Centenary test at Lord’s
NZPA London English cricket authorities will invite every Australian cricketer who played in a test match in England to this year’s centenary test match at Lord's.
The Test and County Cricket Board (T.C.C.8.), which is organising the match to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the first test on English soil, has to some extent copied the ambitious and ultimately successful formula for the Melbourne centenary test nearly three years ago.
The invitations — helped by a sponsorship deal from Garuda, the national airline of Indonesia, which will provide free travel — will mean that old adversaries such as Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Leonard Hutton will again be able to relive past glories.
The invitation will also be extended to former English test players now living in Australia: Tony Lock, Frank Tyson, Harold Larwood, Peter Loader and Barry Knight. The T.C.C.B. marketing manager, Mr Peter Lush, said yesterday that the party of about 100 would arrive on August 21, seven days before the test starts, and depart on September 4, two days after it ends.
The Garuda sponsorship coincides with the opening of a weekly Sydney-London service via Indonesia in July. The Australian team will play nine matches on its ■month-long tour of England, (starting on August 6.
Centenary test at Lord’s
Press, 16 January 1980, Page 28
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