England in New Zealand Test Series - 1st Test
England won by an innings and 83 runs
- Test no. 757 | 1974/75 season
- Played at Eden Park, Auckland
- 20,21,22,23,25 February 1975 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DL Amiss | c †Wadsworth b Hadlee | 19 | 42 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 45.23 | |
| B Wood | c Parker b Hadlee | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JH Edrich | c Congdon b HJ Howarth | 64 | 182 | 158 | 10 | 0 | 40.50 | |
| MH Denness* | c Parker b Congdon | 181 | 414 | 392 | 25 | 0 | 46.17 | |
| KWR Fletcher | c Hadlee b Congdon | 216 | 443 | 413 | 29 | 0 | 52.30 | |
| AW Greig | b GP Howarth | 51 | 89 | 95 | 5 | 0 | 53.68 | |
| APE Knott† | not out | 29 | 101 | 124 | 2 | 0 | 23.38 | |
| CM Old | not out | 9 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 90.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 14, nb 8) | 24 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets dec; 153 overs) | 593 | (2.90 runs per 6 balls) | |||||
| Did not bat DL Underwood, GG Arnold, P Lever |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Wood), 2-36 (Amiss), 3-153 (Edrich), 4-419 (Denness), 5-497 (Greig), 6-578 (Fletcher) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RO Collinge | 24 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 2.34 | |||
| DR Hadlee | 20 | 2 | 102 | 2 | 3.82 | |||
| EJ Chatfield | 19 | 2 | 95 | 0 | 3.75 | |||
| BE Congdon | 30 | 3 | 115 | 2 | 2.87 | |||
| HJ Howarth | 46 | 9 | 135 | 1 | 2.20 | |||
| GP Howarth | 14 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 2.51 |
| New Zealand 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JFM Morrison | c Amiss b Greig | 58 | 196 | 153 | 9 | 0 | 37.90 | |
| GM Turner | c Amiss b Arnold | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 114.28 | |
| JM Parker | c †Knott b Underwood | 121 | 408 | 297 | 18 | 0 | 40.74 | |
| BE Congdon* | c Old b Greig | 2 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| BF Hastings | c †Knott b Old | 13 | 50 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 32.50 | |
| GP Howarth | c Wood b Greig | 6 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| KJ Wadsworth† | lbw b Underwood | 58 | 218 | 144 | 6 | 0 | 40.27 | |
| DR Hadlee | c sub (BW Luckhurst) b Underwood | 22 | 48 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 45.83 | |
| HJ Howarth | c Fletcher b Greig | 9 | 30 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 45.00 | |
| RO Collinge | not out | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| EJ Chatfield | c Fletcher b Greig | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 4, nb 20) | 29 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 89 overs) | 326 | (2.74 runs per 6 balls) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-9 (Turner), 2-125 (Morrison), 3-131 (Congdon), 4-166 (Hastings), 5-173 (GP Howarth), 6-285 (Parker), 7-315 (Hadlee), 8-326 (Wadsworth), 9-326 (HJ Howarth), 10-326 (Chatfield) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 20 | 4 | 69 | 1 | 2.58 | |||
| P Lever | 20 | 4 | 75 | 0 | 2.81 | |||
| AW Greig | 26 | 4 | 98 | 5 | 2.82 | |||
| DL Underwood | 16 | 6 | 38 | 3 | 1.78 | |||
| CM Old | 7 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 1.82 |
| New Zealand 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JFM Morrison | c Fletcher b Greig | 58 | 160 | 114 | 8 | 0 | 50.87 | |
| GM Turner | c †Knott b Lever | 2 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| BE Congdon* | b Underwood | 18 | 54 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 52.94 | |
| BF Hastings | c Amiss b Lever | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JM Parker | c Edrich b Greig | 13 | 64 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 22.80 | |
| GP Howarth | not out | 51 | 164 | 92 | 5 | 0 | 55.43 | |
| KJ Wadsworth† | c Fletcher b Underwood | 6 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| DR Hadlee | c Edrich b Greig | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| HJ Howarth | b Greig | 4 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 17.39 | |
| RO Collinge | c Fletcher b Greig | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| EJ Chatfield | retired hurt | 13 | 79 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 56.52 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, nb 12) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 57.5 overs) | 184 | (2.39 runs per 6 balls) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 6 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 3.87 | |||
| P Lever | 11.5 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 2.38 | |||
| AW Greig | 15 | 3 | 51 | 5 | 2.55 | |||
| DL Underwood | 25 | 9 | 47 | 2 | 1.41 |
| Match details |
| Balls per over 8 |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series England led the 2-match series 1-0 |
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Test debuts
EJ Chatfield and
GP Howarth
(New Zealand) |
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Umpires
DEA Copps and WRC Gardiner |
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Close of play 20 Feb day 1 - England 1st innings 319/3 (MH Denness 149*, KWR Fletcher 76*) 21 Feb day 2 - New Zealand 1st innings 31/1 (JFM Morrison 7*, JM Parker 9*) 22 Feb day 3 - New Zealand 1st innings 285/5 (JM Parker 121*, KJ Wadsworth 49*) 23 Feb day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 161/9 (GP Howarth 38*, EJ Chatfield 4*) 24 Feb rest day 25 Feb day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 184 (57.5 ov) - end of match |
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Match Coverage
Photos
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Feb 24, 1975 
A distraught Peter Lever is comforted by Derek Underwood © The Cricketer International |
Feb 24, 1975 
An unconscious Ewen Chatfield is stretchered off the field © The Cricketer International |
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