CRICKET TOURS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 22

CRICKET TOURS

TEAM FROM ENGLAND

AUSTRALIAN PLANS

The New Zealand Cricket Council has been again treated generously by the Australian Board of Control and the State associations in the extent to which they have agreed to support the tour next season by an M.C.C. team. At least five matches—one in each State—< are to be played by the team on its way to New Zealand, and 75 per cent, of the proceeds of these matches is to be given to the New Zealand Cricket Council. No doubt, some progress is being made regarding the personnel of the team, and it should not be long before something is heard of the players likely to come on the tour. Dealing with the tour, an'Australian writer (A. G. Moyes) states that, although the team will not be of the same calibre as a Test side, it should be sufficiently strong to intensify the interest in Australia's season. It is probable that some of the professionals who were in Australia with Jardine's team will make "the trip. A suggestion has been made that the board should seize the opportunity to give Australia's youngsters some added experience by staging a match between the tourists and an Australian side ied by Bradman. Such a game, played either in Melbourne or Sydney, would prove a really good draw-card. It is on the cards that New Zealand would agree to this, and it would be worth while negotiating to that end. As the team for South Africa was certainly not chosen with a view to the future (the writer adds), any chance of remedying the omission should not be lost.