Delayed By Rain

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 21

Delayed By Rain

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R T. BRITTENDEN.

Special Correspondent N Z PA )

LONDON. April 28. T. W. Jarvis has been con-

There is still no sign of English spring weather relenting and allowing the New Zealand cricket team to have its first practice since the test match ended at Karachi on April 14. Nets were to have been held at Lord’s on Monday and yesterday, but both practices had to be cancelled because of persistent cold and showery weather. Today, the team will make a bus journey to Eastbourne to begin serious training for the match against Worcester on May 5. The fixture against the Duke of Norfolk’s XI at Arundel on Sunday is the last training opportunity before the team moves to Worcester next Monday.

fined to his hotel since the team arrived in London last Friday with skin inflammation of his leg and a painful boil near his left shoulder. Jarvis has been singularly unfortunate for he has been unwell since the middle of the Delhi test at the end of the Indian section of the tour, but he is now showing improvement. R. C. Motz, also is confident his recovery from muscle injury at Karachi would soon be complete. Both J. T. Ward and G. T. Dowling, who had their right hands in plaster, are now free of bandages and are exercising to recover full use of their hands.