12 JULY 1968, Page 30

Cures for cricket

Sir: In comment on Mr Weidberg's courteous letter (5 July), I would say from my experience (oversimplifying to save space) that there are two kinds of professional cricketers—the old, experienced and established who are concerned about the future of the game and who welcome overseas players in the hope that they will attract gates—young men of the late teens and early twenties who are not for the most part very alive to the economic problems of the game, who are mainly interested in the glory of getting into the county team and see their diffi- culties on achieving that increased if the team is laced with overseas players.