Ponsford Retiring From First-class Cricket
HAD HIS FILL OF TESTS AND TOURS.
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 12.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 21.
In announcing his retirement from first-class cricket, Ponsford said: "After 15 years I have had my fill of Test matches. Tours and other first-class matches impose a strain on players not realised by those who watch. I no longer possess the vim and keenness so necess&ry. Another factor is that I do not wish to linger on the stage and be pushed off by lack of form.”
Asked to reconsider the matter, Ponsford said: "My mind is made up and nothing will induce me to change.”
Marylebone Representatives TEAM FOR INDIAN TOUR. LONDON, November 20. ’The Marylebone Representatives going to India on December 15th, are: Wyatt (Captain), Holmes (Surrey), Townsend (Oxford), Fames, Harbord, Hendren, Hammond, Lcyland, Ames, J. Smith (Middlesex), Paine, Iddou, Farrimond (Lancashire), Hollies (Warwickshire), with Captain G. W. Levicks, honorary manager.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 274, 22 November 1934, Page 7
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