The Teams

New Zealand International XI

• Ervin McSweeney (c)
• Lee Germon
• Geoff Allott
• Nathan Astle
• Mark Priest
• Paul Wiseman
• Justin Vaughan
• Evan Gray
• Rod Latham
• Stu Roberts
• Anup Nathu

Governor-General’s Youth XI

• Tim Muir (c)
• Tom Latham
• Sam Noster
• Mitchell Croft
• Hamish Teale
• Maulik Patel
• Matthew McEwan
• Peter Younghusband
• Edward Nuttall
• Theo van Woerkom
• Tim Johnston

The Match

A bitterly cold, damp morning and a greenish pitch awaited the teams on their arrival at the ground with the game commencing at 10.30am.

Latham and Patel began confidently with an opening partnership of 53 but on the arrival of The Governor-General, His Excellency The Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, batsmen were removed by excellent seam bowling from Allott, Vaughan and the ever dangerous Astle who “seamed out” the middle order. At 109 for 7 the innings was resurrected by captain Tim Muir and the Nelson Hawke Cup player Peter Younghusband who manoeuvred the innings to 261 with an excellent 152 run partnership.

The New Zealand XI showed many glimpses of past year’s success with solid starts from most of their players. The Youth XI used the conditions to their best advantage with six obtaining Past New Zealand scalps.

At the conclusion of the game Sir John Hansen, President of The Willows, acknowledged and thanked His Excellency for his encouragement of such a fixture and for his presence not only at the dinner held at the Christchurch Club the night before, but throughout the day at Loburn. Don Neely presented a copy of his recent excellent publication “50 Tests at The Basin Reserve” to all the Youth XI and the Governor-General presented his special tie to each member of his Youth XI.