CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 March 1926, Page 3

CRICKET.

A CANCELLED FIXTURE. COMPLAINT FROM TARANAKI. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. March. 29. A Christinas cricket fixture which was cancelled, involving a provincial association in considerable expense and also causing the cancellation of another fixture, was the subject of oor,resplendence before the Wellington Cricket Association to-night. Taranaki complained that after a proposed match with the Wellington. Nomads had been definitely arranged, a Christmas and Boxing Day match against Auckland, to be played at Auckland, was put off, in order tx> keep faith with the - arrangements made with the Nomads. It was-hoped, stated the letter from Taranaki, that disciplinary action would be taken, and that the Nomads would be requested to reimburse Taranaki for the expenses incurred. It was explained at the meeting that the Wellington Nomads were not an affiliated body., and should not be confused with the Nomads who had done a tremendous amount of good for cricket in New Zealand. The chairman said that the matter would he looked into, and some explanation would lie sought from those resoonsible for arranging the match and then crying it off.

IMPROVING STANDARD OF PLAY

WELLINGTON. March 29

Regarding the- Auckland Cricket Association’s. suggestions with reference to tlio engagement of pkiyer-coaches, the Wellington Cricket _ Association decided “that this association is of the opinion that our policy of bringing out nrofessionals as permanent residents of the Dominion is in the best interests of New Zealand cricket.”

PROSPECTS OF COMING TOUR, v

HOBBS EXPRESSES HIS OPINION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 28. Hobbs, iu a lengthy criticism in the newspaper Despatch on the members of the Australian team and the prospects of the tour, says: “England is strong where Australia is weak—viz., in the quality of her medium-paced bowlers, which* after all, is generally the backbone of the team’s bowling. We are as good cricketers, man for man, in England as in Australia; only the determination to win is required to prove it.” He does not complaint that Australian players in newspaper articles are permeated with confidence to retain .'j the ashes, but regrets that English writers are manifesting a spirit of carp- ,-| iiig criticism. The visitors certainly are a formidable side, but are no supercricketers, as some people want to make but. His considered opinion is that English cricket at the present time is equal to Australian. —Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn.