A year or two- ago, when Pakistan was rather urgently
seeking admission to the Imperial Cricket Conference, membership in which India automatically retained after the partition in 1947, it was explained by Sir Pelham Warner and others that one quali- fication necessary was a demonstration that Pakistan could produce a team up to Test Match standard. Having soundly beaten the M.C.C. fit Karachi on Monday by four wickets, Pakistan has put herself very definitely on the map, even though the M.C.C. XI is not quite the same thing as an England XI. Politics and cricket should not be mixed• up. All the same, if the matter is hanging in the balance, the desirability of putting Pakistan and India on the same footing so far as cricket is con- cerned might well be allowed to turn the scale. But as more Dominions get to playing better and better cricket, the problem of fitting in tours and Test Matches becomes really serious.
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