KNOCK-OUT CUP

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30998, 2 March 1966, Page 18

KNOCK-OUT CUP

Suggestion To End Season

A variation of the English Gillette Cup one-day knockout cricket competition will probably be played on the final two Saturdays of March. The Canterbury Cricket Association’s management committee will decide, at its next meeting on March 15, how to occupy senior teams on March 19 and 26. The senior competition is scheduled to finish on March 12.

The competitions committee has three suggestions before the management committee:— The equivalent teams in the senior A and B grades play each other (winner v. winner, runner-up v. runner-up, etc.).

The senior teams be redrawn to play each other. Each team to play two games, to consist of an hour and a half batting for each team.

However, a scheme put forward by Mr R. T. Dowker appears to have considerable support. It provides for the senior teams to remain in their divided competitions and to play knock-out matches. On the second Saturday, the winners would play each other —for the knock-out competition—and the losing sides meet for the wooden spoon.