COLTS FOR ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 5

COLTS FOR ENGLAND.

AUSTRALIA'S NEXT TEAM.

NEW ZEALAND PLAYER RETURNS,

Australia is training a number of young players in preparation for the team which is to go to England next year to try to win back the Ashes, according to Mr. Roger C. Blunt, the New Zealand representative cricketer, who, it will be remembered, was included in Wisden's portraits of "Five Cricketers of the Year" in 1928, being the first New Zealander to achieve that distinction. ''There will probably be a number of colts in the 1930 team to the Old Country," said Mr. Blunt, who returned from a short visit to Sydney by the Ulimaroa this morning. "There are dozens of them at the nets every day, and they are being closely watched by the selectors, of whom Mr. M. A. Noble is the principal." The reason for Mr. Blunt's visit to Sydney was to give evidence in the case in which the Union Steamship Company is defending a claim of £30,000 by the owners of the ferry steamer Greycliff, which sank in Sydney Harbour after a collision with the R.M.s. Tahiti. Mr. Blunt, who was returning with the New Zealand cricket team which visited England, was a passenger on the Tahiti. "The case is likely to run a long time," he remarked. "When I loft Sydney it had been going for over three da;> r s, and evidence by witnesses for the plaintiffs was still being heard."