Tour of  West Indies  2013-14             Captain : Brendon McCullum

63rd New Zealand Test tour

   (May - July 2014)

Third Test-playing tour of West Indies by New Zealand

(previously toured in summer 2012)

The New Zealanders in West Indies.

All New Zealand tours

Previous tour

Bangladesh 2013-14

Next tour

Pakistan 2014-15

Next tour of West Indies

not yet scheduled 

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen:  Peter Fulton, Hamish Rutherford

Middle-order batsmen Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCullum, Tom Latham

All-rounder:  Corey Anderson

Wicket-keepers:Luke Ronchi, B-J Watling .

Slow bowler: Ish Sodhi, Mark Craig

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

contracts 2013-14

Corey Anderson – ND

Trent Boult – ND

Doug Bracewell,

Dean Brownlie,

Grant Elliott,

Peter Fulton,

Martin Guptill – Auckland

Tom Latham – Canterbury

Mitchell McClenaghan – Auckland

Brendon McCullum – Otago

Nathan McCullum – Otago

Bruce Martin

Kyle Mills – Auckland

Colin Munro – Auckland

Hamish Rutherford.

Tim Southee – Northern

Ross Taylor – Central

Neil Wagner – Otago

BJ Watling – Northern

Kane Williamson – Northern

Provincial Representation :

  (Plunket Shield teams)

A – Auckland (0)

C – Canterbury (2)

CD - Central Districts (1)

ND - Northern Districts (6)

O – Otago (5)

W – Wellington (1)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(8 June 2014): 

  27 yrs   2 months.

ODI  member of the squad for one-day internationals and T/20 in West indies

⋄ contracted players (1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014)

Test Appearances made before the tour  

Tour Officials

Selectors

Bruce Edgar  (chairman, and national selection manager), Mike Hesson (coach)

Selection

Unavailable:  Daniel Vettori  (felt he was not up to the intensity of Test cricket) 

Not considered:  Doug Bracewell and Jesse Ryder were out late drinking during the Auckland Test in February, and were "yet to satisfy the selectors that they have their off-field issues under control".

Test Tour Party Announced  :  15 April 2014

Withdrawal:  Jeetan Patel (playing county cricket for Warwickshire) withdrew and Mark Craig replaced him

Not selected:   Dean Brownlie,  Martin Guptill; Mark Gillespie, the leading domestic wicket-taker.

Limited-overs squad announced:    

Time between selection and departure from New Zealand

  39 days

 (15 April  - 24 May)

Travel

 ?   Q o    Q   Montego Bay

Flew to the Caribbean on Saturday  24 May, arriving in two batches

The first group of nine tourists landed at the Sir Donald Sangster Airport, Montego Bay, Jamaica on Sunday and went directly to Trelawny to spend a week in preparations for the tour and play two matches at the Trelawny multi-purpose stadium. This group included Boult, Rutherford, Watling, Fulton, Wagner, Sodhi, Latham, Craig and Ronchi.

The second group pf tourists who had been playing in the Indian Premier League (Ross Taylor, Corey Anderson, Tim Southee) and Kane Williamson (playing for Yorkshire), and Jimmy Neesham, arrived on 1 June.

Brendon McCullum was given permission to miss the warm-up in order to play in the Champions League semi-final

Time spent in West Indies

   x days

(25 May  -

On-tour selection panel

Mike Hesson (coach),   Brendon McCullum (captain)

Reinforcements

M D Wilson,  a Jamaican club player,played for the New Zealanders in their first practice match at Trelawney

Fixtures/Results

⊕(T20)Twenty 20 international match

§  one-day international

Time spent in West Indies before First Test:

   14 days

 (25 May  - 8 June)

Test appearances on tour

3  -    Boult,  Craig,  Latham,  McCullum,  Neesham,  Southee,  Taylor,  Watling,  Williamson

2  -    Rutherford,  Sodhi

1  -    Fulton,  Wagner

0  -    Ronchi.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

∙  played for opposition

W won  L lost  D drawn  

N no result   A abandoned  

u unknown result

The New Zealanders played twelve men in their first practice match and 14 in their second.

New Zealand’s six previous Test tour results:

in Bangladesh 2013-14 (2 Tests)

 - drew 0-0

in England 2013 (2 Tests)

 - lost 0-2

in South Africa 2012-13 (2 Tests)

 - lost 0-2

in Sri Lanka 2012-13 (2 Tests)

 - drew 1-1

in India 2012-13 (2 Tests)

 - lost 0-2

in West Indies 2012  (2 Tests)

 - lost 0-2

Highlights

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Tour Summary

Return to New Zealand

   Q  Co

The New Zealand team arrived home early on Thursday morning 10 July at 6 am

Jimmy Neesham and Ross Taylor remained in the West Indies to take part in the Caribbean Premier League,

Time away from New Zealand

  47 days 

 (24 May - 10 July)

Finances

Written account of the tour

Postscript