Helping N.Z. Cricket
Sir, —The chairman of the Ntw Zealand Cricket Council’s board of control, Mr J. L. Kerr, was no doubt right when he said that during the last 16 years Australia had done all that New Zealand had asked of her by way of helping the game in this country. But have we gone far enough in making our requests? Benaud, for one, seems to think there is scope for more reciprocity. The international programme may be overcrowded, but what obstacle could there be to an arrangement for New Zealand to play an annual fixture against the Australian State which won the Sheffield Shield? The game eould be played in each country alternately during, say, March, and even if one side or the other were occasionally weakened through international commitments such a fixture could still be held. I respectfully suggest that the New Zealand Cricket Council should consider pressing for what could be a useful cricket link between the two countries which would have the advantage of regularity. —Yours, etc, J. B. THOMSON. Dunedin, March 19, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30085, 20 March 1963, Page 7
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