CARE-FREE PLAYERS
New Zealand Cricket Team PROSPECTS. IN ENGLAND (Rec. April 30, 7.30 p.m.) London, April 30. That they will play a carefree kind of cricket and enjoy the game for the gamp’s sake, not worrying about statistical results, is one of the groundof the “Morning Post’s” welcome to the New Zealand cricketers. It adds: “We shall try to forget our psychological perplexities associated with the contests for the Ashes, and find an intellectual tonic in the doings of young players. “They need not regard tlie Test as an absolutely forlorn hope, remembering the victory of West Indies in tlie last encounter with the triumifliaut Australian eleven. “The Tinies” says there would have been little wonder had the »New Zealand tour been abandoned in the face of preoccupations at home following the earthquake calamity. The team come at considerable sacrifice, for which it would be assured all the heartier welcome if such were possible. The New Zealand cricket team is in the New Zealand Shipping Co.’s Rangitata, which is due to arrive at Southampton this morning.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 182, 1 May 1931, Page 9
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