N.Z. Selectors In Dispute
(N Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND.
Disappointment that with the large number of four-day tests the New Zealand cricket team faces in the next three years, players were still forced to play three-day Plunket Shield games was expressed by the Auckland and national selector, Mr K. Deas, yesterday.
He was referring to a statement released by the chairman of the national selection panel. Mr M. C. Chappel. that
players would have to “train themselves to last the full three days of shield cricket at least” if they wished to make the New Zealand team.
“They should be playing four-day cricket now in representative games,” said Mr Deas. “Just look at the programme New Zealand faces. “We have Australia here in February, then we go to Australia. India comes here in 1968, the West Indies follow the next season and then we go to England.
“That’s a demanding programme and every test will run to four days.
"Yet we are supposedly preparing our players for these matches by setting them three-day games.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31236, 7 December 1966, Page 23
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