Bert Sutcliffe was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949,which included four fifties and a century in the Tests,earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. He captained New Zealand in four Tests in the early 1950s,losing three of them and drawing the other. None of Sutcliffe's 42 Tests resulted in a New Zealand victory. In 1949 Sutcliffe was named the inaugural New Zealand Sportsman of the Year,and in 2000 was named as New Zealand champion sportsperson of the decade for the 1940s.
Murray Ernest Chapple was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 Test matches over 13 years,scoring three fifties with a highest score of 76. He captained New Zealand in one Test in 1966.
Barry Whitley Sinclair was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 21 Test matches for New Zealand national team as a specialist batsman from 1962–63 to 1967–68,and captained the team from 1966 to 1968.
Noel Sherwin Harford 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.
Frederick Theodore Badcock was a New Zealand first-class and Test cricketer. Perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period,he played seven Test matches for New Zealand between 1930 and 1933,including New Zealand's inaugural Test in 1930. He was the first players capped by New Zealand.
Terrence Wayne Jarvis is a New Zealand businessman and former cricketer who played 13 Test matches for New Zealand between 1965 and 1973. With Glenn Turner,Jarvis holds the opening Test partnership record for New Zealand of 387,scored against the West Indies in Georgetown,Guyana,during the 1971–72 season.
John Chaloner Alabaster was a New Zealand cricketer who played 21 Test matches for the country's national team between 1955 and 1972. A leg-spin bowler,he was the only New Zealander to play in each of the country's first four Test victories. In domestic cricket,he was often partnered at the crease for his provincial side Otago by his younger brother Gren,who bowled off-spin. A schoolteacher,he later served as Rector of Southland Boys' High School in Invercargill.
Robert Smith Cunis played 20 Test matches for New Zealand as a pace bowler between 1964 and 1972,and was later coach of the New Zealand national team from 1987 to 1990. His son Stephen played cricket for Canterbury between 1998 and 2006.
Bryan William Yuile is a former cricketer who played 17 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1960s. He played first-class cricket from 1959 to 1972,until his religious objection to playing on Sundays led to the end of his career.
Sydney Graham Gedye was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played first-class cricket for Auckland from 1956–57 to 1964–65. He was the 98th Test cap for New Zealand.
Gary Alex Bartlett is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played 10 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1960s as a fast bowler.
Bruce Hamilton Pairaudeau was a West Indian cricketer who played in 13 Test matches between 1953 and 1957. Born in British Guiana,he moved to New Zealand in the late 1950s.
Waqar Hasan Mir was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Test matches from 1952 to 1959,and the last surviving member of Pakistan's inaugural Test team. He scored 1,071 runs in Test cricket,and played in 99 first-class matches.
Herbert Mendelson McGirr was a New Zealand cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1930. He was born at Wellington in 1891.
Roy Ivan Harford is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in three Test matches against India during the 1967–68 season. He played first-class cricket in New Zealand from the 1965–66 season to the 1967–68 season.
Peter Neil Webb is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Test matches and five One Day Internationals from 1980 to 1984.
Mark Gordon Burgess is a former cricketer who played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1968 to 1980,captaining the team from 1978 to 1980. A right-handed batsman,who bowled right-arm off-breaks,Burgess played in New Zealand's first One Day International (ODI) in 1973.
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1927 season. The team contained many of the players who would later play Test cricket for New Zealand,but the tour did not include any Test matches and the 1927 English cricket season was the last,apart from the Second World War years and the cancelled South African tour of 1970,in which there was no Test cricket in England.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket from the 1945–46 season until 1970.
The New Zealand cricket team toured India in the 1964-65 cricket season. They played four Test matches against the Indian cricket team,with India winning one match and the other three being drawn.
