BOLD BATSMEN WANTED
««#> fc’OJLl N.Z. TEAM FOR ENGLAND. SUGGESTED ANOINTMENTS AS CARTA.IN. AUSTRALIAN ixEEKT’S ADVICE. (Special to tlie Times.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. “Great interest is being evinced in the .Not Zealand cricket team’s tour of Eng 1 and next summer,” says Mr ,1. (j. ‘ Davis, editor of the . Sydney Referee, who has returned from England by the Niagara. ’ Personally,'' he said, “I think that they will do well and if the team is properly selected the results should go a long way towards putting New Ze.aiand on the international cricket plane. Rut take the lesson of the recent Australian tour to. heart. What New Zealand will want is batsmen who will not be afraid to step out and give the ball the full force of the bat, men who will punch anything that is loose along the turf. New Zealand should also send two of the best slow spin bowlers that she lias, and''all the bowling must he hacked up with good iielding specialists, who can gather chances in the slips or in the outfield. The New Zealand captain should be a matured player, with knowledge of English conditions. Names that come to my mind are D. V. Collins or T. H. Dowry. Send a team of young, men with all their cricket before them, and if the batsmen play with the enterprise that they should, there will ho no doubt, about the tour being a financial success”.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10494, 13 October 1926, Page 7
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