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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 11

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TEAMS TO VISIT N.Z. [PER PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, April 26 In the 1935-36 season an M.C.C. cricket team will tour New Zealand, and at the end of 1936-37 season, an M.C.C. test team will spend from two to three weeks in New Zealand, after its tour of Australia. Arrangements are almost completed for a visit duiing 1936-37 season of a team selected from India by the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, brother of Duleepsinghi. These announcements were made at the half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council to-night by Mr A. T. Donnelly, Chairman of the Management Committee. Mr Donnelly said that, although the Australian Board of Control had been very friendly during the past season it had not been possible to secure a tour of New Zealand by an Australian side. Arrangements had now been definitely concluded, however, for a visit to New Zealand in the 1935-36 season of an M.C.C. team. The Australian Board of Control had very generously agreed to give this M.C.C. team five matches in Australia on its way to New Zealand in the same way that it had done when Gilligan’s team visited New Zealand in 1929. The M.C.C. team would be of similar strength, he expected, to the team that Gilligan led. Its personnel would bo announced in the middle of the winter, and it was expected that the side would be most attractive. The Australian Board’ of Control had again agreed to give the New Zealand Council a percentage of the gates of the Australian matches, which would be against West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

It was also extremely gratifying, Mr Donnelly added, that the M.C.C. and the Australian Board of Control had agreed that the next test team to visit Australia in the 1936-37 season will come to New Zealand in March. To do this the Board of Control had agreed to close the Australian tour a week earlier than usual, and that would allow the Englishmen to be in New Zealand for two or three weeks. It was hoped that the team would be able to play in each of the four main centres in that time.

Mr Donnelly said that arrangements for the visit of a team selected from all India by the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar in the 1936-37 season had been practically confirmed, although it was hot absolutely definite yet. The team suggested would be most attractive, and would Include probably several prominent English players. Several members of the Council congratulated the Management Committee on the report presented by Mr Donnelly. It would provide the Dominion with a good measure of interest from overseas teams. The success of the negotiations was, in a largo measure, because of the fine work of Mr Donnelly and Mr Arthur

Sims (New Zealand representative in England). WYATT FIT. LONDON, April 25. Wyatt will be fit to captain Marylebone against Surrey on May 1. BRADjMAN’S HEALTH. ADELAIDE, April 26. Don Bradman has announced that ha will not be available for the South African cricket tour, as his health is not sufficiently satisfactory to undertake a strenuous tour. He hopes to be fit by the time the Englishmen arrive in Australia.