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Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Sri Lanka 2004

 

 

Tour of Sri Lanka 2004          Captain: Graeme Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

36th official Test tour

 

Third Test-playing tour of Sri Lanka by South Africa

 

 

 (July - September 2004)

 

 

 

The tour was not agreed until two months before the players had to depart from South Africa.

Klusener and Hayward were restored to a South African touring party after past disagreements with the United Cricket Board. Klusener had not been chosen for South Africa since the Australian tour of 2001-02. For each of them it was, however, their last tour.

Sri Lanka won both Test and one-day series. This was the first time that South Africa had lost a Test series to Sri Lanka.

The tourists came directly from the South African winter and a two-month lay off. The only warm-up game was not intense, and they were straight into facing Murali on a turning pitch at Galle. After losing the Test series 1-0, South Africa suffered a humiliating 5-0 whitewash in the one-day series.

The bowling lacked penetration and the batting failed to build long innings, except for once by Rudolph.  Pollock and Kallis apart, performances were ordinary.  The end result was discord among the team and coach Eric Simons, and within a few weeks of returning home, his contract, and that of team manager Tim Southey, were terminated in October 2004.

 

 

Other South African tours

 

Previous Tour

New Zealand 2003-04

 

Next tour

India 2004-05

 

 

Next tour of Sri Lanka

2006

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party (15)

 

 

 

Opening batsmen:   Graeme Smith Herschelle Gibbs

Middle-order batsmen  Boeta Dippenaar, Jacques Rudolph, Martin van Jaarsveld, Jacques Kallis.

Wicket-keeper   Mark Boucher

All-rounders  Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock.

Spin bowlers  Nicky Boje, Robin Peterson

Fast bowlers  Makhaya Ntini, Andre Nel, Nantie Hayward.

 

 

,

 

 

N Boje

FS

31

SLA   orthodox

ODI

 

M V Boucher

Br

27

WK    vice-captain

ODI

 

H H Dippenaar

FS

27

RHB

 

 

H H Gibbs

WP

30

RHB

ODI

 

M Hayward

EP

27

RF

 

 

J H Kallis

WP

28

RHB     RFM

ODI

 

L Klusener

KZN

32

LHB      RFM

ODI

 

A Nel

Es

27

RFM

(ODI)

 

M Ntini

Br

27

RF

ODI

 

R J Peterson

EP

25

SLA  orthodox

ODI

 

S M Pollock

KZN

31

RHB      RFM

ODI

 

J A Rudolph

No

23

LHB

ODI

 

G C Smith

WP

23

LHB  opener     (OB)    captain

ODI

 

M van Jaarsfield

No

30

RHB

ODI

 

 

Joined the tour party for the

A C Dawson

ODI

  one-day internationals

J P Duminy

ODI

 

C Langeveldt

ODI

 

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Provincial representation

  

Br - Border (2)

E  -  Easterns (1)

EP Eastern Province (2)

FS - Free State (2)

KZN - Kwa Zulu Natal (2)

No - Northerns (2)

WP - Western Province (3)

 

  

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(4 August 2004) :

       27 yrs  7 months

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Pollock 83,  Kallis 78,  Boucher 74,  Gibbs 59,  Klusener 48,  Ntini 45,  Smith 24,  Dippenaar 24,  Boje 23,  Hayward 14,  Rudolph 14,  van Jaarsveld 5,  Nel,  Peterson,  Puttick 0.

 

 

 

 

 

Team Officials

 

Goolam Rajah

Operations manager

Tim Southey

Team manager

Eric Simons

Coach

Shane Jabaar

Physiotherapist

Gustav Obermeyer

Computer Analyst

Gerald de Kock

Media Manager

Adrian le Roux

Fitness Trainer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

The Executive Committee of Cricket South Africa decided not to place all selection responsibilities on the coach. Omar Henry was retained as chairman although his committee was reduced from six members to four.

Omar Henry (convener),  Eric Simons (coach),  Gary Kirsten (high performance manager), Enver Mall.

 

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

Unavailable:  Gary Kirsten retired at the end of the 2003-04 New Zealand tour. He was appointed Cricket South  Africa’s High Performance Manager and joined the national selection panel. 

Nantie Hayward renounced his earlier withdrawal from international cricket.

Tour party announced:  30 June 2004.

Not selected:  Neil McKenzie, Paul Adams or Andrew Hall.

 

 

Time between selection and departure from South Africa

  27 days

(30 June to 27 July)

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

The team left South Africa on 26 July, arriving in Colombo the next day.  The management team held a press conference at the Taj Samudra Hotel on 29 July where the imposing 84 inch-high trophy from sponsors Janashakti was revealed to the press.

J-P Duminy and Alan Dawson were flown in to replace Dippenaar and Hayward for the one-dayers

 

Time spent in Sri Lanka

   35 days

(27 July - 1 September)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection panel

 

Graeme Smith (captain),  Eric Simons (coach),  ……..

 

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

A G Puttick

WP

33

LHB

 

On 25 July left-handed opener Andrew Puttick was added to the touring party as cover for Herschelle Gibbs who twisted his right ankle training at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria.  Gibbs missed the first Test.

On 19 August Charl Langeveldt was brought in to the one-day team when Andre Nel returned to South Africa early because of a back strain.  Langeveldt was playing in Zimbabwe, and journeyed to Colombo via Johannesburg and Dubai.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

Colombo (CCC)

Sri Lankan Board President’s XI *

Drawn

GALLE

SRI LANKA  First Test

DRAWN

COLOMBO (SSC)

SRI LANKA  Second Test

LOST 313 r

ϯ Moratuwa

Sri Lankan Board President’s XI

Abandoned

§ Colombo (RPS)

Sri Lanka  (1st ODI)

Lost 3 w

§ Colombo (RPS)

Sri Lanka  (2nd ODI)

Lost 37 r

§ Dambulla

Sri Lanka  (3rd ODI)

Lost 4 w

§ Dambulla

Sri Lanka  (4th ODI)

Lost 7 w

§ Colombo (SSC)

Sri Lanka  (5th ODI)

Lost 49 r

* 14 a side

 

† not first-class

§  one-day international

 

Time spent in Sri Lanka before First Test: 

8 days

(27 July - 4 August)

 

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

2  -   Boje,  Boucher,  Dippenaar,  Hayward,  Kallis,  Ntini,  Pollock,  Rudolph,  Smith,  van Jaarsveld

1  -   Gibbs,  Klusener.

0  -   Nel,  Peterson,  Puttick.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

    Jacques Rudolph completed a century (102) in the first Test at Galle

    Nicky Boje took 5-88, including the scalps of Jayawardene and Sangakkara

    Jacques Kallis made his thirteenth one-day century (101) in the final one-day match at SSC ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

 P

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

2

0

1

1

-

Other first-class matches

1

0

0

1

-

Minor matches

1

0

0

0

1

§ One-day internationals

5

0

5

0

-

All Matches

9

0

6

2

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to South Africa

 

Dippenaar and Hayward were not members of the one-day squad and returned home early.

Andre Nel failed to recover from a back spasm and returned home early on Thursday 19 August

The team left Colombo for home on 1 September 2004.

 

Time away from South Africa    37 days  

(27 July to 2 September)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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