Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to South Africa 2000-01

Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to South Africa 2000-01

Tour of South Africa 2000-01 Captain : Stephen Fleming

40th official Test tour.

Fourth Test-playing tour of South Africa by New Zealand

(October - December 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 here to allow greater detail.

With three days lost to rain the third Test was inevitably left drawn

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

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Previous tour

Zimbabwe 2000-01

Next tour

Pakistan 2001-02

Next tour of South Africa

2005-06

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Openers Mark Richardson, Craig Spearman

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

Wicket-keeper: Adam Parore

Spin bowlers:Brooke Walker, Paul Wiseman

Fast bowlers: Chris Martin, Shayne O'Connor, Daryl Tuffey, Kerry Walmsley.

N J Astle	C	29	RHB opener RM		ODI

S P Fleming	W	27	LHB captain		ODI

H J H Marshall	ND	21	RHB

C D McMillan	C	24	RHB RM		ODI

C S Martin	C	26	RFM

S B O'Connor	O	27	RFM		ODI

A C Parore	A	29	RHB WK		ODI

M H Richardson	O	29	LHB opener

M S Sinclair	CD	25	RHB

C M Spearman	CD	28	RHB opener		ODI

S J Styris	ND	25	RHB RM		ODI

D R Tuffey	ND	22	RFM		ODI

B G K Walker	A	23	LB		ODI

K P Walmsley	A	27	RFM

P J Wiseman	O	30	OB		ODI

Squad members for the one-day internationals				G I Allott (C)	ODI
				C L Cairns (C)	ODI
				C Z Harris(C)	ODI
				C J Nevin(W)	ODI
				R G Twose (W)	ODI

Provincial representation

A - Auckland (3)

C - Canterbury (3)

CD - Central Districts (2)

ND - Northern Districts (3)

O - Otago (3)

W - Wellington (1)

Average age of team at time of first Test match against South Africa

(17 November 2000) :

26 yrs 8 months.

ODI member of squad for Standard Bank one-day internationals

Test Appearances made before the South Africa series

Parore 63, Fleming 53, Astle 39, McMillan 24, Spearman 17, O’Connor 14, Wiseman 14, Sinclair 6, Richardson 2, Walmsley 2, Tuffey 1, Marshall 0, Martin 0, Penn 0, Styris 0, Walker 0.

Team Officials

Jeff Crowe	Tour Manager
David Trist	Coach
Mark Harrison	Physiotherapist
Ross Dykes	Selector on tour

Selectors

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

Selection

Unavailable : Dion Nash (collapsed disc), Simon Doull (not fully fit again after knee injury), Geoff Allott (stress fracture in his lower back).

The fitness of Chris Cairns (knee) and Dan Vettori (stress fracture in his back) also remained doubtful.

Test Tour Party Announced : There was a delay in naming the side for the Test series in South Africa from Wed 25 October owing to all the injuries to fast bowlers.

Brooke Walker won Vettori’s place when he was found not fit enough to rejoin the side.

Withdrawal: Andrew Penn was called up to join the team but strained his left side during a club match in Wellington and, after failing a fitness test on 30 October, was replaced by Chris Martin.

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

x days

(selection to depart NZ)

Travel

Nairobi Q Johannesburg

The 15-strong squad flew in from Nairobi to Johannesburg late at night on 16 October 2000 for the South African section of their tour

Scott Styris, originally earmarked to travel back after the ICC tournament, stayed on in place of Cairns.

New Zealand selector Ross Dykes, flew out from Christchurch on 28 October.

The five Test specialists - Mathew Sinclair, Mark Richardson, Hamish Marshall and bowlers Kerry Walmsley and Chris Martin - left New Zealand on Thursday 2 November 2000 and arrived in Cape Town on Friday 3 November.

Time spent in South Africa

x days

(16 October - depart Host)

On-tour selection panel

Stephen Fleming (captain), David Trist (coach), Ross Dykes (selector), Nathan Astle.

Reinforcements

The team management wanted Chris Cairns to remain as a batsman in the Tests but after a further scan on his knee, he returned home.

A J Penn

RFM

Scott Styris tore a cartilage in his right knee on the eve of the first Test began. Andrew Penn was then fit enough to re-join the tour, only to strain his side injury again in the first match he played on tour.

Paul Wiseman then sprained his ankle in the warm-up before the match against Boland and did not play again on tour. Glen Sulzberger flew back to South Africa to cover for him but played in only one side match.

Fixtures/Results

Click for Zimbabwe section of the tour

	Mutare	ZCU President's XI (3-day)	Drawn
	Kwekwe	Zimbabwe A (3-day)	Drawn
	BULAWAYO	ZIMBABWE First Test	WON 7 w
	HARARE	ZIMBABWE Second Test	WON 8 w
	† Harare	C F X Academy	Won 68 r
	§ Harare	Zimbabwe (1st ODI)	Won 7 w
	§ Bulawayo	Zimbabwe (2nd ODI)	Lost 21 r
	§ Bulawayo	Zimbabwe (3rd ODI)	Lost 6 w

	§ Nairobi	Zimbabwe (ICC Knockout)	Won 64 r
	§ Nairobi	Pakistan (ICC Knockout)	Won 4 w
	§ Nairobi	India (ICC Knockout final)	Won 4 w

p	ϯ Soweto	Gauteng(50 overs)	Won 79 r
q	§ Potchefstroom	South Africa (1st ODI)	No result
r	§ Benoni	South Africa (2nd ODI)	Lost 6 w
s	§ Centurion	South Africa (3rd ODI)	Lost 115 r
t	§ Kimberley	South Africa (4th ODI)	Lost 5 w
u	§ Durban	South Africa (5th ODI)	Lost 6 w
v	§ Cape Town	South Africa (6th ODI)	Lost 3 w
w	Paarl	Boland	Drawn
x	Potchefstroom	North West	Won 265 r
y	BLOEMFONTEIN	SOUTH AFRICA First Test	LOST 5 w
z	ϯ Alice	Border (50 overs)	Won 2 w
aa	East London	Border	Won 211 r
bb	PORT ELIZABETH	SOUTH AFRICA Second Test	LOST 7 w
cc	JOHANNESBURG	SOUTH AFRICA Third Test	DRAWN

ϯ not first-class

§ one-day internationals (Standard Bank series)

Time spent in South Africa before First Test:

x days

(16 October - 17 November)

Match appearances

G I Allott

N J Astle

C L Cairns

S P Fleming

C Z Harris

M J Horne

C D McMillan

H J H Marshall

C S Martin

D J Nash

C J Nevin

S B O'Connor

A C Parore

A J Penn

M H Richardson

M S Sinclair

C M Spearman

S J Styris

G P Sulzberger

D R Tuffey

R G Twose

D L Vettori

B Walker

K Walmsley

P J Wiseman

Test appearances on tour

3 - Astle, Fleming, McMillan, Martin, O’Connor, Parore, Richardson, Sinclair, Walker

2 - Spearman, Tuffey

1 - Marshall, Walmsley

0 - Styris, Penn, Wiseman.

Highlights

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• Mathew Sinclair scored 150 at Port Elizabeth

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Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D	Aban
Test Matches	5	2	2	1	-
Other first-class matches					-
† Minor matches					-
§ One-day internationals					-
All Matches					-

Return to New Zealand

JohannesburgQ

Because of his knee injury Chris Cairns returned to New Zealand at the end of the one-day series on 5 November 2000, along with one-day specialists Roger Twose, Chris Harris, Chris Nevin and Geoff Allott (who was in any case suffering a back injury and could not play further).

Scott Styris injured his left knee and Paul Wiseman injured an ankle, putting them both out of the tour and necessitating an early return home.

Andrew Penn returned home from South Africa on 30 November with a repetition of his side strain.

The team left South Africa from Johannesburg on approx 13 December 2000.

Time away from New Zealand 124 days

(12 August to approx 14 December)

Finances

Postscript

Andrew Penn and Dan Vettori were able to play for New Zealand in their summer home series 2000-01 but Scott Styris and Chris Cairns had to undergo knee surgery which kept them out of international cricket for six months.

Written account of the tour