TEST MATCH WICKETS
COVERING AGAINST RAIN MARYLEBONE TO CONSIDER MELBOURNE, .Tan. 15 The president of the Marvlebone Cricket Club, Lord Somers, who formerly was Governor of Victoria, in discussing the agitation in favour of covering the test match wickets for protection against rain, said the Marylebone Club probably would give the matter serious consideration, although it was not a new problem. In test cricket, particularly in Australia, the public was such a big factor that it could not be disregarded. Ideal cricket, as they knew it in England, was played on the village green, irrespective of the elements.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 11
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