New Zealand cricket team in Australia and Ceylon in 1937–38

The New Zealand national cricket team toured Ceylon and Australia in October and November 1937 to play four matches, of which the three Australian matches are rated first-class. The New Zealand team was captained by Curly Page. They played the Ceylonese national team in Colombo and then three Australian state teams.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/0/New_Zealand_in_Australia_1937-38.html |website=CricketArchive |title=New Zealand in Australia and Ceylon 1937 |access-date=29 June 2014}}

The New Zealand team were returning from their tour of England. The tour had not been financially successful, so the New Zealand Cricket Council hastily arranged the short tour of Australia in the hope of recouping their losses.Nigel Smith, Kiwis Declare: Players Tell the Story of New Zealand Cricket, Random House, Auckland, 1994, p. 182. The team was unchanged, except that Cyril Parsloe replaced Jack Dunning, who was unable to take any further time away from work.{{cite web|title=New Zealand to England 1937|url= http://test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_1741568.html|website=Test Cricket Tours|access-date=4 March 2018}}

Tour matches

;First match

{{Test match

| date = 17th October 1937
(1-day single innings match)

| team1 = {{cr-rt|Ceylon|colonial}}

| team2 = {{cr|New Zealand}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 221/8d (59 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Fredrick de Saram 90

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Sonny Moloney 4/53 (15 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 177/5 (29 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Giff Vivian 68*

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Sargo Jayawickreme 3/36 (7 overs)

| result = Match drawn

| venue = Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo

| umpires = Henry de Zylva and SBL Perera

| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/136/136212.html Scorecard]

| toss = Ceylon won the toss and decided to bat

| rain =

| motm =

}}

;Second match

{{Test match

| date = 5–8 November 1937
(4-day match)

| team1 = {{cr-rt|NZ}}

| team2 = {{cr-Aus|SA}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 151 (52.3 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Lindsay Weir 38

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Frank Ward 4/59 (12 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 331 (113.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Jack Badcock 114

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Jack Cowie 3/72 (33 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 186 (45.2 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Giff Vivian 64

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Frank Ward 7/62 (17.2 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 7/0 (3.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Jack Badcock 5*

| wickets-team2-inns2 =

| result = South Australia won by 10 wickets

| venue = Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

| umpires = Arthur G. Jenkins and John Scott

| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16436.html Scorecard]

| toss = New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat

| rain =

| motm =

}}

;Third match

{{Test match

| date = 12–16 November 1937
(4-day match)

| team1 = {{cr-rt|NZ}}

| team2 = {{cr-Aus|Vic}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 210 (51.7 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Walter Hadlee 51

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Ernie McCormick 3/38 (14 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 141 (49.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Jack Ledward 49*

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Cyril Parsloe 5/47 (15 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 223 (54 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Giff Vivian 66

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Ross Gregory 4/50 (13 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 293/5 (88.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Lindsay Hassett 127*

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Giff Vivian 3/89 (32 overs)

| result = Victoria won by 5 wickets

| venue = Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

| umpires = Andrew Barlow and Walter J. Moore

| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16438.html Scorecard]

| toss = New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat

| rain =

| motm =

}}

;Fourth match

{{Test match

| date = 19–22 November 1937
(4-day match)

| team1 = {{cr-rt|NZ}}

| team2 = {{cr-Aus|NSW}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 195 (54.1 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Bill Carson 40

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Bill O'Reilly 5/57 (18.1 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 274 (67.4 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Sid Barnes 97

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Jack Cowie 4/76 (22 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 214 (53.1 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Merv Wallace 58

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Bill O'Reilly 4/61 (1731 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 136/2 (35.6 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Arthur Chipperfield 67*

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Jack Cowie 2/27 (6 overs)

| result = New South Wales won by 8 wickets

| venue = Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

| umpires = George Borwick and Frederick Lyons

| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16441.html Scorecard]

| toss = New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat

| rain =

| motm =

}}

References

External links

[http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1937-38/NZ_IN_AUS/ New Zealand in Australia, 1937-38] at Cricinfo
[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/0/New_Zealand_in_Australia_1937-38.html New Zealand in Australia 1937-38] at CricketArchive

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