TEAM TO TOUR ENGLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 10

TEAM TO TOUR ENGLAND.

1 FOURTEEN MEN SELECTED. ONE OTAGO REPRESENTATIVE. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 26. The New Zealand cricket team, to leave in March on a tour of England, has been announced as follows by the New Zealand selectors, Messrs N. C. Snedden (Auckland), W. S. Brice (Wellington), H. V. Whitta (Canterbury), and F. Williams (Otago). C. F. W. ALLCOTT (Auckland). J. E. MILLS (Auckland). G. L. WEIR (Auckland). H. G. VIVIAN (Auckland). A. M. MATHESON (Auckland). T. C. LOWRY (Wellington). C. S. DEMPSTER (Wellington). K. C. JAMES (Wellington). , M. L. PAGE (Canterbury). W. E. MERRITT (Canterbury) .\ J. L. KERR (Canterbury). ) I. B. CROMB (Canterbury). R. 0. TALBOT (Canterbury). R. C. BLUNT (Otago). Surprise may be expressed in some quarters at the exclusion of E. D. 'Blundell (Wellington), the Cambridge “ blue, 55 but evidently his performances in Plunket Shield cricket this season have not impressed the selectors. J. Newman (Wellington) was another bowler who had claims for inclusion after the Otago jnatch, but against both Canterbury and Auckland he was not dangerous. Matheson 5 s performances against Wellington gained him preference over D. Cleverley.' The captain, yiee-captain, and manager will be appointed at a meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council probably later this week. It is anticipated that Lowry wall be captain and Page vicecaptain.