IMPRESSIONS OF CHRISTCHURCH

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27603, 9 March 1955, Page 14

IMPRESSIONS OF CHRISTCHURCH

Team’s “Nostalgia”

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

LONDON, March 7. Brief reports are published by the majority of the British national newspapers of the M.C.C.’s match with Canterbury. Many morning papers are giving the lunch-time score in the stop press.

There has been comparatively little comment, but Charles Bray, in the “Daily Herald,” says: “Nostalgia: Those of us on the M.C.C. tour who have not been to New Zealand before almost thought that by some miracle we’ had been transported back to England. “Everything round us looks English, even to the policemen, who wear the same uniform as the London ‘Bobbies.’

“The hotel is just what you could find in any home county town, and when we got to the cricket, umpires with long white coats and any old trousers and hats were a relief from the musical comedy turn-out we had become accustomed to in Australia. “We were back to six-ball overs, too, and a gateman who said ’Please.’ “The Lancaster Park ground is as green as Worcester, and almost as beautiful, and the wicket is a beauty.”