Cricketers to train in Hamilton

Press, 12 April 1978, Page 32

Cricketers to train in Hamilton

1 PA Auckland i The New Zealand cricket ’ team will have a two-day i training camp in Hamilton i immediately before leaving 'from Auckland for the JuneSeptember tour of England. ‘‘The plan is to assemble the team in Hamilton on the morning of June 8 so they can use the indoor training school at Seddon Park,” said Mr Barry Paterson, the team manager. “The aim is to leave Auckland on the evening of June 10, so the players can' have two days together. During that time we will also complete the paper work and outfitting, -and the' national selectors have been invited to attend in case they wish to talk to the players.” Mr Paterson said there had been slight changes in: the tour itinerary. The first match, a three-day game in Copenhagen to celebrate the l twenty-fifth anniversary of the Danish Cricket Associ-i ation, would not now be played. There was some problem

for Denmark to provide the extra money the New Zealand team would require for the short detour before arriving in England. Instead the New Zealanders will finish their tour with a twoday game against the Netherlands in Amsterdam, where cricket is a growing and popular sport. The New Zealand team will assemble in Britain. Geoff Howarth and John Wright have already left to join their counties, Surrey and Derbyshire respectively, before the start of the tour. Richard Hadlee, who will play with Mark Burgess in an international double- I wicket tournament in London starting or> April 23, plans to remain in England and hopes to arrange some l cricket before the tourj starts. Burgess has arranged that: fitness training schedules,! prepared some time ago by Professor Ash Lewis, of Canterbury University, have been sent to the team members.