Tour of Zimbabwe 2000-01         Captain : Stephen Fleming

40th official Test tour.

Third Test-playing  tour of Zimbabwe by New Zealand

 ( August -

            October  2000)

Note:  The tours of Zimbabwe & South Africa in 2000-01 ran consecutively and are really a single tour, but are described as two separate tours to allow greater detail.

Spate of injuries to bowlers, both fast and slow, put down to the increasing demands of international cricket. New Zealand playing more or less continuously since 1998

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 tour

India 1999-00

Next tour

South Africa 2000-01

Next tour of Zimbabwe 

2005

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen   Matthew Horne, Mark Richardson, Craig Spearman

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

Wicket-keeper  Adam Parore

Spin bowlers   Daniel Vettori, Paul Wiseman

Fast bowlers   Chris Cairns, Dion Nash,  Shayne O'Connor, Daryl Tuffey

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Provincial representation

A - Auckland (2)

C - Canterbury (3)

CD - Central Districts (2)

ND - Northern Districts (3)

O - Otago (4)

W - Wellington (1)  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(12 September 2000) : 

27 yrs  2 months.

ODI  member of the one-day series squads

(S)  Godrej Singapore Challenge

(Z)  ODIs in Zimbabwe

(ICC)  ICC Challenge Nairobi

(SA)  South Africa ODIs

Test Appearances made before the tour

Parore 61,  Fleming 51,  Cairns 47,  Astle 37,  Nash 30,  Vettori 30,  Horne 27,  McMillan 22,  Spearman 16,  O’Connor 12,  Wiseman 10,  Sinclair 4,  Tuffey 1,  Richrdson 0,  Styris 0.

Team Officials

Selectors

Sir Richard Hadlee (convenor),  Ross Dykes,  Brian McKechnie,  David Trist (coach).

Selection

Unavailable  :

Tour Party Announced  : 26 July 2000

(1)  XIII for Singapore Challenge  

(2)  for the Tests against Zimbabwe 

(3)  for the ODI series in Zimbabwe

(4)  for the ICC Challenge in Kenya; fourteen were allowed so Tuffey had to be left out.

Not selected: 

After the Test matches Roger Twose, Chris Harris, Scott Styris and Geoff Allott would replace Cairns, Horne, Richardson and Sinclair for the one-day series in Zimbabwe.

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

  17 days

(26 July to 12 August)

Travel

Christchurch  Q Brisbane QSingaporeQHarare 

 Nairobi  Q Johannesburg

Assembled for two days in Christchurch “working out in the nets, in gymnasiums, and on the road” before departing on 12 August to Brisbane, for warm-up matches.

Then to Singapore (17 August) where manager Jeff Crowe from New Zealand and Nathan Astle from England joined them.

After the Singapore Challenge the team flew to Harare on 29-30 August, via Johannesburg.  They arrived in Harare on Tuesday 29 August 2000. Horne, Richardson and Sinclair now joined the tour party in Zimbabwe to play in the Test series.

On Wed 20 September Geoff Allott, Roger Twose, Chris Nevin and Glen Sulzberger left Christchurch flying to Zimbabwe for the ODI series.

The team went from Harare to Kenya for the ICC tournament on 5 October.

Nairobi-Johannesburg 16 October.

The five Test replacements - Mathew Sinclair, Mark Richardson and Hamish Marshall and bowlers Kerry Walmsley and Chris Martin - arrived in Cape Town on Fiday 3 November

Time spent in Zimbabwe    37 days

(29 August ?  - 5 October)

On-tour selection panel

Stephen Fleming (captain),  David Trist (coach),  Chris Cairns (vice-captain),  Nathan Astle.

Reinforcements

Chris Nevin strained his groin (hernia) during training prior the first warm-up match against Queensland at Brisbane so Adam Parore replaced him for the Singapore Challenge. When the side for the Zimbabwe ODIs was re-selected, Nevin went back to Zimbabwe, and Chris Spearman was given a place in the one-day side.

A back injury ended Daniel Vettori’s tour after the first Test in Bulawayo and he returned to New Zealand, leaving on 20 September. Matt Horne chipped a bone in his thumb in the same match and also returned home. Chris Harris was brought in to replace them but did not play in the Test section of the tour.

After the Zimbabwe Tests, Chris Cairns went to South Africa for treatment on his right knee. He was able to return for the ICC knockout in Nairobi. However, Dion Nash troubled by the same back injury he had had throughout his career, needed to return to New Zealand for treatment. Simon Doull (ND) had earlier said, as the South Africa tour got under way, that he did not wish to be considered as a replacement bowler as he was not fit and ready.

For the one-day series in Zimbabwe and Kenya, Glen Sulzberger replaced Daniel Vettori.

Fixtures/Results

Click for the South African section of the tour

† not first-class

Time spent in Zimbabwe  before First Test: 

14 ? days

(29 ? August - 12 September)

Test appearances on tour

5  -    Astle,  Fleming,  McMillan,  O’Connor,  Parore,  Richardson,  Sinclair.

4  - 

3  -    Martin,  Spearman,  Walker

2  -    Cairns,  Tuffey,  Wiseman

1  -    Horne,  Marshall,  Nash,  Vettori,  Walmsley.

0  -    Styris.

Match Appearances

(including ICC Trophy in Kenya and South African tour 2000-01)

 T O   B E   I N C L U D E D

Highlights

•   Matt Horne reached his fourth Test century (105)

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Tour Summary

Return to New Zealand

Vettori, Nash and Horne all returned home early, owing to injury.

Richardson and Sinclair returned to New Zealand immediately after the Tests in Zimbabwe

The team flew from Nairobi to Johannesburg on 16 October for the South African one-day series.

Time away from New Zealand   124 days  

(12 August to 14 December)

Finances

Next tour

The tour continued in South Africa