Test Cricket Tours - New Zealand to Australia 1985-86
Tour of Australia
1985-86Captain : Jeremy
Coney
Twentieth official
Test tour.
Third Test-playingtour of Australia
by New Zealand
(October -
December 1985)
Before the tour there were five
weekend get-togethers and a three-day match (which is included in the tour
record below).
New
Zealand won a Test match in Australia for the first time and went on to its
first Test series victory against Australia. The success owed much
to new coach Glenn Turner’s experience used in planning and preparation.
Individually, the star performer was Richard Hadlee with 33 wickets in the
Test series but he upset team members when he refused to contribute his prize
of a new car to the communal fund
The tour lasted only until the
beginning of December but most members of the touring party returned to Australia in January to take part in the
Benson & Hedges Cup triangular series with India.
Spin
bowlersStephen Boock,
Vaughan Brown, John Bracewell (reinforcement).
Fast
bowlersEwen Chatfield,
Martin Snedden, Lance Cairns
S L
Boock
O
34
SLA
ODI
V R
Brown
C
25
LHBOB
B L Cairns
ND
36
RHBRM
E J
Chatfield
W
35
RFM
ODI
J V
Coney
W
33
RHB (RM)captain
ODI
J J
Crowe
A
27
RHB
ODI
M D
Crowe
CD
23
RHB
ODI
B A
Edgar
W
28
LHBopener
ODI
T J Franklin
A
23
RHBopener
R J
Hadlee
C
34
LHBRF
ODI
J F
Reid
A
29
RHB
ODI
I D S
Smith
CD
28
WK
M C
Snedden
A
26
RFM
ODI
J G
Wright
C
31
LHBopenervice-captain
ODI
B D
Blair (ND)
ODI
J G
Bracewell (A)
ODI
S R
Gillespie (A)
ODI
E B
McSweeney (W)
ODI
Provincial representation
A - Auckland (4)
C - Canterbury (3)
CD - Central Districts (2)
ND - Northern Districts (1)
O - Otago (1)
W - Wellington (3)
Average age ofteam at time of first Test match
(8 November 1985) :29
yrs9 months.
137
ODI returned to Australia to play in the Benson
& Hedges one-day series
Test Appearances
made before the tour
Hadlee 57, Cairns 42, Wright 41, Coney 40, Edgar 30, Boock 25, Smith 25, Chatfield 23, MD Crowe 23,JJ Crowe 20, Reid 13, Bracewell 13,Snedden 10, Franklin 1, Brown 0, McSweeney 0.
Team Officials
Dave J Elder
Manager
Glenn Turner
Cricket Adviser
Ian Smith
Assistant manager
Graham Hayhow /Doug Edwards *
Physiotherapist
*Edwards took over for the second part of
the tour. When injured Ian Smith stayed on in an administrative role.
Selectors
Frank Cameron (convenor),John GuyandDon Neely
Selection
Unavailable: None
Tour Party Announced : 11 August 1985.
Not selected:Geoff Howarth, John Bracewell, Derek Stirling (all members of the West Indies tour). Trevor Franklin’s return meant there
was no place for Ken Rutherford. Bracewell was called up later.
Time
between selection and departure from New Zealand66 days
(11
August to 16 October)
Travel
Q
There was a pre-tour practice match in Auckland.
The team flew from Auckland
to Brisbane
on 16 October 1985.The Crowe brothers
left three weeks before the rest of the New
Zealand team and stayed in Adelaide.
Ervin McSweeney joined the team when Ian Smith pulled a hamstring
jogging.
John Bracewell was called over before the Second Test when the
tour selectors wanted to play a third spin bowler at Sydney. He seized his chance taking five
wickets including Allan Border twice, and remained in the tour party.
•Martin
Crowe’s 242* against South Australia was the
highest score made by a New Zealander in Australia
•John Reid scored 108 in the first Test,
adding 224 with Martin Crowe (188), a New Zealand record partnership
for the 3rd wicket.
•Richard Hadlee cut through the Australian
batting at Brisbane
with 9-52
•With 6-71 in the second innings, Hadlee
returned 15-123 in thematch, the
eighth best return by any bowler in Test cricket. His 9-52 and 15-123 were
both New Zealand
record bowling performances
.Hadlee took three other five wicket hauls
and his 33 wickets are the second highest tally in any three-match Test
series
•John
Bracewell (83) and Stephen Boock (37) added 124 for the last wicket at Sydney.
•In
the one-day international at Adelaide Australia were bowled out for 70, their lowest
score in a ODI, and New
Zealand won by 206 runs, its highest
margin in a one-dayer.
Tour Summary
P
W
L
D / NR
Aban
Test Matches
3
2
1
0
-
Other first-class matches
4
1
0
3
-
† Minor matches
3
0
0
3
-
§ One-day internationals
10
3
6
1
-
All Matches
20
6
7
7
-
Return to New Zealand
Q
After a recovery day in Perth, the
players flew home on Friday evening 6 December 1985 to Auckland Airport
where they were met by the Sports Minister Mr Moore and hundreds of
enthusiastic fans..
Within a month the team was back in Australia for the Benson & Hedges
World Series Cup.