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New Zealand Cricket Team In England In 1958
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1958 season. In a notably wet summer when the touring side lost the equivalent of 29 full days of cricket, the side lost four of the five Test matches (and would probably have lost the other had rain not ruined the match). In first-class matches, they won six of their first nine games, but then won only one more all season, although they only lost two matches outside the Tests, both of them to Surrey. The background New Zealand's first tour of England for nine years saw what was probably the weakest of the Test-playing nations taking on the side that could probably claim to be the strongest. In home series England had successively beaten Australia and the West Indies, and a combination of fast bowling from Brian Statham, Fred Trueman and others, spin bowling from Jim Laker and Tony Lock, and apparently reliable batting led by captain Peter May, Colin Cowdrey and Tom Graveney had made them a formidable side. By contrast, New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 English Cricket Season
1958 was the 59th season of County Championship cricket in England. Surrey captain Peter May topped the batting averages for the third time and his team won a record seventh successive title. England defeated the touring New Zealand side 4–0 in a Test match series. Honours *County Championship – Surrey *Minor Counties Championship – Yorkshire Second XI *Wisden Cricketers of the Year (awarded in the 1959 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack) – Les Jackson, Roy Marshall, Arthur Milton, John Reid, Derek Shackleton Test series England defeated New Zealand 4–0 with one match drawn in a five match Test series. County Championship The County Championship was won by Surrey County Cricket Club, the last of seven consecutive Championships for the county. Hampshire were runners-up. Leading players Peter May topped the averages with 2,231 runs scored at a batting average of 63.74. Les Jackson topped the bowling averages with 143 wickets taken at a bowling average of 10.99 runs p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Cricket Team In England In 1949
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1949 season. The team was the fourth official touring side from New Zealand, following those in 1927, 1931 and 1937, and was by some distance the most successful to this date. The four-match Test series with England was shared, every game ending as a draw, and of 35 first-class fixtures, 14 were won, 20 drawn and only one lost. Background New Zealand had had very limited Test cricket in recent years. The last full tour of England had been in 1937, and since the Second World War there had been only two single matches, one against Australia in 1945-46 and the other the following season against the touring MCC team led by Wally Hammond. Consequently, many of the New Zealand players were untested at the highest level of the game. By contrast, England had played full series both at home and abroad in every summer and winter since the end of the war, though with mixed results. The team had been comprehensively outplayed twice by Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (New Zealand Cricketer)
John Thomas Ward (11 March 1937 – 12 January 2021) was a New Zealand cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper in eight Test matches between 1964 and 1968. Ward's Test captain John Reid said that he was "easily the best wicketkeeper in New Zealand in his time, but was plagued by injury." Cricket career Ward made his first-class debut for South Island against North Island The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ... in a trial match for the New Zealand cricket team in England in 1958, 1958 tour of England. He took five catches in the first innings, and was selected as Eric Petrie's deputy on the tour. He made his Plunket Shield debut for Canterbury cricket team, Canterbury in 1959–60, and was selected to tour New Zealand cricket team in South Africa in 1961–62, South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sparling
John Trevor Sparling (born 24 July 1938) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 11 Test matches between 1958 and 1964. Domestic career A stocky, fair-haired, off-spinning all-rounder, Sparling was educated at Auckland Grammar School. Coached in Auckland by Jim Laker, he broke into the Auckland team at the age of 18. He continued to play for Auckland until 1970–71. He captained Auckland through most of the 1960s, leading the team to two Plunket Shield titles. His most successful season with the bat was 1959–60, when he made 705 runs at an average of 37.10. In the Plunket Shield match against Canterbury that season he scored 105 and 51 and took 7 for 98 and 2 for 13. His most successful season with the ball was 1964–65, when he took 38 wickets at an average of 15.50. His career-best figures that year, 7 for 49 for Auckland against Otago, took Auckland to a narrow victory. International career Sparling was the youngest member of the New Zealand cricket team that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Playle
William Rodger Playle (1 December 1938 – 27 February 2019) was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Tests for the national team between 1958 and 1963, making 151 runs as a specialist batsman. Cricket career In New Zealand Bill Playle's first-class career started with Auckland in 1956–57 at the age of 18. After scoring only 355 runs in 13 matches in two seasons he was selected to tour England in 1958 as a 19-year-old, but he made only 56 runs in the five Tests, batting in the middle order. In the second innings of the Third Test at Leeds, in an attempt to avert defeat, he "gave a remarkable stonewalling display, for he stayed three and a quarter hours for 18, during which time he limited himself to seven scoring strokes". He was the top scorer in the 1961–62 season with 510 runs at 72.85, including 116 not out against Otago. His last three Tests were as an opener against England in 1962–63, when he made his only Test score above 25, scoring 65 in 202 minutes in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Petrie
Eric Charlton Petrie (22 May 1927 – 14 August 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 14 Test matches for New Zealand from 1955 to 1966 as a wicket-keeper. Domestic career Petrie began playing for Waikato in the Hawke Cup in 1945–46. He made his first-class debut for Auckland in 1950–51. He established himself in the Auckland team in 1952–53, and captained Auckland in 1954–55. When the Northern Districts men's cricket team made its first-class debut in 1956-57 he was appointed captain, a position he held until the end of the 1960–61 season. He scored two first-class centuries, both against Wellington: the first in 1953-54 when he opened the Auckland second innings and made 151, the other in 1959-60 when he made 136 at number five for Northern Districts. He retired from first-class cricket after the 1966–67 season. International career Petrie was selected to tour Pakistan and India with the New Zealanders in 1955–56. He played in four of the eight Tests on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Moir
Alexander McKenzie Moir (17 July 1919 – 17 June 2000) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 17 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1950s as a leg-spinner and lower-order batsman. Early life Moir served in Europe with New Zealand forces in World War II as a driver. At the end of the war he played a few matches for the New Zealand Services cricket team in England. Cricket career In his early career, Moir was mostly a batsman. When his Dunedin club, Grange, won the Otago Cricket Association competition in 1948–49, he was their leading batsman, with 536 runs at an average of 48.72, and did little bowling. The ''Otago Daily Times'' said he was "an attractive batsman and if he would temper his aggression with more discretion he would be unquestionably a candidate for a place in the Otago Plunket Shield team." But after watching the Australian leg-spinner Bill O'Reilly bowl, Moir decided to try his hand at leg-spin, and it was primarily as a spinner that he won his spot in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Miller
Lawrence Somerville Martin Miller (31 March 1923 – 17 December 1996) was a cricketer who played 13 matches of Test cricket for New Zealand between 1953 and 1958, and played Plunket Shield cricket for Central Districts and Wellington. Cricket career A tall left-handed batsman, Miller was a late developer who made his first class debut at 27 when Central Districts entered the Plunket Shield for the 1950–51 season. Batting in the middle order he top-scored in the first match with 46, and again in the second match with 64, when Central Districts had their first victory. He did not play in 1951–52, but returned in force in 1952–53: 103 not out against Wellington, 128 not out and 89 not out against Canterbury, 77 and 31 against Otago, and 43 against Auckland, amassing 471 runs at 157.00. He played in the two Tests later that season against South Africa, making 17, 13 and 44, and was selected to tour South Africa in 1953–54. He failed there though, making only 47 runs in fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Meale
Trevor Meale (11 November 1928 – 21 May 2010) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1958. Meale was born in Papatoetoe, Auckland and died in Orewa, Auckland. Cricket career A left-handed opening batsman, Meale played several times for Wellington in Plunket Shield matches in the early 1950s, but his only centuries came in matches against touring teams. Against the West Indian cricket team in his debut season of 1951–52, his unbeaten 112 saved the match for Wellington, while his 130 against Fiji in 1953–54 was his last first-class innings for almost four years, and remained his highest score. He then moved to England to try to get into first-class cricket there, but was not successful.''Wisden'' 2011, pp. 196–97. Meale re-emerged in New Zealand in the trial games from which the 1958 New Zealand team to England was picked, scored 48, and was duly selected for the trip. But on a disastrous tour for New Zealand in a very wet English summer, he was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony MacGibbon
Anthony Roy MacGibbon (28 August 1924 – 6 April 2010) was a cricketer who played 26 Tests for New Zealand in the 1950s. MacGibbon was a useful lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who led the attack for his country for most of the 1950s. Tall and able to move the ball off the seam, MacGibbon was known as a wholehearted cricketer in what was, for most of his career, one of the weakest teams in international cricket. Early career MacGibbon played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1947 to 1948, and was in the trial match for the 1949 New Zealand tour to England, though he was not selected. International career He made his Test debut against the 1950–51 England touring team but achieved little in the two matches, making 32 runs in four innings and failing to take a wicket. He was not much more successful in just one match against the touring South African cricket team two years later, though he did take his first Test wicket: Roy McLean. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Harford
Noel Sherwin Harford (30 August 1930 – 30 March 1981) was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Test matches in the 1950s. In domestic cricket he played for Central Districts from 1953 to 1959 and for Auckland from 1963 to 1967. Career A neat right-handed batsman strong at driving and pulling but weak in defence and against spin, Harford came to prominence on the New Zealand tour to Pakistan and India in 1955–56, making his Test debut against Pakistan at Lahore, scoring 93 and 64. That debut, though, proved by some distance to be Harford's most successful Test appearance. In England in the wet summer of 1958, Harford made his maiden first-class century against Oxford University, scoring 158, his highest first-class score, and sharing a partnership of 204 with his captain, John Reid in two hours and 10 minutes. He also scored 127 (a "brilliant century") against Glamorgan. However, in eight innings in four Test matches that season, he scored just 41 runs and reached doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John D'Arcy (cricketer)
John William D'Arcy (born 23 April 1936 in Christchurch) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played five Tests on New Zealand's tour of England in 1958. Cricket career D'Arcy attended Christchurch Boys' High School, where he opened the batting with Bruce Bolton for the first team. He continued to open the batting throughout his first-class career for Canterbury from 1955–56 to 1958–59, and for Otago from 1960–61 to 1961–62. His top score was 89, made in nearly five hours, against Glamorgan early in the 1958 tour. In his first three seasons before the 1958 tour, D'Arcy made 810 runs at 30.00 with five fifties. Although he scored only 136 runs in the five Tests in 1958, this tally still made him New Zealand's third-highest scorer. He top-scored twice in the first two Tests, and his 33 out of a team total of 74 all out in the Second Test, in just over two hours, was the team's highest individual score until Tony MacGibbon made 39 in the second innings of the Third Test. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |