HAPPY CRICKET TOUR
SIR JULIEN CAHN'S VIEWS OUTSTANDING BATSMEN WEIR AND KERR (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this 'day. "The cricketing experience in the Dominion has been a happy one," said Sir Julien Cahn, before sailing in the Niagara. The team had found good wickets everywhere though many oi the outfields, including that at Auckland, were 'below standard due to the fact that football was played on them in winter. The finest green was in Dunedin, and the best wicket at Eden Park. Sir Julien said he considered Kerr and Weir were the finest batsmen the side had played against. While there were useful bowlers, no one was outstanding. Sir Julien said he did not see the test match, but he formed the opinion from other games that the fielding was not up to the standard usual in Ne w Zealand first grade players. The general imm'ession was that the standard of play throughout New Zealand was equal to that when his team last met a New Zealand side in England in 1937. He added that the standard of schoolboy cricket showed promise for the future of % the game. He was looking forward to the next visit of a New Zealand team to England.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 7
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203HAPPY CRICKET TOUR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 7
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