LEAGUE CRICKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 18

LEAGUE CRICKET

F. T. BADCOGK REVIEWS THE SEASON (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 14. F. T. Badcock, the Werheth professional cricketer, who is returning to New Zealand, writes in the Evening Chronicle of Manchester, on his impressions of the past season. , . . , “ This has been my first experience. ot this type of cricket —in which a decision is reached on one afternoons play, he Ga “ S jn New Zealand the various larger districts hold much the same competition, but the games are decided on two Saturday afternoons, and most teams manage to complete two innings each. “ I think I prefer the one afternoon s decision. The suspension of an innings when a side has reached a certain score has much to commend, and could, I think, be tried with advantage in New Zealand. At any rate, I intend to suggest its trial in Dunedin when I return there in October.

AN ALARMING REPORT. «After last season’s play, two New Zealanders returned home and spread what one can only call rather an alarming report on the Lancashire League activities. , ... “By most people these reports were received with a certain amount of reserve, but that they were believed by some there is no doubt. Playing as 1 have done in another league, I have not had first-hand knowledge, but there cannot be much difference between the C.L.L. and the Lancashire League, and it will be a very great pleasure to be able to refute'entirely the reports that have been I could not have had a happier season, and I am quite sure I would have to go a very long way before I found a better club than the one for which I have had the privilege of playing this season, and I sincerely hope I am to have that privilege for some years. When I say better, I do not confine myself to the playing aspect only, but in all respects.” After considering the merits and demerits of the play of his fellow-profes-sionals and the amateurs the writer adds “Altogether it: has been, from my personal point of view, a veryffiappy season, and I am looking one equally so on my return next year.