ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20259, 20 May 1929, Page 11

ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

PROPOSED DOMINION TOUR. ARRANGEMENTS NOT DEFINITE. United Service. LONDON. May 17. The arrangements are progressing for the dispatch of a team by the Marylebone Cricket Club to New Zealand and berths have been booked tentatively on the Rangitiki via Panamai and alternatively by the Orient Line via Suez. There is still a possibility that the tour may fye abandoned. Earl Jellicoe says the arrangements are not yet concluded with the New Zealand Cricket Council and the matter is still indefinite. The cricket authorities are surprised at a suggestion from Australia that the team should begin its tour with a series of matches, in Australia. It is unlikely that the team will be of test match calibre. Defeats in Australia Would therefore be probable, which would prejudice the success of the subsequent New Zealand tour. If the Australian games are abandoned the team will probably sail on the Rangitiki. "

OPINION OF COUNCIL. , AUSTRALIAN GAMES FAVOURED/ [by telegraph.—press .association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. between the Marylebone Cricket' Club atici the New Zealand Cricket Council for the visit of a team to the Dominion in 1929-30 are proceeding. It is expected that something definite will be known shortly. Mr. W. H. Winsor, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, stated that the names of a number, of players had been suggested, and there was every promise! of a good side being available. The council was endeavouring to arrange for'the Englishmen to play a few matches in Australia before coming to the Dominion. ,