OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 186, 8 August 1935, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

TARRANT'S TROUBLES. Cricketers for India and Bengali Rumours. RAJAH'S MONEY THE REPLY. (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.? SYDNEY, this day. Emphatic denial of a cable from Calcutta that the Maharajah of Patiala was not financing the Australian cricket team's visit to India has been made by Mr. Frank Tarrant.

"The Maharajah is definitely sponsoring the tour, and I, as his agent, am arranging for the payment of players. The money has been deposited in a Melbourne bank. Heports that the Bengal Association would share in the profits are quite wrong, because the Maharajah does not intend to accept any money."

Tarrant described the team he had selected as one of the best Australia could send.

The report from India, to which Mr. Tarrant refers, states that it was revealed at a meeting of the Bengal Cricket Board yesterday that the Maharajah of Patiala is not financing Mr. Frank Tarraut's Australian cricket tour of India.

The Indian Control Board is asking for guarantees from the provincial associations, and the Bengal board refused to give a guarantee on the ground that the team approved by the Australian Board would not be a sufficient attraction in Calcutta.

If the Maharajah of Patiala does finance the tour the Bengal Board will be willing to arrange matches and to share the profits with him. Other provinces are likely to follow Bengal's lead.

The whole situation would be changed if the Australian Board allowed Woodfull, Ponsford and Kippax to come. Otherwise the Indian Board, which is to meet on August 11, is likely to throw out the tour as India does not want Australia's third or fourth Test team. AFRICAN CRICKETERS. Rowan Scores Century Against Warwick. 2TOUBSE 99 NOT OUT. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON", August 7. The South African cricketers began a three-day match against Warwickshire, at Birmingham. The visitors batted first, and at stumps had made 307 for six wickets. A stubborn second wicket stand between Eowan and Viljoen laid the foundation of a big total. The cricket, however, was uninteresting until Nourse and Cameron got together. Cameron scored 50 in 40 minutes, compared to Rowan's 250 minutes' stand. Scores:— SOUTH AFRICA.—First Innings. Mitchell, c Collins, b Paine 17 Rowan, b Paine 102 Viljoen, st Smart, b Wyatt 37 Nourse, not out 09 Siedle, b Paine 18 Cameron, c Smart, b Wilmott .... 73 Dalton, c Wyatt, b Paine 3 Langton, not out 2 Extras 1C Total for six wickets 367