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Tour of England 1973 Captain : Bev Congdon
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Eleventh New
Zealand Test tour.
(April - July 1973)
Seventh Test-playing
tour of England by New Zealand
(previous
tour 1969)
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Glenn Turner scored 1000 first-class runs in England before the
end of May, a feat not accomplished since Bill Edrich
did it before the Second World War.
The vice-captain's feat attracted publicity to the New Zealanders'
tour but thereafter Turner made very few runs in the Test matches.
The other major batsman, the captain Bev Congdon, made two
large scores in the Test series, centuries which nearly saved one Test
match and nearly won another.
New Zealand were set 479 to win at
Trent Bridge and fell only 38 runs short of this huge target. They almost
achieved their goal of winning a Test match in England for the first time
when they gained a first innings lead of nearly 300 at Lord’s
but the match was left drawn. The tourists succumbed in the other Test
match to the greater all-round strength of Ray Illingworth's efficient
England side, and so lost both the Test series and the rain-affected
one-day series.
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All New Zealand
tours
Previous tour
West Indies 1971-72
Next tour
Australia 1973-74
Next tour of
England
1978
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Members of the
Test tour party (15)
Opening batsmen John Parker, Rodney Redmond, Glenn Turner
Middle-order Robert Anderson, Mark Burgess, Bevan Congdon, Brian Hastings
Wicket-keeper: Ken Wadsworth.
Spin bowlers: Eric Gillott, Hedley Howarth, Vic Pollard.
Fast bowlers: Dick Collinge, Dayle Hadlee, Richard Hadlee, Bruce
Taylor.
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R W Anderson
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24
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RHB
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M G Burgess
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A
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28
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RHB
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R O Collinge
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27
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LF
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B E Congdon
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35
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RHB
RM captain
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E K Gillott
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ND
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22
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SLA orthodox
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D R Hadlee
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C
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25
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RMF
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R J Hadlee
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C
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21
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RFM
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B F Hastings
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33
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RHB
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H J Howarth
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SLA
orthodox
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J M Parker
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ND
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RHB
opener reserve WK
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V Pollard
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RHB
OB
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R E Redmond
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LHB opener
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B R Taylor
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LHB
RFM
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G M Turner
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RHB opener
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K J Wadsworth
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WK
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Provincial
representation:
(Plunket Shield
teams)
A - Auckland (3)
C - Canterbury (5)
CD - Central Districts (0)
ND - Northern Districts (2)
O - Otago (3)
W - Wellington (2)
Average age of
team at time of first Test match
(7 June 1973) :
27 yrs 3 months.
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Test
Appearances made before the tour
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Congdon 39,
Pollard 29, Taylor 27, Burgess
23, Turner 19, Wadsworth 19, Hastings 19, Howarth
19, Collinge
17, D R Hadlee
10, R J Hadless
1, Parker 1, Redmond 1, Anderson 0, Gillott 0.
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Tour Officials
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J C â€Jack’ Saunders
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Manager
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Ian Walter
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Scorer
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Tony Smith
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Driver - baggage
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Dick Brittenden, the NZ PA reporter, again accompanied the
team throughout the tour.
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Selectors
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Ken Deas
(convenor), Frank
Cameron, Frank Mooney.
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Selection
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The
treasurer of the New Zealand Cricket Council, Jack Saunders, was appointed
manager in October 1972.
Unavailable : Graham Dowling (back
injury).
Tour Party Announced : 4 March 1973.
Not selected: Terry Jarvis, David O’Sullivan, John Morrison (the choices of Anderson
and Gillott caused surprise)
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Time between
selection and departure from New Zealand
39 days
(4 March to 12
April)
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Travel
Christchurch Q London
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Despite hold-ups
to air traffic at Harewood Airport, Christchurch,
caused by a fireman's strike at the airport between 4 and 13 April, the
tourists were able to get away on 12 April 1973.
They landed at
Heathrow Airport, London, on 16 April.
Ken Wadsworth,
who had left without tablets to treat his cartilage condition, missed some
early practices with a sore right knee.
Bruce Taylor’s departure from New
Zealand was delayed by business. He arrived at Heathrow Airport on 2 May
when the plane, a Boeing 707, made an emergency landing owing to faulty
brakes.
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Time spent in
England
102 days
(16 April - 26
July)
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On-tour
selection panel
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Bev Congdon (captain), Glenn Turner (vice-captain), Jack Saunders (manager).
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Reinforcements
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The scorer Ian
Walter played in a match in Scotland.
Geoff Howarth missed matches with a chipped ankle bone. Glenn Turner missed only two matches, in
one of which he had a dislocated finger. Hedley Howarth
broke a bone in his ankle practising for the M.C.C. match at Lord’s and was unable to play for nearly a month
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Fixtures/Results
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ϯ Kennington Oval
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London New Zealand CC (55 overs)
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Won 61 r
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Eastbourne
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Derrick Robins XI
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Drawn
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Worcester
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Drawn
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Canterbury
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TRENT BRIDGE
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ENGLAND
First Test
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LOST 38 r
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Cambridge
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Oxford & Cambridge Universities
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Drawn
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Edgbaston
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Second Test
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Kennington Oval
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Surrey
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HEADINGLEY
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ENGLAND
Third Test
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LOST inns 1 r
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Drawn
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Essex
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Won inns 18 r
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§ Swansea
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England
(1st ODI)
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Lost 7 w
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§ Old Trafford
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England
(2nd ODI)
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No result
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†not first-class
§ one-day internationals
(Prudential Trophy)
Time
spent in England before First Test:
53 days
(16 April - 7 June)
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Test
appearances on tour
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3 - Burgess, Collinge, Congdon,
D R Hadlee, Hastings,
Parker, Pollard, Taylor, Turner, Wadsworth.
2 - Howarth.
1 - R J Hadlee.
0 -
Anderson, Gillott, Redmond.
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Match
appearances
T Test match
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international
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played for opposition
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New Zealand’s six previous Test tour results:
in West Indies
1971-72 (5 Tests)
- drew 0-0
in India &
Pakistan 1969-70 (6 Tests)
- drew 1-1 and won 1-0
in England
1969 (3 Tests)
- lost 0-2
in England
1965 (3 Tests)
- lost 0-3
in India &
Pakistan 1964-65 (7 Tests)
- lost 0-1, lost 0-2
in South
Africa 1961-62 (5 Tests)
- drew 2-2
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Highlights
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• Glenn Turner scored
1000 runs in first-class matches before the end of May.
• Dick Collinge took 6-52 in an early tour match against
Worcestershire
• Bevan Congdon (176)
and Vic Pollard (116) shared a partnership of 177 at Trent Bridge
• The New Zealand
second innings of 440 was the second highest scored in the 4th innings of a
Test match.
• Hedley Howarth returned after his ankle injury taking ten
wickets for 145 against Combined Universities.
• Bevan Congdown scored his second successive century of 175 at
Lord’s where Burgess (105) and Pollard (105)
also scored centuries in New Zealand’s record
total of 551-9 declared
• Dick Collinge who narrowly passed a fitness test to play,
captured 5-74 in the third Test at Headingley
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Tour Summary
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W
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Aban
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Test Matches
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3
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0
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Other
first-class matches
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Minor matches
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One-day
internationals
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All Matches
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Won L Lost
T Tied D Drawn Canc
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Aban abandoned
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Return to New
Zealand
London Q Auckland
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At the end of the tour Glenn Turner and John Parker remained in
England, being professional cricketers with Worcestershire. Turner married Sukinder Kaur Gill, 21, at Brentford on 24 July. They
subsequently returned to live in New Zealand where she later served as
Mayor of Dunedin 1995-2004 and became DNZM.
The team flew out from London on 26 July 1973. Howarth and
five others arrived in Auckland on Sunday 29 July. The manager Mr Saunders, Congdon and six
South Island players arrived in Christchurch later that day.
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Time away from
New Zealand 109 days
(12 April to 29
July)
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Finances
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Written
accounts of the tour
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“The New Zealand
Tour to England 1973” by David Parsons (The Cricket Publishing Company, 2013)
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Postcript
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Two New
Zealanders, Bruce Taylor and Mark Burgess announced their retirement from
Test cricket at the end of the tour (though Burgess came back to play many
more Tests and captain the country).
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Other Test
tours in 1973
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West Indians to
England 1973.
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