Tour of New Zealand 1999-00             Captain: Steve Waugh

70th Test tour

Eighth Test-playing tour of New Zealand by Australia

(February -  April 2000)

Other Australian Tours

Previous tour

Sri Lanka/Zimbabwe 1999-00

Next tour

India 2000-01

Next tour of New Zealand

2004-05

Members of the Test tour party  (14)

Opening batsmen:  Greg Blewett, Michael Slater, Matthew Hayden.

Middle-order batsmen:,Justin Langer Damien Martyn, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh.

Wicket-keeper:  Adam Gilchrist

Spin bowlers: Shane Warne, Colin Miller

Fast bowlers:  Brett Lee,Glenn McGrath, Damien Fleming, Mike Kasprowicz.

State representation

   Pura Milk Cup teams *

N   New South Wales (5)

Q  Queensland (2)

S   South Australia (1)

T   Tasmania (1)

V   Victoria (2)

W  Western Australia (3)

* National Foods Limited sponsored Australian domestic first-class cricket midway through the 1999-00 season, renaming the Sheffield Shield competition as the Pura Milk Cup

Fleming, McGrath and Warne did not feature in the 1999-00 competition.

Average age of  team at  time of first Test match

(11 March 2000) 

   29 yrs  5 months

ODI -  member of the squad for National Bank Series one-day internationals

Test Appearances made before the tour

SR Waugh 125,  ME Waugh 100,  Warne 81,  McGrath 59,  Slater 59,  Blewett 44,  Langer 30,  Miller 11,  Hayden 7,  Martyn 7,  Gilchrist 6,  Lee 2.   Fleming  Kasprowicz

Team Officials

This was John Buchanan’s first Test tour as Australian coach He had spent five years coaching Queensland,  helping them to win their first domestic first-class title. He was appointed coach by the Australian Cricket Board in October 1999.

Selectors

Trevor Hohns (chairman),   Andrew Hilditch,  Allan Border,  Geoff Marsh.

Selection

Tour party announced:   4 ? February 2000

Withdrawal :  Ricky Ponting injured his ankle colliding with a boundary board. Matthew Hayden, already a member of the Test party, was added to the squad for the one-day International series. Ponting failed a fitness test on 1 March to join the side for the Tests and was replaced by Damien Martyn for the Test series.

Not selected / near miss :  Simon Katich (W).

Time between selection and departure from Australia       x days

(4? - 13? February

Travel

Sydney   Q 

First match starts 14 Feb

The Test squad players - Michael Slater, Greg Blewett, Justin Langer, Mike Kasprowitcz, Colin Miller - flew over to New Zealand as the one-day series ended.

Time spent in New Zealand      x days

(14 February - 4 April? )

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

Fixtures/Results

(WTS)   WestPac Trust Stadium     (BR)  Basin Reserve)

† not first-class

§  one-day international (National Bank Series)

Time spent in New Zealand before First Test: 

  x days

(12? February - 11 March)

Test appearances on tour

3  -   Gilchrist,  Langer,  Lee,  McGrath,  Martyn,  Miller,  Slater,  Warne,  ME Waugh,  SR Waugh

2  -   Blewett

1  -   Hayden

0  -   Fleming,  Kasprowicz.

Highlights

•   N

•   Shane Warne broke Dennis Lillee’s record as Australia’s greatest wicket-taker by capturing his 356th wicket at Eden Park (Auckland)

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Tour Summary

Return to Australia

Auckland    Q  Sydney?

Michael Bevan, Ian Harvey, Shane Lee and Andrew Symonds went home after the one-day series. Damien Martyn would have returned to Australia with them but was retained in the tour party for the Test series.

Last day’s play 3 April 2000

(12? February to 4? April? )

Finances

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Written accounts of the tour

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Postscript

The Australian Cricket Board stripped Shane Warne of the vice-captaincy, the post he held since January 1999, and on 4 August 2000 made Adam Gilchrist the new vice-captain after less than a year in the Test side. Gilchrist was not the selectors' recommendation of the national selectors; they wanted to retain Shane Warne but the Board over-ruled them.

Denis Rogers, the Chairman of ACB, confirmed it was a string of incidents rather than one single act that sealed Warne's fate -- most damning, accepting $A 5000 from an illegal bookmaker in Sri Lanka in 1994.