Letter Box
Sir, How disappointed your N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent must have felt after the Lords test when lan Chappell said how very happy he had always been with English umpires. Surely Chappell realised that a threat to abandon the tour was wanted. At least he could have expressed anger and outrage. Even a few sneers would have made good copy. But nothing. And so another determined attempt to provoke ill-will out of cricket has failed. Still, it left a nastytaste, and your man need not fear he will soon be driven to describing the actual play. Or trying to. Here is a tip for him. The next test is to be played at Headingley. They have crooked groundsmen up there, skilled in preparing pitches that collapse whenever Australians bat on them. How do they do it? This is the scandal your correspondent must expose. If he does a proper job, the match need never start. — Yours, etc., G. V. ORANGE
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 12
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