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Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1927–28

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The Australia national cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1928 and played six first-class matches including two against the New Zealand national cricket team. This was before New Zealand began playing Test cricket.[1]

Team

Don Bradman, Percy Hornibrook and John Scaife were selected as emergencies, but did not take part in the tour.[2]

It was a strong team. The Cricketer said that "the majority of the cricketers may be expected to represent the Commonwealth [of Australia] in the Test matches against England a few months hence. J. M. Gregory, in fact, was the only likely man who did not make the trip."[3]

References

  1. ^ "Australia in New Zealand 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  2. ^ Charlie Kelleway, "Introducing Ponsford, Kippax & Co.," New Zealand Truth, 2 February 1928, p. 1.
  3. ^ "The Australian Team in New Zealand", The Cricketer, 5 May 1928, pp. 16–17.

Further reading

  • Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 98–99