Because of fixture congestion
and the constraints of the Future Tours Programme, the English and South
African cricket authorities agreed to play four Tests instead of the
traditional five. Hugh Morris, ECB director of cricket, described it as
"a well-balanced tour".There were 5 one-day internationals and six other preceding matches,
providing practice at the start of the tour.
The one-day series was won
2-1 by England,
although spoiled by heavy rain causing two matches to be washed out.
The Test series was shared
one-all despite South
Africa’s obvious superiority. England were
fortunate to gain a draw in both the first and third matches through Onions
and Collingwood resolutely holding out as England were nine wickets down and on
the point of defeat. However, England roared back to take the second Test,
Swann and Broad bowling the South Africans to an innings defeat. South Africa then hit back with their own
innings victory in the final Test at Johannesburg.
Middle-order batsmenIan Bell, Jonatahan Trott,
Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood + Michael Carberry (reinforcement)
Wicket-keeper:Matt Prior, Steven Davies
All-rounder:Luke Wright
Slow bowlers: Adil Rashid, Graeme Swann +
James Tredwell (reinforcement)
Fast
bowlers:James Anderson, Stuart
Broad, Graham Onions, Ryan Sidebottom, Liam Plunkett, + Mark Davies (reinforcement)
⋄ECB central contracts
2009-10:
Seven players were awarded England increment 2009-10
contracts: Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Andrew Flintoff, Adil Rashid, Owais
Shah, Jonathan Trott and Luke Wright. Also Eoin Morgan (3 March 2010) and
Steven Finn (4 June 2010).
J M Anderson
La⋄
27
RFM
ODI
I R Bell
Wk⋄
27
RHB
S C J Broad
Nt⋄
23
LHBRFM
ODI
P D Collingwood
Du⋄
33
RHBRM
ODI
A N Cook
Ex⋄
24
LHBopenervice-captain
ODI
S M Davies
Wo
23
LHBsecond WK
G Onions
Du⋄
27
RFM
ODI
K P Pietersen
Ha⋄
29
RHB
ODI
L E Plunkett
Du
24
RFM
ODIadded
M J Prior
Sx⋄
27
RHBWK
ODI
A U Rashid
Yo
21
RHBLBG
ODI
R Sidebottom
Nt⋄
31
LFM
A J Strauss
Mx⋄
32
LHBopener captain
ODI
G P Swann
Nt⋄
30
OB
ODI
I J L Trott
Wk
28
RHB
ODI
L J Wright
Sx
24
RHBRM
ODI
Participating in ODI series but not
T T Bresnan (Y)
ODI
in the Test
matches:
J L Denly (Kt)
ODI
Sajid I Mahmood(La)
ODI
E J G Morgan (Mx)
ODI
County representation:
Du - Durham (3)
Ex-Essex (1)
Ha - Hampshire (1)
La - Lancashire
(1)
Mx - Middlesex (1)
Nt - Nottinghamshire (3)
Sx - Sussex (2)
Wk - Warwickshire (2)
Wo - Worcestershire (1)
Yo - Yorkshire
(1)
Average age ofteam at time of first Test match
(16 December 2009) :
27
yrs 6 months.
ODI : member of the one-day international squad
⋄central contracts 2009-10:
Test
Appearances made before the tour
Strauss 67, Pietersen 54, Collingwood 53, Bell 49, Cook 48,
Anderson 42, Prior 23, Broad 22, Sidebottom 21, Swann 12, Plunkett 9, Onions
5, Trott 1, S Davies 0, Rashid 0, Wright 0; Carberry 0, M Davies 0, Tredwell
0.
Tour
Officials
Phil
Neale
Team Manager
Andy
Flower
Head coach
Ottis
Gibson
Bowling coach
Graham
Gooch
Batting coach
Andrew
Walpole
Media relations
Graham
Gooch was recruited to the coaching staff on a temporary basis on 28
November.
Selectors
Geoff
Miller (national selector),Ashley Giles, James Whitaker, Andy
Flower (coach)
Selection
Not considered:
Tour Party Announced:8 October 2009.
Surgery on Pietersen's achilles heel had yet to completely heal
so he would likely miss some parts of the tour.
Not selected : Steve
Harmison, Ravi Bopara, Monty Panesar,Owais Shah (for ODIs)
The Daily Telegraphwrote Harmison “… talked himself out of a spot on the
tour, both by asking to be guaranteed a place in the England first XI, and by warning the selectors
that he was not interested in touring Australia next winter.”
Time between selection and departure from England
23 days
(8 October - 31 October)
Travel
LondonQJohannesburg
England departed for Johannesburg
from London Heathrow at 1750 on Saturday 31 October 2009, six days earlier
than originally scheduled, in order to play two extra warm-up matches. They
arrived on 1 November, and were taken on to Bloemfontein.
Time spent in South Africa
80days
(1
November -19 January)
On-tour
selection panel
Reinforcements
Liam Plunkett flew out to join the
one-day side on Wednesday 18 November as injuries to Stuart Broad, James
Anderson and Graeme Swann mounted. Bowling coach Ottis Gibson had to field in
the match at Potchefstroom.
J C Tredwell
Kt
27
OB
A M Davies
Dur
29
RFM
M A Carberry
Ha
29
LHB opener
Three
players who were already in South Africa with the England Performance Squad were
called into the Test squad as cover for injured players: firstly, Mark Davies for James Anderson and
Ryan Sidebottom ;then James Tredwell came in as cover for Graeme Swann,
firstly into the one-day squad and then on 14 December to the Test
party;on 30 December Michael Carberry was called up from
the Performance Squad as cover for Paul Collingwood, who had dislocated his
finger.
The squad departed from Johannesburg for home on
19 January 2010.
Time away from England
81
days
(31
October - 20 January)
Finances
Accounts
of the tour
Postscript
Other
Test tours in 2009-10
Acknowledgements
To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive
(Gale Group);Jamaica Gleanor
archive;National Library of Australia
Trove; Papers Past NZ.
From former British Newspaper
Library, Colindale and online:The
Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra
Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent
(Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New
Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times,
Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune
Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.
Magazines/periodicals including
Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer
International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field
Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand,
Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’
Almanack.
Men In White, A History of
Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)
Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C.
Library at Lord’s Ground)ALL CONTENTS OF THE
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