M.C.C. TEAM FOR N.Z.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 492, 29 June 1932, Page 11

M.C.C. TEAM FOR N.Z.

Tour of Australia Will be Extended. MATCH IN CHRISTCHURCH. The English team which i* to tour Australia next season will return by way of New Zealand and play three matches in this country, so tnat the cricket-loving public of the Dominion will see an English test side In action for the first time in over forty years The negotiations between the Marylebone Cricket Club (which controls the game in England), the Australian Board of Control, and the New Zealand Cricket Council for the extension of the tour have been in train for a long time, and the Dominion authorities have been reticent as to their progress ; but at its meeting last night the Cricket Council’s Management Committee was able to announce that definite word had been received from Jti* Arthur Sims, the council’s English representative, that the negotiations had been successful. The Englishmen will leave Australia on March IS, 1933, and arrive in Auck land on March 20, leaving for England on April 5. The proposed itinerary allows for three matches, at Auckfand Wellington, and Christchurch, and it is probable that two out of the three will be test matches against New Zealand Mr Sims advised that the team would leave Sydney on March IS, and leave Auckland on April 5. Thus the team would arrive back in England exceptionally late for the opening of the season. It would be appreciated that county cricket came first in England, and all previous teams had returned a week or ten days before the opening matches. The financial agreement is. briefly, that the New Zealand Cricket Council guarantees that the M.C.C. shall not , lose by the extension of the tour, and that if there is any profit, it shall be divided equally between the M.C.C. and ! the New Zealand Council.