The
MCC team that toured
Australia
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in the 1936–37 season also played three
first-class matches
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in
New Zealand at the end of the tour in March and April 1937. They played no
Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
in New Zealand, although one of the matches was against a representative New Zealand XI, all of whose team members went on the
tour of England barely six weeks later where three Test matches were played.
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Representative match
References
External links
M.C.C. in New Zealand, 1936-37
at Cricinfo
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Further reading
* Don Neely
Donald Owen Neely (21 December 1935 – 16 June 2022) was a New Zealand cricket historian, administrator and player. He served as president of New Zealand Cricket and wrote or co-wrote over 30 books on New Zealand cricket.
Early life
Neely wa ...
& Richard Payne, ''Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985'', Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 139–41
1937 in English cricket
1937 in New Zealand cricket
New Zealand cricket seasons from 1918–19 to 1944–45
1936-37
International cricket competitions from 1918–19 to 1945
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