CRICKET.
THE NEXT AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.
The New South Wales Cricket Association lias received tlie following letter from the secretury of the Marylebone Cricket Club: ' "I have been instructed by the committee of the M.C.C. to inform you that at a meeting on July 4th a hope was expressed that Australia would send a team to England m 1)905, and to assure you that it- would, hi that event, receive a welcome m this country: .. . "I beg also to append a copy of a resolution passed by the advisory county cricket committee on. June 28th: the number of test matches be '/ five. . . . . . .. '."That the first four test matches be three-day matches. '"That m the > event of the result of the first, four matches being a tie, the fifth match be played to a finish."' : On this, the executive committee recommended—and the recorinnendation was adopted without ' discuss3dn~^"-That ibis association endorses the wish of the v SI.CC, and would suggest that a selector from each State should be appointed to select the next Australian eleven."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 2
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172CRICKET. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 2
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