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Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Australia 2001-02

 

Tour of Australia 2001-02          Captain: Shaun Pollock

 

 

31st official test tour

 

Seventh Test-playing tour of Australia by South Africa

 

    (December 2001 -

             January 2002)

 

 

 

 

Percy Sonn, President of South Africa’s United Cricket Board, demanded the inclusion of “a player of colour”, Justin Ontong, in the team for the third Test ahead of Jacques Rudolph

 

Other South African tours

 

Previous Tour

Zimbabwe 2001-02

 

Next tour

Bangladesh 2002-03

 

Next tour of Australia

2005-06

 

 

Members of the Test tour party (16)

 

 

Opening batsmen  Herschelle Gibbs, Gary Kirsten.

Middle-order batsmen  Boeta Dippenaar, Jacques Kallis, Neil McKenzie, Justin Ontong, Jacques Rudolph.

Wicket-keeper  Mark Boucher

All-rounders: Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusener

Spin bowlers  Claude Henderson, Justin Ontong

Fast bowlers  Allan Donald, Nantie Hayward, Steve Elworthy, Makhaya Ntini

 

 

 

 

 

M V Boucher

Br

24

WK       vice-captain

ODI

 

H H Dippenaar

FS

24

RHB

 

 

A A Donald

FS

35

RF

 

 

S Elworthy

No

36

RFM

 

 

H H Gibbs

WP

27

RHB  opener

 

 

M Hayward

EP

24

RF

 

 

C W Henderson

WP

29

SLA

 

 

J H Kallis

WP

25

RHB   RFM

 

 

G Kirsten

WP

33

LHB  opener   (OB)

 

 

L Klusener

KZN

30

LHB   RFM

 

 

N D McKenzie

No

25

RHB

 

 

M Ntini

Br

24

RFM

 

 

J L Ontong

Bo

21

OB

 

 

J A Rudolph

No

20

LHB

 

 

S M Pollock

KZN

28

RHB  RFM   captain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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Representation of teams:   

  

Bo - Boland (1)

Br - Border (2)

EP Eastern Province (1)

FS - Free State (2)

KZN - Kwa Zulu-Natal (2)

No - Northerns (3)

WP - Western Province (4)

 

  
 

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

 

(14 December 2001) :

       27 yrs  5 months

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

 

 

 

Team Officials

 

Ghulam Rajah

Team Manager

Graham Ford

Coach

Craig Smith

Physiotherapist

Corrie van Zyl

Assistant coach

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Rushdie Magiet (selection convener), …..

 

 

Selection

 

Unavailable :  Jonty Rhodes (for the Test tour)

Tour Party Announced:    23 November 2001

Not selected :   Darryl Cullinan.

Withdrawal:  Nicky Boje (patella tendinitis) failed a fitness test and replaced by another left-arm spinner, Claude Henderson

The 15-man squad was supplemented by Jonty Rhodes, Justin Kemp and Charl Langeveldt for the on-day series with three players being sent back to South Africa.

 

Time between selection and departure from South Africa

  7 days

(23 - 30 November 2001)

 

 

Travel

 

Left South Africa on Saturday 30 November 2001 and touched down in Perth on 2 December

 

Time spent in Australia

   x days

(2 December - 9 ? February)

 

 

On-tour selection panel

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

N Boje 

 

28

SLA

 

Boje, who had to withdraw after being originally selected, was called up again before the third Test at the same time that Klusener flew home on 31 December, though he returned for the one-day series.

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

ϯ Lilac Hill

ACB Chairman’s XI

Won 48 r

Perth

Western Australia

Drawn

ADELAIDE

AUSTRALIA  First Test

LOST 246 r

Sydney

New South Wales

Drawn

MELBOURNE

AUSTRALIA  Second Test

LOST 9 w

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA  Third Test

LOST 10 w

ϯ Adelaide

Australia A

Lost 5 w

§ Melbourne

Australia  (1st ODI)

Won 4 w

§ Hobart

New Zealand (2nd ODI)

Won 26 r

§ Brisbane

New Zealand (3rd ODI)

Lost 4 w

§ Brisbane

Australia (4th ODI)

Lost 27 r

§ Sydney

Australia (5th ODI)

Lost 8 w

§ Adelaide

New Zealand (6th ODI)

Won 93 r

§ Perth

New Zealand (7th ODI)

Won 67 r

§ Perth

Australia (8th ODI)

Lost 33 r

§ Melbourne

New Zealand (1st ODI final)

Won 8 w

§ Sydney

New Zealand (2nd ODI final)

Won 6 w

 

 

† not first-class

§  one-day international

 

Time spent in Australia before First Test: 

  12 days

(2 December - 14 December)

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   McKenzie (87) and Boucher (65) added 141 in a 7th wicket stand at Adelaide to keep South Africa in the match

   Kallis (65*) then played a lone hand batting for four hours but unable to save South Africa from defeat

   Kallis then scored 99 before being run out in the 2nd Test at Melbourne

   Nicky Boje returning from injury took 4-63 at Sydney, the best South African bowling figures of the series.

   Gary Kirsten’s 153 at Sydney included a second wicket partnership of 149 with Boeta Dippenaar (74)

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

  P

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

  3

0

3

0

-

Other first-class matches

  2

0

0

2

-

Minor matches

  2

1

1

0

-

§ One-day internationals

10

6

4

0

-

All Matches

17

7

8

2

-

 

 

 

 

 

Return to South Africa

 

Hayward, Henderson and Rudolph returned home at the end of the one-day series.

Lance Klusener flew from Sydney on New Years Eve to visit his wife who was due to give birth in January

Return was approx 9 Feb 2002  probably from Sydney

 

 

Time away from South Africa    x days  

(30 November to arrive home in S AfI)

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

 



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