Sunshine welcomes N.Z. XI
NZPA Staff Correspondent, KEVIN HART London Scorching temperatures and high humidity, the first glimpses of an English summer, greeted the New Zealand cricket team when it began preparations for its threetest tour of England here yesterday. The side had a solid
work-out in the nets at Lord's to shake out travel weariness after a flight involving a 24-hour stopover in Los Angeles. The New Zealanders arrived in London three days ahead of the original schedule because of the late cancellation of a match against a Commonwealth League side in New York. That meant that only the eight of the IS-man
touring party who flew from New. Zealand practised yesterday. The rest of the party — John Wright, Ken Rutherford, Tony Blain, Martin Crowe and the pacemen, Derek Stirling, Brian Barrett and Willie Watson — were due to join the side today. All have been playing in England, along with Richard Hadlee, who is available only for the
test and two one-day internationals because of his benefit year commitments with Nottinghamshire. The New Zealanders will, in fact, first be in action in a benefit match for Hadlee at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, on Friday. The tour officially begins with a one-day match against the Duchess of Norfolk’s XI at Arundel on Sunday.
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