| Tour
of South Africa 1994-95
Captain : Ken Rutherford | |
| | | | |
| Thirty-first
official Test tour. Third Test-playing tour of South
Africa by New Zealand (October 1994 - January 1995) | A damning
report for New Zealand Cricket about the tour management was leaked to the
press and shed light on the disastrous tour.
Yet on the playing side things had started so well. At Johannesburg the New Zealanders set South Africa
a daunting target of 327. Victory came when the final seven South African
wickets fell before lunch for 39 runs to the bowling of Hart, with
career-best figures of 5-77, and Doull, with 4-33. However, New Zealand
celebrated their victory too early, because they then lost six one-day
internationals on the trot. The team
lost its intensity, rifts began to appear and it soon became a tour in
crisis. They lost the next two Test matches - becoming the first team since England in
1888 to lose a three-match series after winning the first Test. Geoff Howarth failed as the coach to maintain discipline and
motivation, eventually falling out with the team and opting out of problems
which were left to captain Ken Rutherford, troubled by his marriage falling
apart, and vice-captain Martin Crowe, troubled by his fitness. The tour party
split into cliques along provincial lines. Ill-discipline included late-night
drinking and a pot-smoking episode: Fleming, Hart and Nash were all fined after
admitting to smoking cannabis at a barbeque which the management failed to
head off. The players were accused of lacking pride in representing New Zealand. The New Zealanders returned home with the expectation that
Howarth and Rutherford would lose their jobs. Rutherford
had played too many reckless shots and been heavily fined for abusing the
umpire. Geoff Howarth resigned amid
speculation that he was about to be sacked, and Mike Sandlant stood down as
well while Rutherford was dismissed at the
end of the home season. | All New Zealand
tours Previous tour England 1994 Next tour India 1995-96 Next tour of South
Africa 2005-06 | |
| Members of the Test
tour party (16 + 1) Opening
batsmen Blair Hartland,
Bryan Young, Darrin Murray. Middle-order
batsmen Martin Crowe, Ken
Rutherford, Shane Thomson, Stephen Fleming Wicket-keepers Adam Parore, Lee Germon All-rounder Chris Harris Spin
bowlers Matthew Hart Fast
bowlers Richard de
Groen, Dion Nash, Chris Pringle, Simon
Doull, Murphy Su’a, [+ Danny Morrison (reinforcement)] | M D
Crowe | W | 32 | RHB
RM vice-captain | ODI
(M) | | R P deGroen | ND | 32 | RFM | ODI (W) (M) | | S B
Doull | ND | 25 | RFM | ODI (W) (M) | | S P
Fleming | C | 21 | LHB | ODI (W) (M) | | L K
Germon | C | 26 | second
WK | ODI
(M) | | C Z
Harris | C | 25 | LHB
RM | ODI (W) (M) | | M N
Hart | ND | 22 | SLA | ODI (W) | | B R
Hartland | C | 28 | RHB
opener | ODI (W) (M) | | D J Murray | C | 27 | RHB
opener | ODI (W) | | D J
Nash | ND | 23 | RFM | ODI (W) (M) | | A C
Parore | ND | 23 | RHB
WK | ODI (W) (M) | | C
Pringle | A | 26 | RFM | ODI (W) (M) | | K R Rutherford | O | 29 | RHB
captain | ODI (W) (M) | | M L
Su'a | A | 28 | LFM | ODI
(M) | | S A
Thomson | ND | 25 | RHB
(OB) | ODI (W) (M) | | B A
Young | ND | 30 | RHB
opener (WK) | ODI (W) (M) | | Played in one-day series only. | M W
Priest | ODI
(M) |
| Provincial representation A - Auckland (2) C - Canterbury (5) CD - Central Districts (0) ND - Northern Districts (7) O - Otago (1) W - Wellington (1) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (25 November 1994) : 26 yrs 9
months. ODI played in (W) Wills World series in India (M) Mandela Trophy in South
Africa. | |
| Test Appearances
made before the tour | Crowe 70, Rutherford 48, Morrison 35, Parore 12,
Pringle 11, Su’a 11, Thomson 11,
Hartland 9, Young 8, Nash 6,
Doull 6, Hart 6, Harris 5,
de Groen 4, Fleming 4, Priest 1,
Murray 0, Germon 0 | | |
| Team Officials | Murray Sandlant | Team
Manager | Geoff
Howarth | Coach | Mark
Plummer | Physiotherapist |
| | |
| Selectors | Ross Dykes (convenor), Bevan Congdon, Mike Shrimpton. | | |
| Selection | On 10 August 1994 Ken Rutherford
was made captain for the tours of India
and South Africa.
It seemed doubtful that Geoff
Howarth would continue as coach but he was eventually retained. Unavailable :
Chris Cairns and Danny Morrison (both injured); Martin Crowe said he was available for the
South African tour but asked to be excused from the four one-dayers in India
as his knee needed time to recover. Tour Party Announced : 4 October 1994. Not selected: Mark Greatbatch (owing to lack of form). | Time
between selection and departure from New Zealand 18 days (4
October to 22 October) | |
| Travel Auckland? QNewDelhi Q Johannesburg | The New Zealand
team departed from Aucklandon Saturday 22 October 1994 The New Zealanders came into the Wills World Series in
India
(1st match 26 October 1994) straight from a three-month winter break. They flew to South
Africa immediately after the triangular one-day series
in New Delhi The first New Zealand
team to tour South Africa
since John Reid's 1961-62 side was welcomed at Jan
Smuts Airport,
Johannesburg,
by UCB Managing Director Ali Bacher on Friday 4 November 1994. Martin Crowe was already in South Africa
where he was joined by the touring party after having more time to recuperate
from his knee operation. The team had several days of net practice before their
first game. | Time
spent in South Africa x days (4
November - depart Host) | |
| On-tour selection
panel | Ken Rutherford (captain),
Geoff Howarth (coach), Martin Crowe (vice-captain). Mike Sandlant and physio Mark Plummer also attended,
without voting. | | |
| Reinforcements ADDED ▷ Morrison ◁ W/D Nash | Mark Priest joined the tour party for the Mandela Trophy
one-day international series. Danny Morrison, now fit again, was called in after Dion Nash suffered a side injury. (Nash
did not play after 18 Dec in East London but
was still among the tour party in the events at Paarl). Morrison played in
the last two Tests. | | |
| Fixtures/Results | § Margao, Goa | West
Indies(1st Wills
World Series ODI) | No result | § Baroda | India(2nd Wills World
Series ODI) | Lost 7 w | § Guwahati | West
Indies(3rd Wills
World Series ODI) | Lost 135 r | § Delhi | India(4th Wills World
Series ODI) | Lost 107 r | | | | ϯ Randjesfontein | Nicky Oppenheimer's XI (1-day) | Drawn | Verwoerdburg | Northern
Transvaal | Drawn | Kimberley | Griqualand West | Won 23 r | Bloemfontein | Orange Free State | Lost 2 w | JOHANNESBURG | SOUTH
AFRICA
First Test | WON 137 r | ϯ Soweto | Transvaal Invitation XI (50 overs) | Won 9 r | ϯ Johannesburg | Transvaal(50 overs) | Lost 8 w | § Cape Town | South Africa(Mandela Trophy -
1st ODI) | Lost 69 r | § Bloemfontein | Sri Lanka (Mandela Trophy - 2nd ODI) | abandoned | §
Verwoerdburg | South Africa (Mandela Trophy - 3rd ODI) | Lost 81 r | § Port Elizabeth | Pakistan (Mandela Trophy - 4th ODI) | Lost 5 w | § East
London | Sri Lanka (Mandela Trophy - 5th ODI) | Lost 5 w | § East
London | Pakistan (Mandela Trophy - 6th ODI) | Lost 5 w | Paarl | Boland
* | Drawn | DURBAN | SOUTH
AFRICA
Second Test | LOST 8 w | CAPE
TOWN | SOUTH
AFRICA
Third Test | LOST 7 w |
* The match at Paarl was abandoned because of
a dangerous pitch after 22 wickets fell on the first day. | † not first-class §
one-day international (Wills World Series in India and Mandela Quadrangular in South Africa) Time spent in South Africa before First
Test: 21 days (4 November - 25 November) | |
| Test appearances on
tour | 3 - Crowe,
Doull, Fleming, Hart,
Murray, Parore, Rutherford,
Thomson, Young. 2 - Morrison,
Pringle. 1 - de
Groen, Nash. 0 - Germon, Harris,
Hartland 0, Priest, Su’a. | | |
| Highlights | • Simon
Doull helped bowl New
Zealand to a famous victory with 4-32 in
the 2nd innings. • Matthew Hart also took 5-77 to bowl South Africa out for 189 when chasing 327 at Johannesburg • • | | |
| Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D/NR | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | Other first-class matches | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | † Minor matches | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | § One-day internationals in South
Africa Wills World Series in India | 6 4 | 0 0 | 5 3 | 0 1 | 1 - | All Matches | 20 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 |
| | |
| Return to New Zealand Johannesburg Q Wellington | The touring party left South Africa on ….. (last match ends 6 Jan) and arrived home in Wellington on Monday 9 January 1995. | Time
away from New Zealand 78
days (23
October to 9 January) | |
| Finances | | | |
| Tour accounts | There is no tour book but lengthy accounts are found in several
books: “A Hell
of a Way to Make a Living” (1995) Ken Rutherford & Chris Mirams [Hodder
Moa] “Out on
a Limb – My own story” (1995) Martin Crowe [Raupo Publishing / Reed] “Save
the Last Ball for Me” (1998) Chris Pringle [Celebrity Books] “Stirred
but not Shaken” (1998)
by Geoff Howarth /Ian Hepenstall [Hodder Moa Beckett] “Stephen
Fleming, Balance of Power” (2005) by Richard Boock [Hodder &
Stoughton] | | |
| Postscript | Geoff Howarth resigned on 17 January, following speculation that he was to be sacked. New Zealand Cricket would not let the pot-smoking offences rest
at a $200 on-tour fine but launched an official enquiry. Hart, Fleming and
Nash were suspended for three matches; NZC were embarrassed when the fact
that other players were involved but not punished came to light. | | |