South African cricket team in New Zealand in 1963–64 explained

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 Australiam, which was drawn 1–1.

South African team

• Trevor Goddard (captain)
• Peter van der Merwe (vice-captain)
• Eddie Barlow
• Colin Bland
• Peter Carlstein
• Buster Farrer
• Clive Halse
• Denis Lindsay
• Joe Partridge
• David Pithey
• Tony Pithey
• Graeme Pollock
• Peter Pollock

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

Third Test

External links

• South Africa in Australia and New Zealand 1963-64 at CricketArchive

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

Notes and References

1. Colin Bryden, All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story, Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 83–85.