New Zealand Test Cricket Captains

Stephen Fleming became New Zealand's most successful test captain in September 2000. Given the job in 1997 aged 23 years and 319 days, Fleming was New Zealand's youngest test captain. This began one of the most enduring captaincies in the history of New Zealand test cricket. Test cricket has always been a tactical battle but the demands of constant touring and the one-day game have placed still more responsibility on the captain. New Zealand Test Cricket Captains profiles the select group of men who have led New Zealand onto the test match field. Beginning with Tom Lowry in 1930, the book profiles the careers and teams, the triumphs and tragedies, of the 25 test captains of New Zealand cricket.
The book details player profiles as well as their statistics and focuses on the twenty-five test cricket captains: Tom Lowry Curly Page Walter Hadlee Bert Sutcliffe Merv Wallace Geoff Rabone Harry Cave John Reid Murray Chapple Barry Sinclair Graham Dowling Bevan Congdon Glenn Turner John Parker Mark Burgess Geoff Howarth Jeremy Coney Jeff Crowe John Wright Martin Crowe Ian Smith Ken Rutherford Lee Germon Stephen Fleming Dion Nash Matthew Appleby interviewed the captains themselves and many other test players in the course of his research. Including over 150 photographs and statistics for each captain, the book recreates the stirring times on and off the field, on tour and at home, of the New Zealand team in the national summer game. Matthew Appleby has also written a history of cricket in Canterbury, Canterbury Cricket.