Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Pakistan 1997-98

Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Pakistan 1997-98

Tour of Pakistan 1997-98 Captain: Hansie Cronje

22nd official test tour

Second Test-playing tour of Pakistan by South Africa

(October - November 1997)

Between October 1997, starting with this tour, and August 1998 South Africa played sixteen Test matches. They had not played anything but limited overs matches in Pakistan before.

Pakistan were also busy in their jubilee year, the anniversary of independence, and hosted a four nation one-day quadrangular tournament under floodlights, which the South Africans won.

As a preliminary there was a Test series in which they drew on a dead pitch at Rawalpindi and a saturated one at Sheikhupura, before snatching a startling victory at Faisalabad. Symcox twice rescued the South African innings with forceful batting and then captured three wickets to assist Pollock in dismissing Pakistan for only 92 runs.

Sheikhupura was granted a Test match but the town had no hotels for either the home side or the visiting team, who had to stay in Lahore and travel each day through traffic jams for at least three hours.

Other South African tours

Previous Tour

India 1996-97

Next tour

Australia 1997-98

Next tour of Pakistan

2003-04

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen Gary Kirsten, Andrew Hudson, Adam Bacher.

Middle-order batsmen Hansie Cronje, Daryl Cullinan, Jacques Kallis, Jonty Rhodes

Wicket-keepers Dave Ricahrdson.

Spin bowlers Pat Symcox, Paul Adams.

Fast bowlers Allan Donald, Brian McMillan, Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusener, Brett Schultz.

P R Adams	WP	20	SLA	ODI

A M Bacher	G	24	RHB opener	ODI

D J Cullinan	G	30	RHB	ODI

W J Cronje	FS	28	RHB RM captain	ODI

A A Donald	FS	31	RF	ODI

A C Hudson	N	32	RHB	ODI

J H Kallis	WP	21	RHB RFM

G Kirsten	WP	29	LHB opener vice-captain	ODI

L Klusener	N	26	LHB RFM	ODI

B M McMillan	WP	33	RHB RFM

S M Pollock	N	24	RHB RFM	ODI

J N Rhodes	N	28	RHB	ODI

D J Richardson	EP	38	WK	ODI

B N Schultz	WP	27	RF

P L Symcox	N	37	OB	ODI

Member of ODI squad only -			P S de Villiers	ODI

Representation of teams:

EP Eastern Province (1)

FS - Free State (2)

G - Gauteng (2)

N - Kwa Zulu Natal (5)

WP - Western Province (5)

Average age of team at time of first Test match

(6 October 1997) :

26 yrs 6 months

ODI Member of squad for the Wills Goldren Jubilee tournament one-day internationals

Test Appearances made before the tour

Richardson 37, Cronje 36, Donald 33, Hudson 32, McMillan 31, Kirsten 29, Rhodes 29, Cullinan 28, Pollock 11, Symcox 10, Adams 9, Schultz 8, Klusener 7, Bacher 5, Kallis 5, Boucher 0.

Team Officials

S K Reddy	Tour Manager
Ghulam Rajah	Assistant Manager
Bob Woolmer	Coach
Craig Smith	Physiotherapist
Paddy Upton	Exercise specialist
Dr Andre Killian	Doctor

Selectors

Peter Pollock (convenor of selectors),

Selection

Unavailable:

Tour Party Announced : 1997

Not selected :

Time between selection and departure from South Africa

x days

(selection to 25 September)

Travel

Following a four-month break since the end of last season the South Africans arranged practices in the middle at Bloemfontein and Durban, Departure from South Africa was on Thursday 25 September.

After a long flight, the team arrived at Karachi on 26 September 1997

Time spent in Pakistan

44 days

(26 September - 9 November)

On-tour selection panel

Bob Woolmer (coach), Hansie Cronje (captain), Gary Kirsten (vice-captain).

Reinforcements

Shultz had to return home for treatment because he tore a tendon under his left arm during throwing practice.

M V Boucher

ODI

Mark Boucher was called up for the tour party as a reinforcement after ‘keeper Dave Richardson pulled his left hamstring and was unfit for the second Test. Boucher left East London on Tuesday 14 October and arrived in Islamabad the next day, Wednesday, and immediately played as a wicket-keeper/batsman.

Jacques Kallis (appendicitis) and Allan Donald (pulled left quadricep) joined Richardson on the injured list.

Jacques Kallis was taken to hospital in Lahore with appendicitis and missed the rest of the tour.

For the one-day tournament, Fanie de Villiers joined the team on 24 October to cover for Schultz.

Fixtures/Results

a	Karachi	P C B Combined XI	Drawn
b	RAWALPINDI	PAKISTAN First Test	DRAWN
c	Peshawar	Allied Bank	Won 180 r
d	SHEIKHUPURA	PAKISTAN Second Test	DRAWN
e	FAISALABAD	PAKISTAN Third Test	WON 53 r
f	† Lahore	Lahore Gymkhana	?
g	§ Lahore	Pakistan (Quadrangular ODI)	Won 9 r
h	§ Lahore	West Indies (Quadrangular ODI)	Won 5 w
i	§ Lahore	Sri Lanka (Quadrangular ODI)	Won 66 r
j	§ Lahore	Sri Lanka (Quadrangular ODI final)	Won 4 w

† not first-class

§ one-day international

Time spent in Pakistan before First Test:

10 days

(26 September - 6 October)

Test appearances on tour

3 - Bacher, Cullinan, Cronje, Kirsten, McMillan, Pollock, Symcox.

2 - Adams, Donald, Klusener, Richardson

1 - Boucher, Kallis, Rhodes, Schultz.

0 - Hudson.

Match appearances

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j
P R Adams	x		x	T	T				o
A M Bacher	x	T	x	T	T
M V Boucher				T
D J Cullinan	x	T	x	T	T		o	o	o	o
W J Cronje	x	T	x	T	T		o	o	o	o
P L de Villiers							o	o	o	o
A A Donald		T			T		o	o		o
A C Hudson			x				o	o	o	o
J H Kallis	x	T	x
G Kirsten	x	T		T	T		o	o	o	o
L Klusener			x	T	T		o	o	o	o
B M McMillan	x	T	x	T	T
S M Pollock	x	T		T	T		o	o	o	o
J N Rhodes	x		x	T			o	o	o	o
D J Richardson	x	T	x		T		o	o	o	o
B N Schultz		T
P L Symcox	x	T	x	T	T		o	o	o	o

Highlights

• Gary Kirsten batted seven hours, seeking to assure a draw in the first Test match at Rawalpindi, but fell on 98.

• Adam Bacher (96) was also dismissed just short of a century in the next match at Sheikhupura , when he and Kirsten (56) made another century opening stand.

• Kirsten carried his bat through the innings at Faisalabad, scoring 100 not out, the first South African to do so since Jackie McGlew in 1961-62. Kirsten averaged 86 in the series.

• Shaun Pollock (5-37) and Pat Symcox (3-8) dismissed Pakistan for 92 to win the Third Test. Symcox had already scored 81 and 55 and was an easy choice as Man of the Match.

Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D	Aban
Test Matches	3	1	0	2	-
Other first-class matches	2	1	0	1	-
†Minor matches	1				-
§ One-day internationals	4	4	0	0	-
All Matches	10				-

Return to South Africa

Brett Schultz flew home from Rawalpindi injured after the first Test on Saturday 11 October. Kallis had to go into hospital in Lahore with appendicitis during the second Test match after which he was sent home early too. Then Brian McMillan, learning that his wife was seriously ill, urgently returned to South Africa on 27 October.

After the quadrangular tournament the team flew home from Lahore Airport on 9/10 ? November

Time away from South Africa 46 days

(25 September to 10 November

Finances

The United Cricket Board of South Africa paid the team a R 500 000 bonus as a reward for winning the 3-match series because so few teams do on the sub-continent; doubled the team's match fee of R11 250 (US$ 2345); and paid a bonus of R200 000 (US$42 000) for winning the quadrangular series