Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to Sri Lanka 2004

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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.

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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

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)