CRICKET.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 16 August 1927, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE MATCH IN SYDNSYPOSSIBLE AUSTRALIAN VISIT. Wellington, Aug. 15. Mr. D. Reese, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, affirms the statement that the New Zealand team will play a match in Sydney, beginning on October 28, on the way back to the Dominion. The Council would have liked to arrange games in Adelaide and Melbourne, but it was too early in the season and would take up too much time. New South Wales offered 90 per cent, of the net gate. Mr. Reese found the Australian authorities almost unanimous that all negotiations for visits in future should be with the board of control and not with individual States. There will be brought before the New Zealand Council the discussed question of a visit from an Australian eleven next season, as there would be no chance the following summer while the English team is in Australia, and he is able to say the board of control will send a side over in February and March next, as a sort of try out. The members will be a prospective test XI men, such as Kippax and ffackson. He found quite a keen interest was taken in the doings of the New Zealand team, who were' considered to have performed so well that the Australians were keen to see them in action in Sydney.