DOMINION CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 263, 6 November 1929, Page 9

DOMINION CRICKET.

M.C.C. TEAM'S TOUR. PROPOSED ENGLISH VISIT. JBy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The thirty-fourth annual report of the New Zealand Cricket Council states that preliminary expenses connected with the coming tour of the M.C.C. team faced the management committee with a heavy charge for the fares of the team, but that satisfactory arrangements to' meet this were come to with the council's bankers. The balance of the outstanding guarantees from the various associations more than covered the bank overdraft. On the success of the tour will depend the future financial position of the council, but arrangements come to will, as far as it is humanely possible to foresee, at least enable the council to avoid a deficit. The financial statement shows the preliminary expenses of the M.C.C. team's tour to be £2583 to date. The guarantees for the tour amount to £2573. The excess of assets over liabilities is £530 18/5. With reference to the visit of a New Zealand team to England in 1931, the report says the financing of the tour is a matter which must be considered by the council during the coming season. It was not the general intention of the management committee that New Zealand teams should go to England at such short intervals as four years. It felt that visits to England should, as a general rule, not be oftener than every six or eight years. However, the committee was of the opinion that exception should be made for the second tour so that the services of some players who toured England in 1927 could be had. The committee recognised that the possibility of young men playing so much cricket that their life's work might be prejudiced or affected had to be guarded against. However, the committee, after consideration, was in favour of a tour in 1931.