M.C.C. Cricket Team On the Way to India

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7

M.C.C. Cricket Team On the Way to India

THREE TEST MATCHES TO BE PLAYED (British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 22. Tho Marylobone Cricket Club team is on the way to Bombay by the Mooltan. Test matches, each lasting four days, will be played at Bombay in the middle of December, at Calcutta at the beginning of January and at Madras in tho middle of February.

Next Australian Team for England SELECTION IN FEBRUARY NEXT Received Monday, 12.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 24. Tho Australian cricketers for England will be selected in Melbourne on February 2 next. Australian Team to Visit New Zealand NEXT FEBRUARY AND MARCH SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The Cricket Board of Control has accepted the New Zealand invitation for an Australian team to visit tho Dominion in February and March, subject to the conditions of the invitation being satisfactory.

Jardine’s M.C.C. Eleven ORDER AGAINST LEG THEORY LONDON, Sept.. 22. The M.C.C. team has sailed for India, under the captaincy of D. E. Jardine, who was instructed by the M.C.C. not to use leg theory in India. Completely recovered from his leg injury, Jardine, who received cheers as he greeted members of the team entraining at St. Panovas, told an interviewer: “We leave as a united party.”

The team is as follow's: —Jardine (captain), Valentine, Walters, Lovett, Marriott, J. H. Human, James Langridge, Nichols, Verity, Townsend, Bakewell, Clark, Gregory, Barnett, Mitchell (Yorkshire), and I-I. Elliott (Derbyshire).