IN SOUTH AFRICA
MABYLEBONE TEAM’S VISIT. SUTCLIFFE SHY OF INTERVIEWERS. (A. & N.Z.) CAPE TOWN. Nov. 7. The Marylebone team has arrived and the members are all fit. Sutcliffe appeared to be the most shy member of the side. Pressed for an interview, he declared that he was very proud of his appointment as captain of Yorkshire. He pointed out that it was not quite correct to say that he was the first player captain. He believed there was one in the ’eighties, but that did not detract from the great honour conferred on him. Stevens, of Middlesex, said that the team had been specially selected for play on matting, including as it did only spin bowlers. * Captain Stanyforth was diffident of expressing an opinion on the probable result of the test matches, in view of the fact that eight members would play on matting for the first time, and that South African cricket appeared to be on the up-grade. The visitors’ first match is against Western provinces on Saturday.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19993, 9 November 1927, Page 4
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