Surprise for Benaud
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY. The former Australian cricket captain, Richie Benaud, has been surprised to find that the Plunket Shield series in New Zealand is played over only one round. Benaud, in New Zealand as a reporter and commentator during the tour by England, said in the “Daily Mirror,” of Sydney, yesterday that it was incredible that New Zealand should be able to field a test team on that preparation, let alone one that was doing well in international cricket “Would Australia be as good in similar circumstances? I very much doubt tt,” he said. Benaud was “astonished” that the New Zealand players were paid only $lOO a test “Australia’s cricketers, who class themselves as militants these days, should make a closer study of New Zealand cricketers’ plight before expressing their displeasure,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 18
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