New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 1925–26

The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from early December 1925 to mid-January 1926, playing four first-class matches against state teams and five other matches.^[1]

The team

The selectors were hampered by the unavailability of many players. Four leading players (David Collins, Herb McGirr, James Shepherd and Nessie Snedden) had announced that they were unavailable, four (Stewie Dempster, George Dickinson, Syd Hiddleston and Richard Rowntree) withdrew from the subsequently selected team, and two (John Banks and Matt Henderson) of their replacements also withdrew.^[1]^[2] Fourteen players toured:

Billy Patrick (captain)
Cyril Allcott
Arthur Alloo
Roger Blunt
Cyril Crawford
Bill Cunningham
Ces Dacre
Hector Gillespie
Raymond Hope
Ken James
Tom Lowry
Dan McBeath
Charlie Oliver
Rupert Worker

The team was managed by Frank Peake, the secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council.

The tour

The New Zealanders lost their first first-class match, against Queensland, by an innings, 227 and 94 to 413 for seven declared.^[3]

After easy victories over teams from Goulburn and Wagga Wagga, they drew their game against Victoria. They scored 314 (Allcott scoring 107) and 231 for six, against Victoria’s 592 for seven.^[4]

They thrashed a team from Ballarat before playing South Australia. South Australia scored 351 and 293 for five declared, and the New Zealanders made 339 (Lowry made 123, reaching his century in 81 minutes) and 192 for seven.^[5]

In the next match, New South Wales made 531 and 205 for 3, the New Zealanders 455 (Patrick made 143 and Allcott 116, putting on 244 for the seventh wicket after the New Zealanders were 162 for six).^[6] The last two country matches, in Newcastle and Maitland, were drawn.

Allcott scored the most first-class runs, with 298 at an average of 59.60. Cunningham took most wickets, 13 at 48.84; no bowler averaged less than 46.^[1]

Only six of the team (Allcott, Blunt, Cunningham, Dacre, James and Lowry) toured England in 1927.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 69.
^ "N.Z. Cricket Team for Old Country". Star: 1. 30 September 1926.
^ "Queensland v New Zealanders 1925-26". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
^ "Victoria v New Zealanders 1925-26". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
^ "South Australia v New Zealanders 1925-26". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
^ "New South Wales v New Zealanders 1925-26". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

External links

New Zealand in Australia, 1925-26 at Cricinfo
New Zealand in Australia 1925-26 at CricketArchive

Other source

Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 69–73.

International cricket tours of Australia

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2021–22
Bangladesh	2003 2008
England	1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33 1936–37 1946–47 1950–51 1954–55 1958–59 1962–63 1965–66 1970–71 1974–75 1977 1978–79 1979–80 1982–83 1986–87 1987–88 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23
India	1947–48 1967–68 1977–78 1980–81 1985–86 1991–92 1999–2000 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2020–21 2024–25
New Zealand	1973–74 1980–81 1982–83 1985–86 1987–88 1989–90 1993–94 1997–98 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20 2022–23
Pakistan	1964–65 1972–73 1976–77 1978–79 1981–82 1983–84 1989–90 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 1999–2000 2002 2004–05 2009–10 2016–17 2019–20 2023–24
South Africa	1910–11 1931–32 1952–53 1963–64 1971–72 (cancelled) 1993–94 1997–98 2000 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2012–13 2014–15 2016–17 2018–19 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 2004 2007–08 2010–11 2012–13 2016–17 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22
West Indies	1930–31 1951–52 1960–61 1968–69 1975–76 1979–80 1981–82 1984–85 1988–89 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 2000–01 2005–06 2009–10 2012–13 2015–16 2020–21 2022–23 2023–24
Zimbabwe	1994–95 2003–04 2022

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

Other tours
Afghanistan	2014–15
Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13 2021
Fijian	1907–08
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977-78 1978-79