DOMINION CRICKET.
FIELDTNG XOT UP TO STANDARD,
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AUCKLAND. March 21. “Our cricketing experience in the Dominion has been a happy one.” said Sir ,7nlion Calm before sailing to-dav for England. “The team found good wickets everywhere, though many of the ouifields, including Auckland's, are below standard, duo to the fact that football is played on them in winter. The finest green was in Dunedin and the best wicket at Eden Park. The team consider Kerr and A\eir the finest batsmen the side played against. While there are useful bowlers, no one was outstanding.” Sir .1 alien said he did not see the Test match, hut lie had formed -the opin on from the other games that the fielding was not up to the standard of usual New Zealand first-grade players. The general impression was that the standard of play throughout New Zealand was equal to that, when his team 'just met a New Zealand side in England in 1937. He added that the standard of sehonllKiv cricket showed promise for the future of the game, and he was looking forward to the next visit of a New Zealand team to England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 8
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194DOMINION CRICKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 8
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