English national cricket team in New Zealand in the 1970-71 season

The tour of England's national cricket team to New Zealand in the 1970/71 season took place from February 25 to March 8, 1971. The international cricket tour was part of the 1970/71 international cricket season and included two tests . England won the series 1–0.

prehistory

England previously played a tour in Australia and New Zealand was the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in England in the 1969 season .

Stages

Auckland Christchurch (LP)

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Eden Park	Auckland	50,000	2nd test
Lancaster Park	Christchurch	38,628	1st test

Squad lists

test
New Zealand	England
Mark Burgess Richard Collinge Bevan Congdon Bob Cunis Graham Dowling Hedley Howarth Ross Morgan Darrin Murray Vic Pollard Mike Shrimpton Glenn Turner Ken Wadsworth Peter Webb	Chris Cowdrey Basil D'Oliveira John Edrich Keith Fletcher John Hampshire Richard Illingworth Alan Knott John Lever Brian Luckhurst Ken Shuttleworth Paul Taylor Derek Underwood Bob Willis Don Wilson

Testing

First test in Auckland

February 25th - March 1st scorecard	Christchurch (LP)	New Zealand 65 (37.6) & 254 (97.3)	-	England 231 (67.5) & 89-2 (25)
		England wins with 8 wickets

Second test in Christchurch

March 5-8 Scorecard	Auckland	England 321 (72.6) & 237 (84.7)	-	New Zealand 313-7d (106) & 40-0 (16)
		draw

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo