An English team raised by

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(MCC) toured

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from December 1935 to March 1936 and played eight

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including four against the New Zealand national cricket team. MCC also played the main provincial teams,

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and Otago, and ten non-first-class matches against teams from minor cricket associations.CricketArchive – tour itinerary
/ref> The MCC team was captained by

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. The overall tour included a short stopover in Ceylon, where a single minor match was played, and six first-class matches in Australia between October and December 1935.

The team

(captain) *

Charles Lyttelton Charles Lyttelton may refer to: * Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet (1628–1716), Governor of Jamaica *Charles Lyttelton (bishop) (1714–1768), Bishop of Carlisle and antiquary * Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham (1842–1922), English cric ...

(vice-captain) *

Wilf Barber Wilfred Barber (18 April 1901 – 10 September 1968) was a professional first-class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1926 to 1947. He played two Test matches for England in 1935 against South Africa. An opening bat ...

* Sandy Baxter *

Billy Griffith Stewart Cathie Griffith, (16 June 1914 – 7 April 1993), known as Billy Griffith, was an English cricketer and cricket administrator. He played in three Test matches for England in 1948 and 1949. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge ...

* Joe Hardstaff *

John Human John Hanbury Human (16 January 1912 – 22 July 1991) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in the 1930s before moving to Australia. Cricket career John Human was educated at Repton and Clare College, Cambridge. He toured twi ...

* James Langridge * Mandy Mitchell-Innes * Jim Parks * Adam Powell * Hopper Read * Jim Sims * Denis Smith

Bob Wyatt Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt (2 May 1901 – 20 April 1995) was an English cricketer who played for Warwickshire, Worcestershire and England in a career lasting nearly thirty years from 1923 to 1951. He was born at Milford Heath House in Surrey ...

was offered the captaincy but declined, saying he needed a rest. In order to limit the expense of the tour, MCC chose only six professionals (Barber, Hardstaff, Langridge, Parks, Sims and Smith), and there was no manager. The team was the youngest-ever English touring team, with an average age of 26. Holmes judged his team to be "just about representative of England's second XI at the time".Holmes, p. 111. Lyttelton, later known as Viscount Cobham, returned to New Zealand as Governor-General between 1957 and 1962.

References

Bibliography

, ''Flannelled Foolishness'', Hollis & Carter, London, 1957, pp. 126–143 * Don Neely & Richard Payne, ''Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985'', Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 136–139

External links

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