NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S CRICKET TEAM

Southland Times, Issue 23407, 14 January 1938, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S CRICKET TEAM

To the Editor Sir, —In reply to my letter of January 6 about the selector’s reason for including Miss Hollis for the New Zealand team, Mr Patrick says Miss Hollis was the mainstay of the New Zealand team which played the English women two years ago. So she has been chosen on that day’s play. If I remember rightly, about that time I saw in the Press that Miss Marks, of Canterbury, was New Zealand’s best batswoman and she, too, played well in that match, but was not included in this team. Also I. Dickson, who captained the Southland team, played'well and was the means of dismissing three of the four outgoing English batswomen. Mr Patrick contradicts himself in his reply when he chooses one player on her form two years ago and others on their form in the trials. I wonder how he. would have felt when he was in the running for representative honours if someone had been chosen in place of him on his performance two years before. His explanation would be really funny if it was not so ridiculous.—Yours, etc., CANTERBURY SUPPORTER. January 12, 1938.