DOMINION CRICKETERS.
ENGLISH PAPER'S CRITICISM.
The New Zealanders aro our guests, and therefore it behoves one to treat them with courtesy and broad-mindedness, says an English exchange.
It is in their own interests, however, that one feels a duty to protest against (lie methods they adopted at Oxford in their match against the University—methods which led to slight barracking. On the last day of the match they wero set just over 300 runs to win, with 4-£ hours in which to get them. Hero was an opportunity to show the real sporting spirit. * But the New Zealanders merely "sat on the splice"' after the fashion of many county sidos, and gave as dreary an exhibition of cricket as is possible to conceive, even Lowry, by nature a forcing batsman, becoming imbued with the prevailing spirit.
Their attitudo was the more surprising in view of the fact that no one can classify the Oxford bowling this season as formidable and one would have thought that the result of such a match was the last thing that mattered. The New Zealanders are such a popular side that one hopes this warning wiU not fall, oo deaf ears.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 16
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195DOMINION CRICKETERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 16
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