BIG CRICKET

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 August 1927, Page 4

BIG CRICKET

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND Tf, RESI LTS IN HEAVY (Per Press AssociationCHRISTCIU R( [] ’ It is now quite clear. to a cable which the \ t . w - ,'J Cricket Council has receive] Mr Hay, the manager u f th f v Zealand team, that J l( . p tour is going tn re-uh , loss. d h ” This has been emtsee ; ar ,.,.i the continuous we: weather ’ ing in so many mat. he, bandoned. Mr Huy's cable, which the financial retnri:-. ; i lt . date, was considered at a,, meeting of the I ouin-il laq tit* After discussing the matter j the Council decided that it « duty to make a linal effort to imise the loss as much as It is now proposed to play !lialf in Wellington and Christi-huni the team’s return between th v la ists and the rest of X e iv Zrak and to ask the Wellington q Council and the Lancaster (J of Control to forego their m charges for the use of the gnj tor these matches, so that th • turns will be a- substantial] possible. The decision to play matched Wellington and Christchurch sboi afford a splendid opportunitv of| eluding Bowley and Newman, well as Badcoek. in the team ph ing against the tourists. SENSATIONAL BOWLING. .' EVEN WICKETS FOR S RIT LONDON, Aug. | Kennedy, the Haiiip-hirc bnti who in a recent match took all | wickets, to-day achieved the notable feat of the season In ing seven wickets for eight runsi ten overs, of which seven were nil ens. He obtained the last six vj kets for four runs, with the re 4 that Warwickshire was dismug for 36, the lowest County scon i the season.