CRICKET

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21905, 5 October 1936, Page 5

CRICKET

OPENING OF SEASON CLUB PLAYERS PRACTISE IN SUMMER WEATHER Appropriate weather favoured the opening of the cricket season on Saturday, when clubs under the control of both the Canterbury Cricket Association and the Christchurch Suburban Association held their first serious practices of the season in preparation for the beginning of competition play this week. Although the sky was lightly clouded there was a warm nor’west breeze, and the parks and reserves of the city, resplendent in their new spring green, were a sight to gladden the hearts of cricketers. Club captains were busy taking stock of their new season’s material, and m many cases they found themselves with teams differing considerably from those that represented the respective clubs last season* Changes in the personnel of the senior sides have already been reviewed in detail. Practically all the senior cricketers of the province were at the nets on Saturday afternoon. ; . . The 1936-37 season promises to be exceptionally interesting, for apart from the usual club and mterprovincial matches there will probably be matches against, G. O. Allens English -test side and the Indian team captained by the Maharajah of Nawangar. This season, too, there should be unusual opportunities for young players to find a place ift the xepresentative