DISTRICT CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 7

DISTRICT CRICKET

Club System to be Retained WELLINGTON DECISION Cricket in Wellington next year will 5 ; be continued under the club system. The management committee of the Wellington Cricket Association, at a meeting this week, went into the ques- ? tion of a district scheme, and decided that the existing order should continue for the present The committee was unanimous on the following- points:— 1. While the committee recognised and welcomed the fact that there was a natural tendency toward district cricket in Wellington insomuch as more district clubs with their own grounds were now in existence than formerly was the position, yet the committee felt that the change to district cricket, if it should ever come, should come in a natural and unforced way, and it did not therefore at present propose to recommend that there should be any change to district cricket from the present system. 2. While the committee recognised that it might be in the interests of cricket to reduce the number of senior teams to six, yet the committee could not see that the advantages of cutting out two of the existing senior teams so as to reduce the present number from eight to six would outweigh the disadvantages that would plainly accrue from such a change. The committee, therefore, on this point’ also had no recommendation to make for the consideration of the next annual meeting of delegates. The supporters of a district scheme will probably brine the question prominently before the annual meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association. i