Before the Australian cricketers left on the present tour the president of the Melbourne Cricket Club (Sir Leo. Oussen) said that Australia would look to its men standing “four square” to ail the best t.hrt England could produce. The touring team is composed of 1G men. This number is also connected in other ways with the tour, nr it is 48 years (three times 16) since the first team visited England, and the the firs' Test of this tour will be the 48th played in England.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19260604.2.133
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 10
Word Count
86Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 10
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in