Tour of  West Indies 2001-02                   Captain : Stephen Fleming

44th official Test tour                

Fourth Test-playing  tour of West Indies by New Zealand

 (June-July 2002)

New Zealand’s first Test victory in the Caribbean.

New Zealand asked to have rest instead of playing a three-day practice match before the Test series began, as they had played so much cricket in the ODIs and on the tour of Pakistan.

All New Zealand tours

Previous tour

Pakistan 2001-02

Next tour

Sri Lanka 2002-03

Next tour of West Indies

2012

Members of the Test tour party (14)

Opening batsmen  Lou Vincent, Mark Richardson, Matthew Horne

Middle-order batsmen  Stephen Fleming, Craig McMillan, Scott Styris, Chris Harris, Nathan Astle

Wicket-keepers  Robbie Hart

Spin bowlers  Daniel Vettori

Fast bowlers  Shane Bond, Ian Butler, Chris Martin, Daryl Tuffey

Representation of teams  

A - Auckland

C - Canterbury

CD - Central Districts

ND - Northern Districts

O - Otago

W - Wellington

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(21 June 2002) :  27 yrs  3 months.

ODI :  part of the ODI squad

Test Appearances made before the tour

Fleming 69,  Astle 53,  McMillan 40,  Vettori 40,  Horne 33,  Harris 21,  Richardson 18,  Martin 11,  Tuffey 9,  Vincent 7,  Bond 4,  Butler 2,  Hart 1,  Styris 0.

Team Officials

Selectors

Sir Richard Hadlee (chairman),  Ross Dykes,  Brian McKechnie  and  Denis Aberhart,

Selection

Unavailable : Dion Nash (retired, plagued by a hip injury);  Chris Cairns (his NZ contract ran out in April so he was free to play for Nottinghamshire but in the event his knee was not fit enough);  Andre Adams (stress fracture in the lumbar region of his back);  Shayne O’Connor (rehabilitating from knee operation).

Announcement of the team was delayed while the N Z Players Association negotiated a contract.

Shane Bond, recovered from a stress fracture to his foot, acclimatised for the tour in Darwin with NZC’s development manager Ashley Ross, so he knew he would be in the team. 

Test Tour Party Announced  : 23 May 2002, with one place left open to be decided during the one-day matches.

Not selected:  Brooke Walker.

A 15-man one-day squad was named at the same time.

The final place in the Test squad was awarded on 14 June to Scott Styris, who stayed on after the Test series.

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

  5 days

(23 May to 28 May)

Travel

Auckland  Q Kingston

Departure was on 28 May. The one-day squad flew out from Auckland, breaking their journey in Los Angeles, and arrived in Kingston, Jamaica on …..  Bad weather confined the New Zealanders to indoor practice sessions at the University of the West Indies.

Robbie Hart, Chris Martin and Mark Richardson were not part of the one-day squad. Like Bond, they also had a spell in Darwin, preparing to join the team for the Test matches.

Time spent in West Indies     x days

(arrival - 3 July)

On-tour selection panel

 -

Reinforcements

None

Fixtures/Results

(FWG)  Frank Worrell Ground  (SP)  Sabina Park

† not first-class

§ one-day internationals

Time spent in West Indies before First Test: 

x days

(arrival - 21 June)

Test appearances on tour

2  -    Astle,  Bond,  Butler,  Fleming,  Harris,  Hart,  McMillan,  Richardson,  Vettori,  Vincent

1  -    Styris,  Tuffey.

0  -    Horne,  Martin

Highlights

•   Stephen Fleming scored 130 in the first Test

•   Shane Bond took 5-78 to bowl out West Indies in the first Test at Bridgetown. He followed it with 5-104 in the second Test.

•   Scott Styris scored 107 and 69 not out on debut in the second Test

•   Richardson and Lou Vincent had partnerships of 61 and 117

Tour Summary

Return to New Zealand

?   Q ?

Jacob Oram,  Chris Nevin, Paul Hitchcock and Matthew Hart from the one-day squad were not required for the Test matches.

The Test squad departed on 3 July

Time away from New Zealand    x days  

(28 May to July)

Finances

Postscript

Fulfilling International Cricket Council (ICC) requirements to play a certain number of Tests every year meant that tours were scheduled later in the season at the start of the tropical hurricane, and were partly to blame for the West Indies Cricket Board’s huge financial losses.