CRICKET COMPETITIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 12

CRICKET COMPETITIONS

PLUNKET SHIELD RULES FIFTH TEAM NOT ADMITTED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this' day. "At the annual meeting of delegates the management committee wis asked to explore the possibility of admitting a fifth team to the Plunket Shield competition," said Mr. D. E. Wanklyn, the chairman at a meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council last night.

"The committee was unable to recommend that a fifth team should be admitted, but it has evolved a scheme under which a major team when travelling should play a minor association in the North Island, where the request originated. The reason, for this decision was partly the extreme difficulty in arranging a roster of matches, partly the difficulty of players in getting leave, and partly the committee's opinion that extending the scope of the competition would impose a further financial burden on the council or on the major associations."

The new scheme had been referred to all the major associations, he said.

Mr. Wanklyn also reported that a new arrangement had been Arrived at for the Hawke Cup competition. The competition had presented a difficulty for years, but a system had been arrived at under which challenges would work out more or less mechanically.