Test Cricket Tour New Zealand England India Pakistan 1969

Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to England, India, Pakistan 1969

Tour of England, India, Pakistan 1969     Captain : Graham Dowling

Ninth New Zealand Test tour
( June - November 1969)

Sixth Test-playing tour of England by New Zealand;
   (previous tour 1965)

Third Test tours of India and Pakistan by New Zealand
   (previous tour 1964-65)



The first touring party sent out of New Zealand for four years appears at first to have been, despite the players’ efforts, as unsuccessful as any before. The New Zealanders played in the second half of the English summer, after West Indies had toured there. Seven of the team had toured England before in 1965.
The three-Test series in England was lost two-nil. Confidence was low, and of Lord’s Glenn Turner wrote “We played amateurishly and showed little fight. So many of our side just slogged out.” Despite playing with more resolution in the other two Test matches the lack of covering made the pitches difficult to cope with. Underwood at the top of his form captured twelve wickets at The Oval where largely because to him New Zealand were humbled.
In India, however, New Zealand won a Test match, the only Test then played at Nagpur, to square a three-Test series one-all. Crowd disorder caused some disruption to the final Test before a thunderstorm prevented New Zealand from capturing the three wickets needed to win the third Test after they had reduced India to 76 for 7.
Even better, the New Zealanders then beat Pakistan at Lahore to give them victory in a Test series for the first time.

All New Zealand tours

Previous tour
England 1965

Next tour
West Indies 1971-72

Next tour of England
1973

Next tour of Pakistan and India
1976-77

Members of the Test tour party (16 + 1)

Opening batsmen:Graham Dowling, Bruce Murray, Glenn Turner
Batsmen: Mark Burgess, Bevan Congdon, Brian Hastings,
Wicket-keepers: Barry Milburn, Ken Wadsworth
Spin bowlers: Hedley Howarth, Vic Pollard, Brian Yuile
Fast bowlers: Dick Collinge, Bob Cunis, Dayle Hadlee, Dick Motz, Bruce Taylor + David Trist (reinforcement)

M G Burgess
A
25
RHB         (OB)

R O Collinge
W
23
RFM

B E Congdon
CD
31
RHB        (RM)

R S Cunis
A
28
RFM

G T Dowling
C
32
RHB opener       captain

D R Hadlee
C
21
RFM

B F Hastings
C
29
RHB

H J Howarth
A
25
SLA

B D Milburn
O
25
WK

R C Motz
C
29
RFM

B A G Murray
W
28
RHB opener

V Pollard
CD
23
RHB       OB       vice-captain

B R Taylor
C
26
RFM

G M Turner
O
22
RHB opener

K J Wadsworth
CD
22
WK

B W Yuile
CD
27
SLA

Provincial representation:
   (Plunket Shield teams)

A - Auckland (3)
C - Canterbury (5)
CD - Central Districts (4)
ND - Northern Districts (0)
O - Otago (2)
W - Wellington(2)

Average age of team at time of first Test match
(24 July 1969) :
28 yrs 2 months.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Motz 29, Dowling 26, Congdon 20, Pollard 20, Taylor 15, Yuile 14, Collinge 12, Cunis 7, Burgess 6, Murray 4, Hastings 3, Milburn 3, Turner 3, Hadlee 0, Howarth 0, Wadsworth 0.

Tour Officials

Gordon Burgess
Manager
Dick Brittenden
Liasion Officer

Scorer / baggage

G C Burgess, born 1918, was a former Auckland player and member of the New Zealand Cricket Council Board of Control. He had earlier managed the New Zealand team against West Indies at home in 1956.

Selectors

Frank Cameron, Ken Deas and Murray Chapple.

Selection

Unavailable : Barry Sinclair (announced on 12 February), Jack Alabaster and John Ward.
Graham Dowling and Glenn Turner were unavailable at first but changed their minds.
Tour Party Announced : 22 February 1969.
Not selected: Ross Morgan.

Like the 1965 touring party, the team was given a reunion in 2009

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand   106 days
(22 February to 8 June)

Travel
Auckland Q Heathrow

Heathrow Q Bombay   Q Karachi

The team flew from Auckland International Airport (Mangere) on 8 June and landed at Heathrow Airport on 10 June.
Worcestershire released Glenn Turner from his county contract for the second half of the summer and he joined the team in time for the first county match at Bradford.

At the end of the England tour the team left Heathrow Airport, London, on 12 September 1969 landing at Bombay’s Santa Cruz Airport early next morning in the rain - the monsoon had not yet cleared.

The Indian Board of Control had asked their government for £5000 in the belief that the New Zealanders would use Air India during their tour and on the flights from England. When this did not happen, a second application was rejected and the tour was temporarily placed in jeopardy. The Indian press wrongly accused the New Zealanders of changing their travel plans.
After the Indian tour, they arrived in Karachi at 11 pm on 22 October from Bombay.

Time spent in England
   94 days
(10 June - 12 September)

Time spent in India/Pakistan
   61 days
(13 September - 13 November)

On-tour selection panel

Graham Dowling (captain), Vic Pollard (vice-captain) and Brian Yuile.

Reinforcements

Glenn Turner broke his knuckle in the game against Minor Counties and was out of action for three weeks.

D G Trist
C
22
RFM

David Trist was brought in for the Indian tour in place of Motz.   Dick Motz returned home before the Indian leg of the tour with a back injury.

Fixtures/Results

The first Test was rescheduled from Ahmedabad where there was rioting.

a
† Eastbourne
D H Robins XI (3-day)
Drawn
b
† Kennington Oval
London New Zealand CC (1-day)
Drawn
c
† Luton
International Cavaliers (40 overs)
Lost 38 r
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Bradford
Yorkshire
Drawn
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Glasgow
Scotland
Won inns 119 r
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Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Drawn
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Kennington Oval
Surrey
Drawn
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Westcliff-on-Sea
Essex
Lost 15 r
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Middlesex
Drawn
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Kent
Drawn
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LORD’S
ENGLAND First Test
LOST 230 r
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Minor Counties
Won 106 r
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Glamorgan
Drawn
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TRENT BRIDGE
ENGLAND Second Test
DRAWN
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Hampshire
Drawn
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Hove
Sussex
Drawn
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ENGLAND Third Test
LOST 8 w
r
Worcester
Worcestershire
Drawn
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Lancashire
Drawn
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Edgbaston
Warwickshire
Won 50 r
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Scarborough
T N Pearce's XI
Won 7 w
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Cricketers Association (1-day)
Won 23 r

w
Bombay
Indian Universities
Drawn
x
BOMBAY
INDIA First Test
LOST 60 r
y
NAGPUR
INDIA Second Test
WON 167 r
z
Indore
Board President’s XI
Drawn
a’
HYDERABAD
INDIA Third Test
DRAWN
b’
KARACHI
PAKISTAN First Test
DRAWN
c’
LAHORE
PAKISTAN   Second Test
WON 5 w
d’
Rawalpindi
President’s XI
Drawn
e’
DACCA
PAKISTAN Third Test
DRAWN

† not first-class

Time spent in England before First Test:
44 days
(10 June - 24 July)

Test appearances on tour

9 -   Congdon, Dowling, Howarth, Wadsworth.
8 -   Burgess, Hadlee, Hastings,   Murray.
7 -   Pollard.
6 -   Cunis, Turner.
5 -   Taylor.
4 -
3 -   Motz, Yuile.
2 -
1 -   Collinge.
0 -   Milburn, Trist.

Match appearances

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x other match
∙ played for opposition

W won L lost D drawn
N no result   A abandoned
u unknown result

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R O Collinge
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B E Congdon
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G T Dowling
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D R Hadlee
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B F Hastings
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H J Howarth
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B D Milburn
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R C Motz

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B A Murray

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V Pollard

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B R Taylor
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D G Trist

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G M Turner

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K Wadsworth
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B W Yuile

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New Zealand’s six previous Test tour results:

in England 1965 (3 Tests)
- lost 0-3
in India & Pakistan 1964-65 (7 Tests)
- lost 0-1, lost 0-2
in South Africa 1961-62 (5 Tests)
- drew 2-2
in England 1958 (5 Tests)
- lost 0-4
in India & Pakistan 1955-56 (8 Tests)
- lost 0-2 and lost 0-2
in South Africa 1953-54 (5 Tests)
- lost 0-4

Highlights

•   Bevan Congdon (66) and Brian Hastings (83) shared a record partnership of 150 together at Trent Bridge
•   In the Oval Test match Dick Motz became the first New Zealand bowler to capture 100 wickets.
•   Hedley Howarth had a match analysis of 9 for 100 in the Test victory at Nagpur.
•   Bob Cunis took 3 for 12 in each innings of the Hyderabad Test match against India.
•   In the last Test match at Dacca, Glenn Turner scored New Zealand’s first Test century of the tour.
•   Mark Burgess topped it with 119* in the second innings, sharing a 9th wicket stand of 96 with Cunis.

⋆ Tour Summary

P
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
9
2
3
4
-
Other first-class matches
18
4
1
13
-
Minor matches
4
1
1
2
-
All Matches
31
7
5
19
-

Return to New Zealand

HeathrowQ Karachi

Dacca Q Auckland

The final Test match was played in Dacca. The New Zealanders arrived in Dacca from Rawalpindi on 6 November. They flew home on Thursday 13 November from Dacca Airport, via Singapore, and landed at Mangere Airport, on Sunday 16 November.

Mangere Airport is twelve miles outside Auckland. It was named after Mount Mangere nearby and took over from Whenuapai Airport in 1966. R W G Emery, who appeared in Test matches for New Zealand against West Indies in 1951-52, became a manager at the airport.

Time away from New Zealand    161 days
(8 June to 16 November)

Finances

Written accounts of the tour

“Scoreboard 69” by R T Brittenden (Reed, 1970).

Postscript

The New Zealand Cricket Council meeting at Christchurch in October 1969 received an invitation to tour South Africa.

Other Test tours in 1969
                           in 1969-70

West Indians to England 1969
Australians to India 1969-70.