MEETING BEST TEAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 12

MEETING BEST TEAMS.

NEW ZEALANDERS' PROSPECT DEFINITE REQUEST UNWISE. MR. REESE'S OPINION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHX'RCII, this day. "I think we can quite safely leave the team in the hands of the English authorities," said Mr. D. Reese, chairman of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Crickrt Council, when asked if he cared to pass any comment on the telegraphed remarks of Mr. Stan Brice, one of the selectors of the team, in reference to the absence of some of the prominent players from the county sides.

"The Englishmen are only doing now what the Australians have done to New Zealand over a long term of years." continued Mr. Reese. "I feel quite certain the plav of the New Zealanders to date has in itself sufficiently demonstrated, at any rate to Sussex and Worcestershire, the mistake of leaving out their crack bowlers.

There is plenty of cricket ahead of the present team to enable them to force the leading counties to play something like their best sides. One must also remember the English counties' point of view. Thev all have big seasons, and even counties like Yorkshire and Lancashire and others frequently rest their star bowlers against the weaker counties. It would be savouring a little of presumption on New Zealand s part to make any definite request to the English counties on this matter."