CRICKET
NEW ZEALAND’S ENGLISH TOUR.
“A GLORIOUSi OPPORTUNITY.”
CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Mr W. Patrick, who captained the New Zealand cricket team in Australia last season, declares that the English tour should be a success..,, “We have some wonderful young j colts here,” he‘said, “if only they w*fc,3i given the opportunity of playing,ini a; number of matches, such as will be the] case in England. Take, for instah Oliver, Dempster, Banks, Gillespie, 1 Mills, McLeod, Crawford, Talbot, Cox, Cunningham, Cherry, Knight, Douglas, Hope and Gallichan. “The coming tour,,” he added, “will be a glorious opportunity of trying New Zealand cricket out. Care will have to be taken to see that the right young players are sent away.” WELLINGTON, Friday. Regarding the proposed visit of the New Zealand cricket team to England, McGirr, the Welington bowler, thinks it should be a chance for young play- ' ers. It should not be a consideration that a man has played good cricket for 20 or 25 years. What is wanted is g young, or comparatively young, men, " with ten or twelve years of cricket left in them.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 4
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