OTBALL having marched into cricket's June "territory, there is nothing cricket can do except hope that this is not the beginning of permanent summer-time soccer.
The F.A. say there is nothing to fear.
Besides, have they not asked the League in arranging the Cup competition to ensure a minimum of interference with summer games? This promise has been seized on by people in the Yorkshire Cricket Federation and by clubs in the south as well.
They want to know what is to be the extent of this proposed ce-operation with summer sports.
What happens when the later Cup ties in May and the final itself in June are being played? If these matches are decided on Saturday afternoon, competing cricket matches will be hit as hard as if the skies opened and drenched their grounds with rain.
Perhaps a 630 kick-off would offer no challenge to cricket, and though it would be unusual to have a Cup Final at that hour, I see no reason why it should fail to appeal, and 1 think we should get a better game.
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