Tour of Australia & New Zealand 1963-64          Captain: Trevor Goddard
	Thirteenth official test tour   Fourth Test-playing tour of Australia by South Africa   Third Test-playing tour of New Zealand     (October 1963 - March 1964)	This was South Africa’s fourth and final tour of Australia before isolation because the 1971-72 tour had to be cancelled. This set of players maintained the high standard set eleven years before when South Africa had halved the series. Again South Africa responded to losing early in the series with an emphatic victory at Adelaide.  For the first time South Africa had batsmen with an attacking rather than defensive mindset to go with a pair of penetrate strike bowlers in Peter Pollock and Partridge. Yet three more Tests - one at Sydney and two in New Zealand - might have been won had South Africa been able to dismiss resistant tail-enders. This was the only Test touring party containing two pairs of brothers - Tony and David Pithey, and Peter and Grame Pollock.  In 1975 the New Zealanders’ World Cup touring squad included three Hadlees and two Howarths. In New Zealand all three Tests were drawn but tragedy overshadowed the latter part of the tour. The players wore black armbands in the second Test at Dunedin after Carlstein’s wife, Jackie, and three of his four children were killed in a traffic accident on the second day of the match. His two year-old daughter Marlene survived the head-on collison near Villiers, Orange Free State, but Sarah, an African servant girl accompanying them, was also killed. Flags were flown at half-mast and MCC sent a cable of commiseration.	Other South African tours     Previous Tour England 1960   Next tour England 1965       Next tour of Australia 1971-72  (cancelled) 1993-94
	Members of the Test tour party (15)     Opening batsmen   Eddie Barlow, Trevor Goddard, Tony Pithey Middle-order batsmen  Colin Bland, Graeme Pollock, Buster Farrer, Peter Carlstein, Peter van der Merwe Wicket-keepers  John Waite, Denis Lindsay Spin bowlers  Kelly Seymour, David Pithey Fast bowlers  Peter Pollock, Joe Partridge, Clive Halse	E J Barlow T 23 RHB  opener   RM   K C Bland R 25 RHB   P R Carlstein T 25 RHB   W S Farrer B 26 RHB   T L Goddard N 32 LHB opener  LM    captain   C G Halse N 28 RF   D T Lindsay NET 24 RHB   WK   J T Partridge R 30 RFM   A J Pithey R 30 RHB opener   D B Pithey R 27 OB   P M Pollock EP 22 RF   R G Pollock EP 19 LHB   M A Seymour WP 27 OB   P L van der Merwe WP 26 RHB   vice-captain   J H B Waite T 33 RHB       WK	Representation of teams:       Br - Border (1) EP Eastern Province (2) N - Natal (2) NET North-Eastern                  Transvaal (1) R - Rhodesia (4) T - Transvaal (3) WP - Western Province (2)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match   (6 December 1963) :        27 yrs  0 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Waite 41,  Goddard 20,  Carlstein 6,  Barlow 5,  Bland 5,  A J Pithey 5,  Farrer 3,  P M Pollck 3,  Halse 0,  Lindsay 0,  Partridge 0,  D B Pithey 0,  R G Pollock 0,  Seymour 0,  van der Merwe 0.
	Team Officials	Ken Viljoen Manager M MacLennan Scorer - baggage   Viljoen, then President of the S.A.C.A., was on his third cricket tour of Australia.
	Selectors	Arthur H Coy (Convenor of selectors),  D V Dyer,  A Melville and L Tuckett.
	Selection	Unavailable:  Neil Adcock;  Geoffrey Lawrence;  Jackie McGlew and Roy McLean had retired and said they were remaining available for business reasons. Even a brewing company’s offer to meet the cost of their wives accompanying them would not make them reconsider. In December 1962 Trevor Goddard told the selectors he could not spare the time from his new job to go to Australia but on 21 February 1963 the Chairman of Selectors announced that he had changed his mind. Goddard was confirmed as captain on 31 March 1963.  Tour Party Announced:  2 April 1963 Not selected:  Given that it was a 5½-month long tour the selectors asked for a sixteenth player - most likely Peter Dodds (Natal) - but the request was turned down.	Time between selection and departure from South Africa   195 days (2 April to 14 October)
	Travel	The team flew from Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, on 14 October 1963, making an overnight stop on Mauritius and flying on via the Cocos Islands to Perth.	Time spent in Australia and New Zealand     162 days (15 October - 25 March)
	On-tour selection panel	Goddard (captain),  van der Merwe  (vice-captain),  Waite,  Farrer,  Viljoen (non-voting chairman).
	Reinforcements	None In the final Test in Australia Halse tore his achillees tendon and Graeme Pollock broke his finger.
	Fixtures/Results	Perth Western Australia Won 5 w ϯ Cunderdin Western Australia Country XI Won 178 r Perth Combined XI Drawn Adelaide South Australia Lost 8 w ϯ Whyalla South Australia Country XI Won 10 w Melbourne An Australian XI Won 3 w Sydney New South Wales Won inns 101 r ϯ Ipswich Queensland Country XI Won inns 41 r Brisbane Queensland Lost inns 73 r ϯ Southport South Queensland Country XI Won 7 w BRISBANE AUSTRALIA  First Test DRAWN ϯ Toowomba Australian Universities Drawn ϯ Lismore New South Wales Country XI Won 121 r ϯ Benalla Victorian Country XI Won 10 w Launceston Tasmania Won inns 147 r ϯ Devonport Tasmanian Country XI Won 7 w Hobart Tasmania Combined XI Drawn ϯ Geelong Victorian Country XI Won 5 w MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA  Second Test LOST 8 w ϯ Parkes New South Wales Country XI Won 10 w SYDNEY AUSTRALIA  Third Test DRAWN Melbourne Victoria Drawn ϯ Warnambool Victorian Country XI Won 9 w ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA  Fourth Test WON 10 w ϯ Newcastle New South Wales Country XI Drawn ϯ Canberra Prime Minister’s XII Lost 1 w ϯ Cooma New South Wales Country XI Won 7 w SYDNEY AUSTRALIA  Fifth Test DRAWN       ϯ Hamilton Northern Districts Drawn ϯ New Plymouth New Zealand Colts XI Drawn WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND  First Test DRAWN DUNEDIN NEW ZEALAND  Second Test DRAWN Christchurch Canterbury Won inns 48 r ϯ Palmerston North Central Districts Drawn AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND  Third Test DRAWN	† not first-class   Time spent in Australia before First Test:  52 days (15 October - 6 December)
	Test appearances on tour	8  -  Barlow,  Goddard,  Partridge,  P Pollock,  7  -  Bland,  A J Pithey,  Waite 6  -  Lindsay,  D Pithey,  G Pollock 5  -  van der Merwe 4  -  Seymour 3  -  Farrer,  Halse 2  -  Carlstein.
	Highlights	•   Peter Pollock took 40 wickets in the eight Test matches, and Partridge took 38. Each bowler took 25 of his wickets in the Australian series. •   Barlow hit a century in each of the first two Tests (114 at Brisbane and 109 at Melbourne) before scoring a double century (201) at Adelaide. He aggregated 898 runs in the eight Tests on tour, averaging 64. •   19 year-old Graeme Pollock became the youngest South African to score a Test century (122 at Sydney) •   Pollock followed this up with 175 at Adelaide, contributing towards South Africa’s then highest total in Test cricket (595), which included their highest partnership to date of 341 between Barlow and Pollock. •   Joe Partridge recorded his best Test figures of 7-91 at Sydney.
	Tour Summary	P  W L  D Aban Test Matches   8   1 1   6 - Other first-class matches 10   6 1   3 - ϯ Minor matches 17 11 1   5 - All Matches 35 18 3 14 -
	Return to South Africa	Kelly Seymour left for his medical exams in South Africa the day after the fifth Test against Australia, while the rest of the team went from Sydney to Whenuapai Airport, Auckland, on 13 February.  Carlstein who was not taking part in the First Test match against New Zealand, returned to South Africa immediately but his flights were delayed and he arrived on 1 March, too late for the funerals. At the end of the New Zealand tour Barlow went to England to play league cricket The team left Auckland early on 19 March for Sydney. Halse went from Sydney to Brisbane where he enroilled on an agronomy course.  The team flew by way of Adelaide to Perth and left Australia on Wednesday 25 March. They landed at Louis Botha Airport, Durban, on the same day and flew on to Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg.	Time away from South Africa    163 days   (14 October to 25 March)
	Finances	Profit  was Rs 5000; more than £3000.
	Published accounts of the tour	“Bradman, Benaud and Goddard’s Cinderellas”  by R S Whitington. Reports of many incidents on the tour appearaed in Goddard’s biography.

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