ENGLISH CRICKET TOURISTS
‘"THE best English cricket team that has ever come to New 1 Zealand”—that is the confident prediction of Mr. A. T. Donnelly, chairman of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Cricket Association, apropos of the English team which will reach the Dominion next December. That is the best news that cricket enthusiasts in New Zealand have heard for some time.
Past English cricket teams in New Zealand have included a goodly leaven of promising young amateurs who play the- fdashing style of cricket which the public likes. If the team which A. E. R. Gilligan is expected to lead through the Dominion next season does that, it will be assured of a warm welcome. . _ New Zealand, of course, has not reached the stage at which' it can compete with England or Australia on equal terms. But its players created a fine impression in England a couple of years ago. Now the visit is to be returned. Gilligan, Woolley and Duleepsinhji—these are great names in English cricket and. a guarantee that something in the nature of a cricket treat is in store for the Dominion.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6943, 24 June 1929, Page 4
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188ENGLISH CRICKET TOURISTS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6943, 24 June 1929, Page 4
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