Tour of New Zealand 2012-13                      Captain :  Alastair Cook           

England’s 103rd Test tour

  (January - March 2013)

18th Test-playing tour of New Zealand by England

  (previous tour 2007-08)

England had played a Test series against India before Christmas, winning 2 -1 and drawing the two match Twenty20 series.  On the way to New Zealand to begin the main tour after New Year, they returned to India and were beaten 3-2 in a five match ODI series before flying on to Auckland.

After a narrow defeat in the warm-up game (a proper first-class fixture for a change), England were bowled out cheaply and New Zealand took a lead of 273, but Nick Compton’s seven-hour defiance staved off defeat. Rain had taken much time out of the match as it did at Wellington, and a placid pitch also helped New Zealand on this occasion to save the match.

All-square coming to Auckland for the final match, it was England’s turn to bat long enough (143 tense overs) to avoid defeat. Standing at 90 for 4 with a full day’s play ahead of them, Prior’s assured century was leading England to safety until the ninth wicket went down with 20 minutes still to go, but he and Panesar held out with one wicket to spare.

Other England tours

Previous Test tour

India 2012-13

Next Test tour

Australia 2013-14

Next tour of New Zealand

2017-18

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen:   Alastair Cook, Nick Compton

Middle-order batsmen Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow

Wicket-keeper: Matthew Prior.

Slow bowlers: Monty Panesar, James Tredwell

Fast bowlers: James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Graham Onions, Chris Woakes.

⋄  On 7 September 2012 the following were awarded full central ECB contracts: James Anderson, Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook, Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott.

Pietersen was awarded a full central contract on 9 January. Others were awarded incremental contracts:

Johnny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler, Craig Kieswetter, Graham Onions, Nick Compton, Samit Patel, Jade Dernbach, James Tredwell, Joe Root.

County representation:

Dm - Durham (1)

Ex  -  Essex (1)

Kt  -  Kent (1)

La - Lancashire (1)

Mx - Middlesex (1)

Nt - Nottinghamshire (1)

Sm - Somerset (1)

Sy - Surrey (1)

Sx - Sussex (2)

Wk - Warwickshire (3)

Yo - Yorkshire (2)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

  (6 March 2013): 

    28 yrs  5 months.

ODI (I) - one-day international squad in India 

ODI (N) - one-day international squad in New Zealand 

T20 - Twenty20 squad in New Zealand

Test Appearances made before the tour

Pietersen 92,  Cook 87,  Bell 83,  Anderson 77,  Prior 62,  Broad 52,  Panesar 45,  Trott 38,  Finn 17,  Onions 8, Bairstow 5,  Compton 4,  Root 1  Tredwell, 1,  Woakes 0.

Tour Officials

Selectors

Geoff Miller (national selector),  Andy Flower (team director),  Ashley Giles,  James Whitaker

Selection

Not considered:  Tim Bresnan (requiring elbow surgery).

Limited-overs squads announced:  22 December 2012.

Test Tour Party Announced : 23 January 2013.

Not selected:  England omitted Kevin Pietersen and Craig Kieswetter from their T20 and one-day squads in New Zealand.  Eoin Morgan and Samit Patel were in the one-day squads but not the Test side.

Withdrawn: Jonny Bairstow withdrew from the one-day tour of India owing to a family illness, and was replaced by Joe Root.

Time between selection and departure from England

   11   days

(ODIs: 22 December - 2 January)

(Tests: 23 January -

Travel

London  Q  Mumbai   Q  Auckland

The team arrived in India on 3 January for a one-day series.

They travelled direct from India following the final ODI , and arrived in Auckland late on Tuesday 29 January.

Stuart Broad came direct from England (where he had been recovering from a heel injury) because his departure from London Heathrow was delayed by snow and freezing conditions. He arrived in Auckland a few hours before the team. 

Five players not taking part in the ODI series (Compton, Onions, Panesar, Pietersen, Prior) arrived in New Zealand for a training camp led by England team director Andy Flower ahead of the first-class match against a New Zealand XI.

Time spent in New Zealand

    days

(29 January - 

On-tour selection panel

-

Reinforcements

Joe Root replaced Jonny Bairstow in the one-day side in India.

Fixtures/Results

Å  T20 international

§  one-day international

† not first-class

Time spent in New Zealand before First Test:   36 days

(29 January -   6 March)

Test appearances on tour

3  -   Anderson,  Bell,  Broad,  Compton,  Cook,  Finn,  Panesar,  Prior,  Root,  Trott.

2  -   Pietersen

1  -   Bairstow

0  -   Onions,  Tredwell,  Woakes.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

 W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   A abandoned

u unknown result

Highlights

•  England were 293 behind on first innings at Dunedin but Nick Compton scored 117 as England raliied to 421-6.

•  Compton added a further hundred and, in partnership with Jonathan Trott (121), made 263 for the 2nd wicket.

•  Stuart Broad took 6-51 to make New Zealand follow-on at Wellington

•  Steven Finn’s 6-125 at Auckland

•  Matt Prior was England’s leading run-scorer with 73 and 110 not out at Auckland.

•  Stuart Broad set the record for the longest time spent at the crease (103 minutes) without scoring a run

Tour Summary

F  Fixtures   W  Won   L  Lost   D Drawn   T  Tied  Canc  Cancelled  Aban  abandoned

Return to England

Auckland Q  London

Pietersen returned to England early for investigations on a knee problem and missed the Auckland Test.

The Test team flew back from Auckland on c Wednesday 27 March 2013.

Time away from England

  x days  

( January -  March )

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript

The one-day series in India was the first under new ICC rules making it compulsory for teams to have five fielders inside the circle and to use two new balls from each end.

Other Test tours in 2010-11

Acknowledgements

To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive (Gale Group);  Jamaica Gleanor archive;  National Library of Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ.

From former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online:  The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.

cricketweb.net;  ESPN cricinfo;  cricket archive; www.cricketcountry; www.coverpoint

Magazines/periodicals including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.

Men In White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)

Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s Ground)                     ALL CONTENTS OF THE TEST-CRICKET-TOURS.CO.UK WEBSITE  ARE COPYRIGHT