Tour of New Zealand 1999-00              Captain: Brian Lara

45th official Test tour

Eleventh official Test-playing tour by West Indies to New Zealand

    (November 1999 -

                  January 2000)

Malcolm Marshall died of cancer of the colon in October 1999.  Vivian Richards was now appointed coach, having stood in for Marshall when he was too ill to fulfil the role during the 1999 World Cup. The West Indies Cricket Board asked Clive Lloyd, whose contract ended in October, to continue as manager, again for this New Zealand tour only.

Courtney Walsh who needed twelve more victims to pass Kapil Dev as Test cricket's leading wicket taker, was unable to break the record on this occasion. He achieved the feat in March against Zimbabwe at Sabina Park.

The tour began well with Chanderpaul hitting a double century and Campbell a pair of centuries in the warm-up matches.  Griffith (114) and Campbell (170) then struck an opening partnership of 276 to launch the Test series well but from there onwards the tour went rapidly downhill.  West Indies added only 89 more runs in being bowled out, and were then dismissed for 97 in their second innings to lose the first Test.  West Indies also lost the second Test, collapsing again in their second innings, hampered by some dubious umpiring, before New Zealand went on to make a clean sweep of the five match one-day series.

Richards said Dr Rudi Webster, the sport psychologist who had given helpful advice during the home Test series against Australia, would have been an asset in New Zealand, but he was not included in the tour. At the end of the tour Brian Lara felt he needed a break from playing and Jimmy Adams took over the West Indian captaincy

Other West Indies tours

Previous tour

South Africa 1998-99

Next tour

England 2000

Next New Zealand tour

2005-06

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen:   Sherwin Campbell, Adrian Griffith, Daren Ganga.

Middle-order batsmen:  Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ricardo Powell, Wavell Hinds, Jimmy Adams.

Wicket-keeper:  Ridley Jacobs

Spin bowlers:  Dinanath RamnarineNehemiah Perry.

Fast bowlers:  Franklyn Rose, Reon King, Courtney Walsh, Mervyn Dillon, Pedro Collins.

Regional representation

:  

B - Barbados (3)

G  - Guyana (2)

Ja  - Jamaica (6)

L - Leeward Islands (1)

T - Trinidad & Tobago (4)

W  - Windward Islands (0)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(16 December 1999) :

27  yrs  4 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Walsh 110,  Lara 63,  Adams 37,  Chanderpaul 35,  Campbell 34,  Rose 11,  Jacobs 9,  Dillon 7,  Collins 3,  Ganga 3,  Griffith 3,  Perry 3,  Ramnarine 2,  King 1,  Hinds 0,  Powell 0.

Team Officials

Selectors

Michael Findlay (chairman),  Joey Carew,  Joel Garner and  Brian Lara (captain).

Selection

Franklyn Rose was summoned before the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) after the 1998-99 tour of South Africa and told to settle an outstanding hotel bill before he would be considered again for West Indies selection.

Brian Lara was reappointed captain on 9 November 1999.

Unavailable:  Corey Collymore (back injury),  Carl Hooper (announced he was quitting international cricket in April 1999, just before the World Cup

Tour Party Announced :  Thursday 11 November 1999.

Jimmy Adams was selected subject to a fitness test.

The squad would remain intact and no other players brought in for the one-day series.

Not selected :  Curtly Ambrose (the selectors felt he could not return to match readiness in time for the tour, after sustaining an elbow injury in the Champions Trophy in Sharjah in October)

Time between selection and departure from West Indies

  13 days

(11 November to 24 November)

Travel

BridgetownQ  London? Q   Christchurch

West Indies had played three limited-overs series in Singapore, Bangladesh and Sharjah, returning home briefly before going to New Zealand for two Test matches and five more one-day internationals

The team flew out from Grantley Adams Airport on Wednesday night, 24 November.  They arrived in Christchurch on Sunday 28 November and had a period of acclimatisation before the first match.

Time spent in New Zealand

   45 days

(28 November - 12 January)

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in New Zealand before First Test:   18days

(28 November - 16 December)

Test appearances on tour

2  -   Adams,  Campbell,  Chanderpaul,  Griffith,  Jacobs,  King,  Lara,  Rose,  Walsh.

1  -   Ganga,  Perry,  Powell,  Ramnarine.

0  -   Collins,  Dillon,  Hinds.

Highlights

•    Despite first innings opening partnership of 276 by Adrian Griffith and Sherwin Campbell at Hamilton, West Indies lost the match.

•    97 in the second innings was West Indies’ second lowest total made against New Zealand.

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Tour Summary

Return to West Indies

ChristchurchQ  ?  Q  

The team left Christchuch on 12 January 2000.

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Time away from West Indies    x days  

(24 November to January)