TEST CRICKET TEAM

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 385, 17 March 1937, Page 5

TEST CRICKET TEAM

M.C.C. ARRIVES. RECENT MATCHES. Captain and Manager Reticent. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, March 17. G. O. B. Allen, captain of the M.C.C. team which arrived from Australia to-day by the Wanganella to play a series of matches in the Dominion, is convinced that he will never again visit Australia as a member of an English team in search of the Ashes. Asked what was the significance of the remark, he was reported to have made, that the final Test would be his last on a Melbourne cricket ground, he replied that it was quite obvious he would never come to Australia again. “It is quite apparent that I could not stand another tour, and probably I am not good enough,” he said. Both Allen and the manager, Captain Howard, were very reticent about the Test matches and cricket generally as between Australia and England, the former remarking that the team was looking forward to some “nice, pleasant cricket, free, from anxiety.” Neither would express an opinion regarding the question of playing Tests to a finish. Captain Howard said that the Australian tour had been enjoyable, and splendid hospitality had been extended to the team. The team leaves to-night for Christchurch, for the first match of the New Zealand tour against a combined Otago-Canterbury team, commencing on Friday.