BIG CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 5

BIG CRICKET

M.C.C. TEAM IN N.Z. NEXT .SEASON ENGLISH TEST PLAYERS COAIING FOLLOWING YEAR, ALSO PROBABLY AN INDIAN "■ •' . TEAAI (Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, April 26. In the 1936-36 season, an AI.C.C. cricket team will t-our' New Zealand and at- the end of the 1936-37 season the AI.C.C. test team ■ will spend from two to .three weeks in New Zealand after its tour of Australia. The arrangements are almost completed for a visit, during the 193637 season, of a team selected from India by ,the Jam Sahib of Nawa-nri-gar, a brother of Duleepsingbi. 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. Air. Donnelly said that, although the Australian Board of Control had been very friendly during the past season it had not been possible to secure ai tour of New Zealand by an Australian -side. Arrangements had now been definitely concluded, however, tfor a visit to New Zealand in the 1935-36 sear-on by an Af.C• C. -tea.m. The Australian Board -or Control had very generously agreed to give this AI.C.C. team five matches in Australia, -on its way to Jslew Zealand, in the way that it had done when Gillignn’s team visited New Zealand in 1929. The AI.C.C. team would be of similar strength, lie expected, to the team that Gilligan led. Its personnel would be announced in the middle -of winter an-I it wa-s expected that the side would ba. a m-ost attractive one.. The Australian Board of Control had again agreed to give the New Zealand Council a percentage ojf the gates at the Australian matches, . which would be against West Australia-, South Australia, Victoria, .New South Wales, and Queensland. It was extremely -gratifying, Air Donnelly added, that AI.C.C. and the Australian Beard of Control had agreed that the next tout team to visit Australia in the 1936-37 season will come to New Zealand in Alarcli. 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 eac-li of the four main centres in that time. Air Donnelly said that arrangements for the visit of a team selecte\l from all India by the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar in the 1936-37 season had been practically confirmed, although it Avars not absolutely definite yet. The team suggested would be a most attractive one and would include probably several prominent English players. Several members of the Council congratulated the management committee cn the report presented by Mr Donnelly. It would provide the Dominion with a go-od measure of interest from overseas teams. Tim success of the negotiations was, in large measure, because of the fine work of Air Donnelly and Air Arthur Sims, the New Zeaknd representative in England.