CRICKET
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1989.
Restoring Balance Between
Bat And
Ball
Counties To Take Action Against Over Prepared Wickets
MPERIA
The "Flying cricket team" including R.ES. Wyatt, F. R. Brown, D. F. Walker, R. D. de W. K. Winlaw, T. N. Pearce, A. G. Powell, C. H. Taylor, A. W. Childs-Clarke and A. P. Singleton, photograph- ed at Croydon prior to leaying for a month's tour of Egypt. Copyright).
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PROPOSAL BY M.C.O. TO BE ACCEPTED
London, March 29.
A move is to be made at last to even-up the balance between bat and ball in first-class cricket matches by dealing with the problem of the over- prepared wicket.
The Advisory County Cricket Committee yes- terday at Lord's accepted a proposal by the M.C.C. that the question of the preparation of wickets was one which required the attention of the counties. They accordingly agreed to the suggestion of the M.C.C. made in the following terms:-
Before each season all counties; able use is to be made of the services will instruct their groundmen of the cricketer for whoin such special registration is required, must' also wicket that the ideal
is one be given." which makes the conditions equal The new rules provide that a as between batsmen and bowlers cricketer will be eligible to play for a county as soon as, but not until, the without being dangerous.
Under no circumstances should special registration has been approved.
The
special committee who for- wickets be prepared so as to fav-mulated the scheme stress that players our the batsman unduly.
at honte should be protected against Counties will give instructions any accelerated qualification of players
coming from overseas, A that all wickets will be prepared
with this object in view.
Other People's Views
The variety halls have had their in no way affects their Rugby. fight against broadcasting. Now the Daily Record writer. Boxing Board and those connected with ..
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The new scheme requires the ap proval of the M.C.C. Committee, but & for- this is regarded merely as
boxing have to study how to deal with The Wolves are in the very happy County Committees will accept television. I say that used wisely it position of being able to call upon an the responsibility for any criti-mality. can help rather than hurt boxing-apparently never-ending supply of cism of wickets, and will, inform youngsters to fill first-team vacancies, their groundmen and the players
Norman Hurst.
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The greatest asset to a Rugby team nowadays 18 an expert goal-kicker, which seems sad commentary on more than 100 years of Rugby Union football "progress A Sporting Chronicle writer.
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Heaps of players go through their Rugby careers, and even into interna- tionals, and have never read a rule in their lives. Their blissful ignorance
But for this wealth of talent in re- serve I would say the Wolves will find their quest of the double as impossible of accomplishment as Arsenal and Hud- dersfield did. in their great years.- Frank Coles.
Guldahl has declared he is coming over to get that guy Cotton. When
Guldahl arrives Henry is ready to get down to brass tacks as much brass as the American likes to put down.---- A writer in the Star.
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of this.
This move, which will extend to all wickets used in. first-class cricket, in- cluding those for Test matches, met with genuine and general agreement among those present at the meeting, over which Lard Baldwin presided. Registration of County
Players
A scheme for the registration of County cricketers, aiming at ensuring the more rapid qualification of certain categories of cricketers, will be in force during the coming season. This was another decision reached by the Advisory Committee yesterday.
When certain formalities have been complied with, a cricketer may go straight from one county to another. in- Adequate safeguards have been troduced against the poaching of play- ers in this new registration scheme, which has been embodied within the framework of the existing rules of County cricket..
The M.C.C. Committee, or a special sub-committee which they may appoint for the purpose, will act as a tribunal
R.W. SHAW'S FUTURE
Reports circulated to the effect that R. W. Shaw (Glasgow High School F.P.), who has captained the Scottish Rugby team for the past two years, has decided to re tire, are premature.
Shaw is to be married later in the year, but he has not as yet considered his plans for next sea- son's Rugby.
RUGBY
French Invite
empowered to register cricketers of the To Schools
following categories:-
(1) A cricketer not required by- a county (or counties) for which he is qualified.
London, March 29.
(2) A recognised English amateur Rosslyn Park R.F.C., who ap- returning from overseas, either, for plied for permission to accept an temporary or permanent residence; invitation by the Universite Club (3) A cricketer having special family de Paris to send a Rosslyn Park associations with a county for which
he requires to be registered, such as a Public Schools side to play a Paris cricketer whose father has played re-public schools team in Paris dur- gularly for a county for not less thaming the Easter holidays, have five years, and a cricketer whose well-
established family home is in a part been informed that the Home cular county;
Unions consider such a match in-
- (4) A cricketer who has no quali-advisable, pending a settlement fication for any county, excluding one of the negotiations between the whose permanent home is, or has been
at any time during twenty four Home Unions and the Frach months, outside the United Kingdom. Federation on the subject of the The whole report was accepted, ex-resumption of matches between copt for a clause of special importance France and the Home' Countries. to the minor counties, who are to have an opportunity of considering this rule before it is operated. ______\Important Proviso
An important proviso in this new ristration scheme is that the count
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H. J. Calvet, secretary of the Univer site Club de Paris
It is now learned that M. Pierre Ohl, the representative of the Offon de. Sport Scolaire et Universitaire, gogarn- neh.: University in and written to the Bigby
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