THREE TESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 124, 21 November 1935, Page 9

THREE TESTS

N.Z. CRICKET TEAM TOUR OF ENGLAND (Received November 21, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The M.C.C.'s Board of Control has allotted three three-day Test matches to New Zealand in 1937 at Lords, Manchester, and the Oval. They as well as the Indians next year will be allotted four days for the filial Test if the rubber depends upon it. GENEROUS ACTION VICTORIAN CRICKETERS MELBOURNE, November 20. Receipts from the M.C.C. v. Victoria match totalled £607. Because bad weather affected the gate, the Victorian Cricket Association and the Melbourne Cricket Club will forgo their percentage of the charge and hand practically the whole profits to the New Zealand Cricket Council, \v!> hj is managing the tour, It is estimated that New Zealand will receive about £350.

TRIAL EXTENDED NEW LEG-BEFORE RULE LONDON, November 19. Declaring that the new leg-before rule experiment has been a great success in county cricket, the advisory committee has agreed to its continuance for another season. USE ON, INDIANS' TOUR (Received November 21, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The Indian cricket team which is to tour England in 1936 will be asked to agree to the observance of the legbefore rule. ! PROFITABLE TESTS S. AFRICA V. ENGLAND (Received November 21, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The profits of the ' Test cricket matches between England and South Africa amounted to £16,088, 'compared with £7546 during the 1929 tour. "EXPENSIVE PASTIME" MELBOURNE, November 20. The M.C.C. team's captain, E. R. T. Holmes, in an interview, said he expected to retire from the captaincy of Surrey after the next English season, adding, "Amateur cricket is an expensive pastime."