STRENUOUS TOUR.

Wairarapa Age, 7 September 1937, Page 5

STRENUOUS TOUR.

NEW ZEALAND’S CRICKET TEAM.

SOME EXCELLENT AGGREGATES BATTING AND BOWLING PERFORMANCES. (Received This Day, 0.15 a.m.) GAINSBOROUGH, September 6. The Minor Counties 3 match is another illustration of the severity of the New Zealanders’ itinerary. Although the Folkestone game was stopped two hours early to enable the players to catch a train, Gainsborough was not reached till after midnight. Considering the team’s inevitable tiredness, no praise is too high for Saturday’s, accurate and inexpensive bowling of Roberts and Gallichan.

Tindill, with his wife, is visiting Paris and goes to Australia on • the Orion. The main body is following a fortnight later on the Orontes. Dunning is unable to visit Australia and is returning via the Panama on the Rangitiki. Wallace is now past Blunt’s first-class aggregate in 1927 and requires 235 to break Dempster’s record in 1931. Cowie needs two wickets to pass Merritt’s record of 107 in firstclass matches in 1927. Dunning has bowled a record number of overs for a New Zealander ’in first-class matches with England and is well ahead of Merritt’s total in 1927. Strain, however, is now telling and he is not bowling with the same venom as earlier in the tour. Roberts, on the other hand, is in top form and is bowling as well as ever. He has been christened “the tireless” by “The Times.” Vivian’s leg is again troublesome and he is receiving treatment in London. The Scarborough match on Wednesday promises to be heavy work. The opposing team is almost a full strength England side, chosen from Wyatt, Sellars, Maxwell, Brown, Hutton, Barnett, Hardstaff, Hammond, Paynter, Gimblett, Nelgard, Nicholls, Gover and Worthington. The weather is fine and the wicket in good order for the resumption of the Minor Counties match.