CRICKET AT HOME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16364, 11 June 1927, Page 6

CRICKET AT HOME

NEW ZEALAND'S OPPONENTS NO ROOM FOR COMPLAINT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCIIURCH, this day. "I think we can quite safely leave the team in the hands of Ihe English authorities," said Mr. D. Reese, chairman oi' the management committee of the New Zealand., Cricket Council, when asked if! ho eared to pass any comment on the telegraphed remarks of Mr. Brice, one of the selectors of the team, in reference to the absence of some of the prominent players from the county sides. "The Englishmen are only doing now what tire Australians have done to New Zealand over a long term of years," continued Mr. Reese. "I feel quite certain that the play of the New Zealahders to date litis in itself sufficiently demonstrated, at any rate to Sussex and Worcestershire, the mistake of leaving out their crack bowlers. There is plenty of cricket ahead of the present team to enable .them to force the leading counties to play something like their best sides. We mils! also remember the English comities' point of view. They all have -big seasons, and even counties like Yorkshire and Lancashire; and others, frequently rest their star bowlers against weaker counties. It would be savoring a little of presumption on New Zealand's part to mjike any definite request to the English counties on this matter.''