TEST CRICKET MATCHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9

TEST CRICKET MATCHES.

| QUESTION OF DURATION. A. and NX LONDON. Jan. 13. In his speech at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club Lord Hawfce, the president, and for many years captain of Yorkshire, referred to ■ the question of the length of the test matches. He said sis-das crtcket matches might be suitat'e in Australia owing to her I climate and because there were comparaj lively few first-class matches there, j " But," he said, " the strongest ob- | jection to the extension of the time j allotted to th test matches in England - h that o'h'f r mat-Che's are suLorn.£2.*.ted to | the test games This involves the danger | of turning the test matches into a fetish, j England, said Lord Hawfce. nnist } seriously, ask herself whether it was right j that vetera® play en should have been th# j chief factor .in her recent victory over ) .Australia In the last maicb. Eug- } land ought to encourage the young i players, I He expressed -fat* agreement with the proposed change to a smaller hall, and I suggested that a new ball m;ghl be used j alter each 100 runs scored, i Also he favoured natural grass wicket*, | but he urged that the county authorities I should be instructed m the use .of marl j for taakiag wicket*.