Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Australia 2001-02
Tour of
Australia 2001-02Captain: 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
Middle-order batsmen Boeta Dippenaar, Jacques Kallis, Neil
McKenzie, Justin Ontong, Jacques Rudolph.
Wicket-keeperMark
Boucher
All-rounders: Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusener
Spin bowlersClaude
Henderson, Justin Ontong
Fast bowlersAllan
Donald, Nantie Hayward, Steve Elworthy, Makhaya Ntini
M V
Boucher
Br
24
WKvice-captain
ODI
H H
Dippenaar
FS
24
RHB
A A
Donald
FS
35
RF
S Elworthy
No
36
RFM
H H
Gibbs
WP
27
RHBopener
M Hayward
EP
24
RF
C W Henderson
WP
29
SLA
J H
Kallis
WP
25
RHBRFM
G
Kirsten
WP
33
LHBopener(OB)
L
Klusener
KZN
30
LHBRFM
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
RHBRFMcaptain
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 ofteam at time of first Test match
(14 December 2001) :
27
yrs5
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
AUSTRALIAFirst Test
LOST 246 r
Sydney
New South Wales
Drawn
MELBOURNE
AUSTRALIASecond Test
LOST 9 w
SYDNEY
AUSTRALIAThird 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