BIG CRICKET MATCH
MORE RAIN—NO PLAY
A dull,, wet morning and a rainsoaked ground piii/an end to any prospect of the cricket match,: Sir Julien Cahn's team v.'. New Zealand, being commenced before lunch today, and the outlook for the afternoon was not very promising from a cricketing viewpoint. However^ all hope of making a start some time today was not abandoned. < ; ■"....' ' An inspection of the wicket at the Basin Reserve was made at about 11.30 a.m., and the captains decided that they would inspect the wicket again at 2 p.m., there being no chance of play in the .meantime. By midday the weather had improved a little. The loss,of a full day'Ji play and the hold-up' today because of heavy rain pvernight and this morning combined to deal cricket a severe blow at a time when interest had been stirred to a high pitch and for an occasion which promised to be one of the most notable of its kind in the history of cricket in the Dominion. The captains inspected the wicket again at 2:15 p.m. and decided that there would be no play today. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1939, Page 11
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187BIG CRICKET MATCH Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1939, Page 11
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