Rivalry renewed
NZPA London New Zealand and Australia will renew their intense cricket rivalry in two World Cup warm-up games in England early in June. A week before the World Cup gets under way. the two countries will meet in a three-day •'friendly” in the tranquil setting of Arundel Castle, starting on June 4. And England's Test and County Cricket Board, which is organising warm-up games for the eight competing nations, has also paired New Zealand with Australia in a limited-over fixture at the Oval on June 7. The two countries are not
in the same World Cup group — New Zealand has drawn England. Sri Lanka and Pakistan — but could meet in the semi-finals or final depending on their placings. While most nations requested one-day or two-dav warm-up games, the Australians specifically asked the Test and County Board to arrange three-day fixtures. Another has been arranged for them, starting on June 1 against an English county which fails to quality for the Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-finals. The choice of Arundel, normally a scene for festival games, as the venue for the three-day match between New Zealand and Australia
has not been welcomed by the English county, Sussex. It starts a county championship game against Worcestershire on its home ground at Hove, just 34km from Arundel, on June 4 and fears it may lose spectators to the New Zealand-Australia clash. Sussex is considering complaining to the Test and County Board but a county official said he did not believe any protest would eventuate. . “We may lose a few people but fortunately we do not have a John Player league game on the Sunday which would clash with the New Zealand-Australia game," he said.
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