game by Roger Blunt the hUmoH V "J**** AU^ d Colt ' J Mill »« and one of his most dashing displays by C. Dacre, also of Auckland are gloSTn ° f the fir9t day 8 Play that al, fol, ™«* of the gaTe w^fl