Hadlee ‘not costlY’

Press, 30 November 1978, Page 6

Hadlee ‘not costlY’

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Far from Richard Hadlee being a heavy expense to the Canterbury Cricket Association he had been good value considering that tie was employed as much as a player as as a coach, said the chairman of the association’s management committee (Mr L. J. Knowles) after a meeting of the committee on Tuesday. At the meeting, Mr A. G. : Duckmanton said that Hadlee had proved to be a “pretty dear | exercise” but Mr Knowles said the cost to the association was relatively slight. Hadlee’s emI ployer. Freightways Road Services, bearing most of the expenses. “A month ago the coaching > committee was worried that we were over-working him,” said Mr Knowles, “and at that time we ; certainly had scheduled a num- \ ber of visits to primary schools. But that was when the cricket council was making up its mind i on whether Hadlee would be

[ released for the World Serial ■ Cricket matches in the Ncrtii 1 Island and the visits to primary t schools were tentative only* ‘ They knew they could be can* s celled. ? ’However, he has been to at . least 20 schools and J from several have been quite .glowing in their praises of hit work. ; “As well he has run secondary ; school clinics, visited the Ash* J burton and South Canterbury 1 minor associations, and North * Canterbury today, and as well as his own Shell series practice he has attended the Rothmans prac< - tices and will be attending the Brabin squad as well. J “The main point of our j ployment of Hadlee is that he r is one of New Zealand's leading 3 players, if not its best player. - He was being actively sought by . three other associations and we t could not let him slip through 1 our fingers, not least because s we need him as a player.”