Tour of  New Zealand 2000-01          Captain: Heath Streak

Zimbabwe’s thirteenth Test tour

Third Test-playing tour of New Zealand by Zimbabwe

  (December 2000-

              January 2001)

Note:  The tours of India and of New Zealand in 2000-01 ran consecutively and are really a single tour but, to allow greater detail, are described here as two separate tours.

Zimbabwe had lost its previous series against New Zealand on home turf but now won its first one-day series away from home by beating New Zealand 2-1.

Zimbabwe toured Australia as well as New Zealand

The absence of Neil Johnson and Murray Goodwin was felt more keenly than it had been in India where Flower batted so well.

Other Zimbabwe tours

Previous tour

India 2000-01

Next tour

Bangladesh 2001-02

Next tour of New Zealand

2011-12

Members of the Test tour party

 (16)

Opening batsmen:  Grant Flower, Gavin Rennie, Guy Whittall

Middle-order batsmen:  Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Dougie Marillier, Dirk  Viljoen

Wicket-keeper/ batsmen:Andy Flower, Trevor Madondo

Spin bowlers:  Brian Murphy

Fast bowlers:  Travis Friend, Gus Mackay, Mluleki Nkala, Henry Olonga, Bryan Strang, Heath Streak

District representation  

 Logan Cup teams

CFX - Academy (0)

Msh - Mashonaland (7)

Msh A - Mashonaland A (3)

Mat - Matabeleland (3)

Man - Manicaland (1)

Mid -  Midlands (2)

Average age of team at time of first Test match

(26 December 2000):

 26 yrs  6 months

Key to type:

RHB Right-handed bat

RM  Right arm medium-paced bowler

RFM  Right-arm fast medium

OB   Off break

WK  Wicket-keeper

ODI   Member of squad for the ODI

Test Appearances made before the tour

Campbell 47,   A Flower 47,  GW Flower 46,  Whittall 36,   Streak 35,  Strang 23,  Olonga 21,  Rennie 18,  Carlisle 13,  Murphy 6,  Nkala 4,  Madondo 2,  Viljoen 2,  Friend 0,  Mackay 0,  Marillier 0. 

Tour Officials

Selectors

Iain Butchart (convenor),  Maqbul Dudhia,  David Lake,  Ali Shah,  Denis Streak.

Selection

Unavailable:  Paul Strang (arm injury) had to return from Sharjah and continued his recuperation in Zimbabwe.

Tour Party Announced :  the same team as chosen for Indian tour on 31 October 2000.

One-day team announced:  9 January 2001.  The team was the same that played in New Zealand less Henry Olonga.

Time between selection and departure from Zimbabwe  

Not applicable here

Travel

Mumbai    Q    Christchurch

The Zimbabwe team had already played one-day tournaments in Sharjah and Kenya, before their tour of India which immediately preceded this visit to New Zealand.

They arrived in Christchurch on 15 December 2000 after 40 hours flying and delays from Australia, and asked for an extra warm-up game before the Boxing Day Test.

Andy Flower was a late arrival on tour because his wife Rebecca expecting their baby

Time spent in New Zealand

   53 days

(15 December -

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

Seamer Gus Mackay was added to the team for New Zealand. He flew out on Saturday 16 December to replace the off-form Henry Olonga, but Olonga played in New Zealand until the one-day series.

Olonga was sent home from Melbourne to Johannesburg.

Grant Flower and Dick Viljoen broke fingers in New Zealand, which prevented them from playing inthe Test match. Grant Flower who fractured his index finger while fielding against Canterbury stayed with the team but was not fit to play again until the tri-series against Australia and the West Indies beginning in Australia in January.

Fixtures/Results

§  ODI  Series

† not first-class

Time spent in New Zealand before First Test: 

    11 days

(15 December -  26 December)

Test appearances on tour

1  -   Campbell,  Carlisle,  A Flower,  Madondo,  Marillier,  Murphy,  Olonga,  Rennie,  Strang,  Streak,  Whittall.

0  -   G W Flower,  Friend,  Mackay,  Nkala,  Viljoen.

Match appearances

Highlights

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•   Carlisle and Flower shared a record partnership of 187 runs in the ODI at Perth but lost by 1 run

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Tour Summary

Return to Zimbabwe

Perth   Q    Harare

The last game in New Zealand was on 7 January

After the New Zealand section of the tour, the team flew to Brisbane to participate in the Carlton and United tri-series  (and were given a cruise on Jeff Thomson’s boat Queenslander, delayed until the evening because of a late flight from NZ).

The Zimbabweans flew home from Perth on 5 February 2001.

After a taxing 3½-month tour that started on the Indian sub-continent, they arrived back at Harare International Airport at midday on Tuesday 6 February.   Grant Flower, Viljoen and Madondo returned with broken fingers and Whittall, Streak and Murphy with knee injuries.

Heath Streak stayed in Australia to attend the ICC meeting with other Test captains and returned later.

Time away from Zimbabwe

    94 days  

(4 November to  6 February 2001

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript

John Ward’s summary was that “the gap between Andy Flower and Heath Streak on the one hand, and most of the rest, continues to widen. These two have by their incredibly hard work, determination and sheer professionalism made themselves into world-class cricketers. Most of the others, many of them very experienced by now, have scarcely moved on”.  (www.espncricinfo.com/allrounder/content/story/99153.htmlý)