Springboks to be asked to play test at Perth?

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32486, 22 December 1970, Page 28

Springboks to be asked to play test at Perth?

(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) SYDNEY. The South African Cricket Association will probably be asked to consider a sixth test match at Perth, Western Australia, during the Springboks’ 1971 tour of Australia, informed cricket sources said in Sydney yesterday. The move shadows the remarkable success of the recentlycompleted second test at Perth between England and Australia, which was drawn.

It was the first test match Perth had seen. The spectators came along in droves, paying more than $lOO,OOO over the five days in gate receipts.

The programme committee of the Australian Cricket

Board of Control has prepared several alternate itineraries for the South African tour. One or more of these alternatives are believed to include a Perth test. The Board of Control will meet on January 26 next to ratify the programmes before their submission to the South African Cricket Association. Cricket sources said yesterday that it was almost certain that the Springboks would be asked to meet Australia in Perth.

The source also tipped that South Africa would accept the proposal of the sixth test. However, the chance of the South Africans making a short foray to New Zealand was entirely up to them, the sources said. Form.r boxer In hospital.—a. Dunlop, the former British Commonwealth, Australian, and Australasian light heavy-weight professional boxing champion, who retired a year ago undefeated for his title, Is in the Middlemore Hospital at Auckland, having suffered a cracked bone in the hip and three broken ribs when crushed between two trucks at his work,—(P.A.)