PROPOSED CRICKET TOUR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 5

PROPOSED CRICKET TOUR

AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS TEAM LED BY BRADMAN It is on the cards that a cricket team organised by D. G. Bradman, the famous Australian eleven player, may tour New Zealand as soon as the cricket programme in Australia has been completed. . , While in Wellington with Mailey s team recently, Bradman was concerned over the hitch which occurred in connection with his non-appearance in the exhibition match at the Basin Reserve, and then informed officers of the Wellington Cricket Association that he would like to bring a team of prominent Australian players to lour the Dominion at the end Of the present season. lie was certain that he would bo able to induce a strong team to make the tour. The New Zealand Cricket Council on Friday night decided that it' the Australian Board of Control approved of the tour the New Zealand council was prepared to sponsor it. The council Inis written to the Board of Control in Australia, and to the M. 0.0. team, asking whether they have any objection. ... The New South Wales players will lie free toward the end of February and the Victorian players about March ( Bradman’s team would ho able to spent a month in the Dominion. BRADMAN’S HEALTH WILL BE FIT FOR THE TEST

(Received November 29, 11 a.m.) v SYDNEY, Nov. 29. Bradman stated that lie is feeling much better, but he has not yet decided whether he will play to-day. He will-be fit for the test, however. Oldfield left his bed yesterday, and will be medically , examined to-day. AUSTRALIA’S TEST TEAM GENERALLY APPROVED SYDNEY, Nov. 24. There is general agreement among cricket authorities that the 13 me" chosen by tho selectors of Australia s Test team are the best available. It was agreed that Victor Richardson (S.A.) and Nagel (Vic.) merited selection, but there has been some comment on the omission of Oxenham (Queensland) and Fleetwood-Smith (Victoria).

Here are some of tho leading opinions :

AI. A. Noble: It is tho only team the selectors could have chosen. All the players have earned their place, although Oxenhani has done sufficient to warrant a trial. We want good allrounders. and Oxenhani is one. Nagel must have bowled well yesterday, 'but 1 have never seen him. He is an unknown quantity whose performance may lw just a Hash in tiie pun, while Given bam is known. It is a good team. EARNED THEIIt PLACE'S J. M. Gregory: It is. very hard tocomment, but I think the. selectors have chosen the best available team. Nagel’s performance yesterday was wonderful, and any man who can get eight wickets on an easy pitch must he good. Richardson’s performances have earned him his place. C. T. B. Turner ; I cannot see Wall gaining inclusion, as he has not played much cricket this season, and is more or less an unknown quantity. The final selection will probably hinge on the matches before the Test, and then we might get another player to shine as Nagel did yesterday. Ido not know o! any better players who could have been included, and, taken all round, the team appears to lie a good one. It. C. M. Boyce: It is pretty good, hut the difficulty wi.'l he in getting it down to 11. I think it would be a wise plan to keep the final selection as late, as possible, and have Ironmonger available in ease of a wet wicket. A WISE IDEA Dr. E. I’. Barbour: It is the best possible team at the present time, and the selectors were very wise in selecting 13 men from which to make their final choice. 1 agree with the selection of both Richardson and Nagel, the former being a magnificent field, as well as a fine hat, while Nagel’s selection was assured ‘after such a wonderful performance ou a good wiaket yesterday. I am sorry that Fleetwood-Smith is not in—although 1 1. do not say 1 would have selected him myself—but lam just sorry that- Ids lame, is missing, although, I realise that- he could not he chosen on performances, lie will come good, however.

Arthur Alaile.y: I find it. difficult to comment, on the possibilities of a team, until that team is finally chosen. The selectors, however, have 'been wise in this instance. They have rounded up all the likely players for the first Test match and have been guided either by the reputations or performances of each player. There is no doubt that the New South Wales England game will have an important hearing on the final selection. If O’Reilly fails, the selectors would he justified in choosing Nagel. If O’Reilly is successful, I think Wall will have to show a. Imrst of speed in the nets in order to be chosen. Then it is a question of who will make way for him. The same applies to the batsmen. If Fingleton is successful as an opening 'batsman, Richardson’s position will he endangered. There are seven or eight certainties, and one can put the remainder in the melting pot and see what the New South Wales match brings to the top. Australia is sure to \havc a strong side, whatever team is 'chosen. A good deal depends on oow the opening batsmen will faro against the Larwood “strafing” tactics. if die opening partnership is successful, I think the English bowlers are in for a had time. If, on the other hand, the fast howling battery penetrates into < nr second-, or third wicket, I am afraid Australia will have io be satisfied with a moderate score, as wo have, a rather weak tail end. The prospects are fairly even, as far as ono can 'judge.

A. H. GILLIGAN’S ENGAGEMENT LONDON, Nov. 19. The engagement is announced of A. 11. Gillian n, the Sussex cricketer, who captained an English team on an Australian and .New Zealand tour in 1929, to Miss Marjorie White, of London.