The

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toured Ceylon, Australia and

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in the 1929–30 season to play a

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series against the New Zealand national cricket team. This was the first Test series ever played by New Zealand. England began the tour in October 1929 in Ceylon with a single minor match and then in Australia where they played five first-class matches. The New Zealand leg of the tour began in December and, in addition to the Test series, England played each of the main provincial teams:

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and Otago. England, captained by Harold Gilligan, won the Test series 1–0 with three matches drawn. At the same time another English team, captained by Freddie Calthorpe, was touring the West Indies, playing the first Test series there. It was the only time one country has played in two Test matches on the same day.

The English team

* Harold Gilligan (captain) *

Guy Earle Guy Fife Earle (24 August 1891 – 30 December 1966) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Surrey and Somerset for 20 years before and after the First World War. He also played in India, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand ...

(vice-captain) *

Maurice Allom Maurice James Carrick Allom (23 March 1906 – 8 April 1995) was an English amateur cricketer who played in five Tests from 1930 to 1931. Life and career Allom attended Wellington College, Berkshire, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridg ...

* Fred Barratt * Edward Benson *

Ted Bowley Edward Henry Bowley (6 June 1890 – 9 July 1974) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Sussex County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. A forceful opening batsman, Bowley played just one season of regular first-class c ...

* Walter Cornford * Eddie Dawson * K. S. Duleepsinhji *

Geoffrey Legge Geoffrey Bevington Legge (26 January 1903 – 21 November 1940) was an English first-class cricketer who played in five Test matches between 1927 and 1930. He was born at Bromley, Kent and died at Brampford Speke, Devon in a flying accident w ...

* Stan Nichols *

Maurice Turnbull Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull (16 March 1906 – 5 August 1944) was a Welsh cricketer who played in nine Test matches for the England cricket team between 1930 and 1936. A talented all round sportsman, Turnbull excelled in several sports. In ...

Frank Woolley Frank Edward Woolley (27 May 1887 – 18 October 1978) was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and for the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder, Woolley was a left-handed batsman ...

* Stan Worthington Apart from Woolley, who had played 55 Tests before the tour, it was an inexperienced side at Test level. Bowley had played two Tests, and Barratt, Dawson, Duleepsinhji and Legge one each; the other eight had not played a Test. The team was selected in late June, with Arthur Gilligan, who had played 11 Tests, as captain. However, he was unable to tour owing to illness, and his younger brother Harold was selected to replace him. The other change to the original selected team was that Maurice Allom replaced Frank Watson.

Test Matches

First Test

Second Test

Third Test

Fourth Test

References

External links

England in New Zealand, 1929-30
at Cricinfo
MCC in Australia and New Zealand 1929-30
at CricketArchive

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