M.C.C. Tour Still On
ef < at (NZ.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright} ’« RAWALPINDI, in The touring M.C.C. cricket i). team will visit Pakistan as scheduled, playing two extra matches in West Pakistan to compensate for the fixtures >n- cancelled in East Pakistan. [’_■ The touring team will play a. a three-day match in Bahwalir- pur and a test match in LyalIpur. These will replace the three-day game against the Governor’s XI at Chittagong . and the test match in Dacca. In Ceylon, the tidy and efficient M.C.C. attack and outfield restricted All-Ceylon to 191 for five on the opening day of their three-day match. , Not -until the last half hour of play, when the M.C.C. took . the new ball, did the batsmen " raise their scoring rate above n two runs an over. e
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31902, 1 February 1969, Page 7
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