Tracy makes his debut

Press, 5 August 1983, Page 32

Tracy makes his debut

NZPA London Sean Tracy, aged 20, the Auckland fa’st bowler, is making his debut for New Zealand in the one-day game against Surrey today. Tracy joined the Kiwis from Gloucestershire, where he is on a cricket scholarship, and quickly learned he would be thrust "straight into action. He was included initially to provide an opportunity for some of the test bowlers to be rested, but he will be considered for test selection if he well. OF, Tracy, who first appeared for Auckland in the second part of last summer’s shell series and later went on the emerging players’ tour of Australia, impressed the New Zealanders when he took two for 55 against them for Gloucestershire. He bowled with considerable fire in that game and could easily have had another couple of wickets. “I’ve benefited from the coaching at Gloucestershire and from playing regularly for the second XI, and feel I’m bowling with far more consistency. “Now I want to listen and learn a lot more from the New Zealand team,” he said. The New Zealand captain, Geoff Howarth, is one of the top-string players who has been rested. He is recovering from a minor haemorrhoid operation performed at St Mary’s Hospital in London. It is his fourth such operation in eight years. “Naturally I would have loved to have played against my own county but I have been advised to rest for a couple of days,” Howarth said.