Tour of England 2004                    Captain : Stephen Fleming

47th official Test tour.

14th Test-playing  tour of England by New Zealand

 (May - July  2004)

Chris Cairns signalled in advance that this tour would be his farewell to Test cricket.

p a g e    I n    p r e p a r a t I o n

All New Zealand tours

Previous tour

India 2003-04

Next tour

Bangladesh 2004-05

Next tour of England

2008

Members of the Test tour party (14)

Opening batsmen  Mark Richardson, Michael Papps

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

Wicket-keepers  Brendon McCullum

All-rounders:  Chris Cairns, Jacob Oram

Spin bowlers  Daniel Vettori

Fast bowlers  Chris Martin, Shane Bond, Kyle Mills, Daryl Tuffey

Representation of teams:  

A - Auckland (1)

C - Canterbury (7)

CD - Central Districts (1)

ND - Northern Districts (3)

O - Otago (1)

W - Wellington (1)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(20 May 2004) :  28 yrs  1 months.

ODI :  part of the ODI squad

Test Appearances made before the tour

Fleming 82 ,  Astle 59 ,  Cairns 59,   Vettori 53 ,  McMillan 50 ,  Richardson 31,  Tuffey 20,  Martin 13,  Styris 12,  Bond 10,  Oram 10,  McCullum 3,  Papps 3,  Mills 0.

Team Officials

Selectors

Sir Richard Hadlee (chairman),  Ross Dykes,  Brian McKechnie

Selection

Unavailable  : None

Tour Party Announced  :   6 April 2004.

Three players  - Nathan Astle (knee surgery), Shane Bond (stress fractures in back) and Darryl Tuffey (knee and thigh) - were chosen subject to fitness tests at Lincoln University which they passed on 24 April.

Not selected:  Four of New Zealand Cricket’s 20 contracted players were not chosen: Ian Butler, Matthew Sinclair, Lou Vincent and Paul Wiseman, although Ian Butler was later added to the one-day squad in place of Bond. 

One-day squad announced:  20 May 2004

Stephen Fleming (capt), Nathan Astle, Shane Bond, Chris Cairns, Chris Harris, Gareth Hopkins (wk), Hamish Marshall, Brendon McCullum (wk), Craig McMillan, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Michael Papps, Scott Styris, Daryl Tuffey, Daniel Vettori.

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

  21 days

(6 April to 27 April)

Travel

?  Q London

The squad of 14 players and six non-playing members left for England on Tuesday 27 April

They arrived in London on

Time spent in England

   x days

(arrival - depart Host)

On-tour selection panel

The selection was in the sole hands of John Bracewell (coach).

Reinforcements

ADDED ▷    Butler, Franklin, Sinclair, Hopkins, Adams

◁ W/D   Bond, Mills, McCullum

Matthew Sinclair was playing in the East Anglian League and was brought into the squad on 31 May as cover for Craig McMillan, who broke a finger on his left hand.

Because Shane Bond (sore back), Vettori (torn hamstring), Oram (side strain), Papps (broken finger) and Tuffey (knee) were all injured, James Franklin, currently playing club cricket in Lancashire, was added on 6 June.

The day after Shane Bond flew home for treatment on his back injury, Ian Butler, playing for Kent on a short-term contract, took Bond’s place in the one-day squad. Kyle Mills returned home with a side strain in mid-June, which meant Franklin kept a place in the side. Andre Adams joined the one-day group as cover.

Gareth Hopkins, the Otago wicketkeeper, joined the team to play against Leicestershire, and then provided wicketkeeping cover for Brendon McCullum when he flew home for the birth of his first child.

Daniel Vettori pulled a hamstring in the second Test and there was not time to call up a spin bowling replacement for the two remaining Tests, though Vettori recovered to play in the NatWest ODI series.

Fixtures/Results

ϯ not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in England before First Test: 

x days

(arrival - 20 May)

Test appearances on tour

3  - 

2  - 

1  - 

0  -    

Highlights

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Tour Summary

Return to New Zealand

London  Q ?

Shane Bond withdrew from the tour and returned home on 7 June.

Chris Martin and Mark Richardson went home at the end of the Test series.

Brendon McCullum flew home to Christchurch on 27 June to be with his pregnant wife.

The team arrived home on 15 July.

Two months later the New Zealanders returned to England to compete in the ICC Champions Trophy.

Time away from New Zealand    79 days  

(27 April to 15 July)

Finances

Written accounts of the tour