Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to India 2012-13

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Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to India 2012-13

Tour of India 2012-13 Captain : Ross Taylor

Sixty-first official Test tour.

Tenth Test-playing tour of India by New Zealand

(August - September 2012)

The tour served as a warm-up for the World Twenty20 Championships.

F U R T H E R D E T A I L S I N P R E P A R A T I O N

All New Zealand tours

Previous Test tour

West Indies 2012

Next Test tour

South Africa 2012-13

Next tour of India

2016-17

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen: Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum.

Middle-order batsmen Ross Taylor, Daniel Flynn, Kane Williamson, B-J Watling,

Wicket-keeper: Kruger van Wyk.

All-rounders: James Franklin, Doug Bracewell.

Slow bowlers: Tarun Nethula, Jeetan Patel.

Fast bowlers: Tim Southee, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult, Chris Martin.

T A Boult	ND	23	LMF

D A J Bracewell	CD	21	RHB RM	T20

D R Flynn	ND	27	LHB

J E C Franklin	W	31	LHB LFM	T20

M J Guptill	A	25	RHB opener	T20

B B McCullum	O	30	RHB opener	T20

C S Martin	A	37	RFM

T S Nethula	CD	29	LB

ϯ J S Patel	W	32	OB

T G Southee	ND	23	RFM	T20

L R P L Taylor	CD	28	RHB captain	T20

C F K van Wyk	CD	32	WK

ϯ N Wagner	O	26	LFM

B-J Watling	ND	27	RHB reserve WK	T20

K S Williamson	ND	21	RHB OB	T20


Member of the T20 squad only:			ϯ Roneel M Hira (C)	T20
			N L McCullum (O)	T20
			K D Mills (A)	T20
			ϯ Adam F Milne (CD)	T20
			R J Nicol (C)	T20
ϯ not a centrally contracted player			J D P Oram (CD)	T20
			D L Vettori (ND)	T20

Representation of teams:

A – Auckland (2)

C – Canterbury (0)

CD - Central Districts (4)

ND - Northern Districts (5)

O – Otago (2)

W – Wellington (2)

Average age of team at time of first Test match

(23 August 2012):

28 yrs 0 months.

T20 played in Twenty20 series and World T20 Championships

Test Appearances made before the tour

Martin 69, McCullum 66, Taylor 39, Franklin 27, Guptill 24, Flynn 18, Southee 18, Williamson 14, Patel 13, Bracewell 9, Watling 8, van Wyk 5, Boult 4, Wagner 2, Nethula 0.

Team Officials

Mike Sandle	Team Manager
Mike Hesson	Head coach
R M Bob Carter	Assistant coach
Paul Close	Physiotherapist

Selectors

National selection manager Kim Littlejohn (chairman), John Buchanan (High Performance Director of cricket), Mike Hesson (coach), Ross Taylor (captain).

Selection

Unavailable : Daniel Vettori (groin injury suffered in the West Indies)

Not considered: Jesse Ryder

Tour Party Announced : 7 August 2012.

Not selected: Dean Brownlie

T20 squad announced: 15 August. The squad would also represent NZ in the World T20 Championships.

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

10 days

(7 August - 17 August)

Travel

The first batch of New Zealand cricketers accompanied by new coaches Mike Hesson and Bob Carter took off from Christchurch Airport on Friday 17 August 2012, and arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad late that night.

The remainder of the squad left New Zealand next day on Saturday 18 August 2012. The team met the press at Hyderabad’s cricket stadium on Sunday.

Time spent in India

days

(18 August -

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

Fixtures/Results

a	HYDERABAD	INDIA First Test
b	BANGALORE	INDIA Second Test
c	⊕ Visakhapatnam	India (1st T20)
d	⊕ Chennai	India (2nd T20)

e		World T20 Championships
f
g
h

⊕(T20I)Twenty 20 international

§ one-day international

† not first-class

Time spent in India before First Test: 5 days

(18 August - 23 August)

Test appearances on tour

2 -

1 -

0 -

Highlights

•

Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D	Aban
Test Matches	2				-
Other first-class matches	0				-
†Minor matches	0				-
§ One-day internationals	0				-
⊕ Twenty 20 internationals	2				-
All Matches	4				-

Return to New Zealand

last match ends September 2012

Time away from New Zealand

x days (17 August to arrive back in NZ)

Finances