N.Z. CRICKETERS’ LONG TRIP
39 Hours By train To Port Elizabeth * [From the Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent with the team] '
(Rec. 12.10 a.m.) , PORT ELIZABETH, Nov. 6. The New Zealand cricket team arrived in Port Elizabeth at 7 a.m. today after an interesting but tiring 39hour journey by rail from Cape Town. Rabone, whose birthday it is today, has recovered well from the injury to his thigh muscles, and all the others are fit. except Mac Gibbon, who has also injured a thigh muscle, and will be tested at practice today. The team to play Eastern Province tomorrow will be announced this evening.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7
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