CRICKET Changes In N.Z. Team To Play Australians

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 12

CRICKET Changes In N.Z. Team To Play Australians

Three more Canterbury players have been included in the New Zealand team to play the Australians in the fourth and final international cricket match beginning in Auckland on Friday. They are B. A. Bolton, who replaces the injured G. T. Dowling; J. T. Ward, who has been chosen as wicketkeeper in preference to E. C. Petrie; and A. R. Mac Gibbon, who replaces K. W. Hough.

The 12 players chosen are: J. R. Reid (Wellington) captain.

been disappointing in the unofficial tests this year. Bolton was- in the first test and he had a successful Plunket Shield season. Mac Gibbon, a regular New Zealand player for nearly 10 years, will be appearing against the Australians for the first time this season. He did well in the shield matches. The team chosen shows that the selectors are not yet ready to try such extremely promising young players as B. F. Hastings (Wellington), K. Thomson (Canterbury), and R. W. Morgan (Auckland). If this is a somewhat cautious selection it probably gives New . Zealand its strongest team this season. Ward should be an asset, and if the omission of Petrie has cost the side something in batting, the inclusion of Mac Gibbon for

B. Sutcliffe (Otago). B. A. Bolton (Canterbury). B. W. Sinclair (Wellington). S. N. McGregor (Otago). J. T. Sparling (Auckland). J. W. Guy (Otago). A. R. Mac Gibbon (Canter* bury). G. A. Bartlett (Central Districts) . R. C. Motz (Canterbury). J. C. Alabaster (Otago). J. T. Ward (Canterbury). Ward was a member of the 1958 New Zealand team in England. but this will be the first

■Hough is more than compensation. Hough did not bowl well on the last day at Dunedin. Although Mac Gibbon is not fast he is a lively bowler, and the first three matches have shown that the Australians do not relish pace.

time he has represented his country in an international match. Petrie was outstanding on that tour, but his form has