| Tour of West Indies 2001-02 Captain : Stephen Fleming | |
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| 44th official Test tour Fourth Test-playing tour of West Indies by New Zealand
(June-July 2002) | New
Zealand’s first Test victory in the Caribbean. New Zealand asked
to have rest instead of playing a three-day practice match before the Test
series began, as they had played so much cricket in the ODIs and on the tour
of Pakistan. The return of Shane Bond who
perfected his preparations for the tour in Darwin. F U R T H E
R D E T A I L S
O F T O U R I N P
R E P A R A T I O N | All New Zealand
tours Previous tour Pakistan 2001-02 Next tour Sri
Lanka 2002-03 Next tour of West
Indies 2012 | |
| Members of the Test
tour party (14) Opening
batsmen Lou Vincent, Mark
Richardson, Matthew Horne Middle-order
batsmen Stephen Fleming,
Craig McMillan, Scott Styris, Chris Harris, Nathan Astle Wicket-keepers Robbie Hart Spin
bowlers Daniel Vettori Fast
bowlers Shane Bond, Ian
Butler, Chris Martin, Daryl Tuffey
| N J
Astle | C | 30 | RHB RM | ODI | | S E
Bond | C | 27 | RF | ODI | | I G Butler | ND | 20 | RFM | ODI | | S P
Fleming | W | 29 | LHB captain | ODI | | C Z
Harris | C | 32 | LHB RM | ODI | | R G
Hart | ND | 27 | WK | | | M J
Horne | A | 31 | RHB | ODI | | C D
McMillan | C | 25 | RHB (RM) | ODI | | C S
Martin | C | 27 | RFM | | | M H Richardson | A | 31 | LHB opener | | | S B
Styris | ND | 26 | RHB RM | ODI | | D R
Tuffey | ND | 24 | RFM | ODI | | D L
Vettori | ND | 23 | SLA | ODI | | L
Vincent | A | 23 | RHB opener | ODI | | | Members
of the one-day squad only | M N
Hart | ODI | | P A
Hitchcock | ODI | | C J
Nevin | ODI | | | J P B
Oram | ODI |
| Representation of teams A - Auckland C - Canterbury CD - Central Districts ND - Northern Districts O - Otago W - Wellington Average age of team at time of first Test match (21 June 2002) : 27
yrs 3 months. ODI : part of the ODI squad | |
| Test Appearances
made before the tour | Fleming 69, Astle 53,
McMillan 40, Vettori 40, Horne 33,
Harris 21, Richardson 18, Martin 11,
Tuffey 9, Vincent 7, Bond 4,
Butler 2, Hart 1, Styris 0. | | |
| Team Officials | Jeff
Crowe | Team Manager | Denis
Aberhart | Coach | | Physiotherapist |
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| Selectors | Sir Richard Hadlee (chairman),
Ross Dykes, Brian McKechnie and Denis
Aberhart, | | |
| Selection | Unavailable : Dion Nash (retired, plagued by a
hip injury); Chris Cairns (his NZ
contract ran out in April so he was free to play for Nottinghamshire but in
the event his knee was not fit enough);
Andre Adams (stress fracture in the lumbar region of his back); Shayne O’Connor (rehabilitating from knee
operation). Announcement of the team
was delayed while the N Z Players Association negotiated a contract. Shane Bond, recovered from a stress fracture to his
foot, acclimatised for the tour in Darwin
with NZC’s development manager Ashley Ross, so he knew he would be in the
team. Test Tour Party Announced : 23 May 2002, with one place left open to
be decided during the one-day matches. Not selected:
Brooke Walker. A 15-man one-day squad was
named at the same time. The final place in the Test squad was
awarded on 14 June to Scott Styris, who stayed on after the Test series. | Time
between selection and departure from New Zealand 5 days (23
May to 28 May) | |
| Travel Auckland Q Kingston | Departure was on 28 May. The
one-day squad flew out from Auckland, breaking
their journey in Los Angeles, and arrived in Kingston, Jamaica
on ….. Bad weather confined the New Zealanders to indoor practice
sessions at the University of the West Indies. Robbie Hart, Chris Martin and Mark Richardson were
not part of the one-day squad. Like Bond, they also had a spell in Darwin, preparing to
join the team for the Test matches. | Time
spent in West Indies x
days (arrival
- 3 July) | |
| On-tour selection
panel | - | | |
| Reinforcements | None | | |
| Fixtures/Results | ϯ Kingston (FWG) | UWI Vice-Chancellor’s XI (50 overs) | Won 85 r | § Kingston (SP) | West Indies (1st ODI) | No result | § Gros Islet, St Lucia | West Indies (2nd ODI) | Lost 6 w | § Gros Islet, St Lucia | West Indies (3rd ODI) | Lost 7 w | § Port of Spain | West Indies (4th ODI) | Won 9 r | § Kingstown,
St Vincent | West Indies (5th ODI) | Lost 4 w | | three-day match | cancelled | BRIDGETOWN | WEST INDIES First Test | WON 204 r | ST GEORGE’S, GRENADA | WEST INDIES Second Test | DRAWN |
(FWG) Frank Worrell
Ground (SP) Sabina
Park | † not first-class §
one-day internationals Time spent in West Indies before First Test: x days (arrival - 21 June) | |
| Test appearances on
tour | 2 - Astle,
Bond, Butler,
Fleming, Harris, Hart,
McMillan, Richardson, Vettori,
Vincent 1 - Styris,
Tuffey. 0 - Horne,
Martin | | |
| Highlights | • Stephen Fleming scored 130 in the first Test • Shane Bond took 5-78 to bowl out West Indies
in the first Test at Bridgetown.
He followed it with 5-104 in the second Test. • Scott Styris scored 107 and 69 not out on
debut in the second Test • Richardson and Lou Vincent had partnerships
of 61 and 117 | | |
| Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Aban | Cancelled | Test Matches | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | - | Other first-class matches | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | † Minor matches | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | § One-day internationals | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | All Matches | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 |
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| Return to New Zealand ? Q ? | Jacob Oram, Chris Nevin,
Paul Hitchcock and Matthew Hart from the one-day squad were not required for
the Test matches. The Test squad departed on 3 July | Time
away from New Zealand x
days (28
May to July) | |
| Finances | | | |
| Postscript | Fulfilling International Cricket Council (ICC) requirements to
play a certain number of Tests every year meant that tours were scheduled later
in the season at the start of the tropical hurricane, and were partly to
blame for the West Indies Cricket Board’s huge financial losses. | | |