Test Cricket Tours West Indies to New Zealand 2005-06

Test Cricket Tours - West Indies to New Zealand 2005-06

Tour of New Zealand 2005-06       Captain: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

55th West Indies Test tour

Eighth Test-playing tour of New Zealand by West Indies

    (February -March 2006)

Another catastrophic tour for West Indies. Brian Lara said “The mental side of every individual needs to be a lot stronger”
“advantageous positions in the one-dayers in Queenstown and Christchurch were not converted into victories

Other West Indies tours

Previous tour
Australia 2005-06

Next tour
Pakistan 2006-07

Next New Zealand tour
2009

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen Daren Ganga, Devon Smith, Chris Gayle.
Middle-order batsmen: Dwayne Smith, Shiv Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara, Runako Morton
All-rounder Dwayne Bravo (but he strained his side in the first match and could not bowl again)
Wicket-keepers:Denesh Ramdin
Spin bowlers: Rawl Lewis.
Fast bowlers: Ian Bradshaw, Fidel Edwards, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor.

I D R Bradshaw
B
31
LFM
ODI

D J Bravo
T
22
RHB         RFM
ODI

S Chanderpaul
G
31
LHB     captain
ODI

F H Edwards
B
24
RF
ODI

D Ganga
T
27
RHB opener
ODI

C H Gayle
Ja
26
LHB opener       OB
ODI

B C Lara
T
36
LHB

R N Lewis
W
31
LB
ODI

R S Morton
L
27
RHB
ODI

D B Powell
Ja
27
RFM

D Ramdin
T
20
WK
ODI

R R Sarwan
G
25
RHB     vice-captain
ODI

Dwayne R Smith
B
22
RHB        RM
ODI

Devon S Smith
W
25
LHB

J E Taylor
Ja
21
RF
ODI

Required only for the limited-overs matches
D C Butler
ODI

W W Hinds
ODI

Regional representation

B - Barbados (3)
G - Guyana (2)
Ja - Jamaica (3)
L - Leeward Islands (1)
T - Trinidad & Tobago (4)
W - Windward Islands (2)



Average age of team at time of first Test match
(9 March 2006) :
26 yrs 8 months

ODI Member of the one-day series squad

Test Appearances made before the tour

Lara 121, Chanderpaul 91, Sarwan 58, Gayle 54, Ganga 31, F Edwards 20, Devon Smith 16, Powell 15, Bravo 9, Dwayne Smith 8, Ramdin 5, Lewis 3, Taylor 3, Morton 2, Bradshaw 0.

Tour Officials

Tony Howard
Manager
Bennett King
Coach
Gus Logie
Assistant coach
Stephen Partridge
Physiotherapist
Imran Khan
Media relations officer

Selectors

Joey Carew (convenor), Bennett King (coach, who had a casting vote), Gordon Greenidge , Clyde Butts.

Selection

Unavailable: Corey Collymore (surgery to bone spur on the patella tendon of his right knee) ; Pedro Collins (through injury).
The selectors confirmed that Chanderpaul would remain captain for the New Zealand tour to counter radio reports that Daren Ganga would become captain
Tour Party Announced : 18 January 2006.
Not selected : Marlon Samuels, Tino Best, Jermaine Lawson (an enforced change of action significantly cut his pace).

Time between selection and departure from West Indies
x days
(18 January to 7 February)

Travel
? Q    Q   Auckland

Departure from West Indies was on 7 February 2006.
after a long drawn-out journey that took almost four days the West Indian team landed at Auckland International Airport on Friday 10 February
By his own request, Lara had missed the series of five one-day internationals and landed in Auckland on 3 March.

Time spent in New Zealand
   x days
(10 February - depart Host)

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

All-rounder Dwayne Bravo strained muscles in his left side in the opening match of the tour and played the rest of the tour solely as a batsman.
Vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan tore a muscle in his left thigh in the first Test and had to leave New Zealand on 14 March 2006.
Jerome Taylor, after being out for almost three years because of injury, pulled a hamstring in the first Test and did not return but was ruled out for the remainder of the series. Tino Best was expected to replace him but the selectors then decided he was not needed in New Zealand.

Fixtures/Results

a
⊕ Auckland
New Zealand (only T20)
Tied
b
§ Wellington
New Zealand (1st ODI)
Lost 81 r
c
§ Queenstown
New Zealand (2nd ODI)
Lost 3 w
d
§ Christchurch
New Zealand (3rd ODI)
Lost 21 r
e
§ Napier
New Zealand (4th ODI)
Lost 91 r
f
§ Auckland
New Zealand (5th ODI)
Won 3 w
g
AUCKLAND
NEW ZEALAND First Test
LOST 27 r
h
WELLINGTON
NEW ZEALAND Second Test
LOST 10 w
i
NAPIER
NEW ZEALAND Third Test
DRAWN

† not first-class
§ one-day international
⊕ Twenty20 international

Time spent in New Zealand before First Test:
    27 days
(10 February - 9 March)

Test appearances on tour

3 -   Bradshaw, Bravo, Chanderpaul, Edwards, Ganga, Gayle, Lara, Ramdin
2 -   Morton, Powell, D R Smith.
1 -   Lewis, Sarwan, Taylor
0 -   D S Smith.

Match appearances

T Test match
o one-day international
x other match
⊕ T/20 international

W won L lost D drawn T tied N no result   A abandoned   u unknown result

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
I D Bradshaw
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T
T
T
D J Bravo
⊕

o
o
T
T
T
D C Butler
⊕

o
o

S Chanderpaul
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T
T
T
F H Edwards

o
o

T
T
T
D Ganga
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T
T
T
C H Gayle
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T
T
T
W W Hinds
⊕
o
o
o
o
o

B C Lara

T
T
T
R N Lewis

o

o

o

T

R S Morton
⊕
o
o
o
o
o

T
T
D B Powell

T
T
D Ramdin
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T
T
T
R R Sarwan

o
o
o
o

T

D R Smith
⊕
o
o
o
o
o
T

T
D S Smith

J E Taylor
⊕

o

o
T

   RESULTS
T
L
L
L
L
W
L
L
D

Time from end of final Test until departure from N Z
   6 days (29 March

Highlights

•    Daren Ganga and Chris Gayle shared an opening stand of 148 at Auckland but West Indies lost the first Test
•
•

Tour Summary


P
W
L
D
T
Aban
Test Matches
3
0
2
1
-
-
Other first-class matches
0
-
-
-
-
-
Minor matches
0
-
-
-
-
-
One-day internationals
5
1
4
0
0
-
T/20 internationals
1
0
0
0
1
-
All Matches
9
1
6
1
1
-

Return to West Indies
Auckland? Q ? Q   Bridgetown

Ramnaresh Sarwan flew home on 14 March 2006. He flew home from Auckland while the team headed for Wellington for the second Test. Chanderpaul and Lara travelled to the United States and India respectively on business. The majority of the squad returned to Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Friday 31 March

Time away from West Indies
       52 days
(7 February - 31 March)

Finances

Published accounts of the tour

Postscript

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s captaincy record was as poor as most of those who had been tried in the position for West Indies: one win, eleven losses and three draws (in Test matches), and 2 wins and 15 defeats (in ODIs). He stood down from the captaincy, and on 26 April Brian Lara was reappointed as captain.
Several team members returned from the New Zealand tour with minor injuries. Players complained in May 2006 about training and that the physical loading being undertaken was too excessive but the physiotherapist said players had not been following their rehabilitation programmes properly, and individual attempts to go from complete rest into full training were the problem.