N.Z. CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 158, 7 July 1933, Page 8

N.Z. CRICKET.

OUR PROFESSIONALS. OFFICIAL TEST MATCHES. STATEMENT BY MR. A. T. -iDoaransixx. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHURCH, this day. At a meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council, the chairman, Mr. A. T. Donnelly, said it was to be regretted that several of our players had been attracted to England as professionals, especially by the Lancashire League. "I know," he added, "at least one other Dlaver who has been approached. Most of them will be able to come back and play here for the greater part of the summer, though Merritt has accepted a football engagement that will keep him n EnglancL It is not. for the management or any other cricketer to object to the. principal that a man can capitalise his skill and sell it in the highest market. Mr. Donnelly also referred Test matches. He said the M.C.C. had aske<: Sat only matches played between New Zealand and England in England and matches between a New Zealand side and the returning English Test team from Australia should be regarded; as official Test matches That meant that: ,unce 193 New Zealand had been granted full lest status, and that matches m New Zealand with visiting teams not fully representative of England's strength could not be regarded as Tests. Mr. Donnelly stated that an Australian team will possibly visit New in February or March, 1934. He had found the Board of Control. agreeable to the resumption of such visits.