Graveney May Be Dropped
(NZ.PA -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. An M.C.C. disciplinary committee inquiring into the case of T. W. Graveney, the veteran England test player who played for $2142 in a benefit match for himself last Sunday, will be held at Lord’s today. On the same day, the England team to play the second test against the West Indies will be announced, and there are doubts that Graveney will be In it He had been forbidden, because of the risk of injury, to take part in the benefit match last Sunday, which was on a rest day in the first test Graveney says that at his present age of 42, he could not afford to refuse the money. If Graveney is dropped for the second test he may well be replaced by JHampshire, of Yorkshire, who was twelfth man in the first
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 20
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