International cricket tour
The South Africa national cricket team toured New Zealand in February and March 1964 and played a three-match Test series against the New Zealand national cricket team . All three matches were drawn. Prior to this series, the South Africans had just played a five-Test series in Australia m, which was drawn 1–1.
South African team
Kelly Seymour , who had been with the team in Australia, returned to South Africa before the New Zealand leg of the tour to study for his medical exams. Graeme Pollock and Clive Halse were suffering from injuries, and Peter Carlstein returned to South Africa during the First Test when he received news that his wife and three of their four children had been killed in a car crash.[ 1] For much of the tour only eleven players were available to play.
The manager was Ken Viljoen .
Test series summary
First Test
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
23 February was taken as a rest day.
SG Gedye and JT Ward (both NZ) made their Test debuts.
Second Test
28 February–3 March 1964 (4–day match)
Scorecard
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
1 March was taken as a rest day.
WP Bradburn (NZ) made his Test debut.
South Africa were set 65 to win in 27 minutes.
Third Test
New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
15 March was taken as a rest day.
RS Cunis (NZ) made his Test debut.
New Zealand were set 309 to win in 313 minutes. The last 13 minutes of play were lost to rain.
References
^ Colin Bryden, All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story , Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 83–85.
External links
Further reading
Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985 , Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 330–34
Peter Pollock , The Thirty Tests , Don Nelson, Cape Town, 1978, pp. 43–47
R.S. Whitington , Bradman, Benaud and Goddard's Cinderellas , Rigby, 1964, pp. 221–37
Wisden 1965, pp. 838–42
Colin Bryden, All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story , Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 83–86
International cricket tours of New Zealand
Test and LOI tours
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