EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS / DISPLAYS non-completion of a five-day game (even if How I Came To Love aiming to save the game by a draw is New Zealand – 1970’s & 1980’s Chronology the Game sometimes part of a team’s strategy) is pure poetry.’ Commenced 16 November 2005 NEW ZEALAND In March 2005 the Museum This showcase display is the second in a series of chronologies (l. to r.) David Mealing, Monique Damitio and Manager/Curator David Mealing, which features the highlights and lowlights of New Zealand cricket history and its attended the New Zealand versus J. Neville Turner 29.03.2005 CRICKET MUSEUM GPK Restaurant, Mt. Eden, Auckland development since the early 1840’s until recent times. It follows upon the showcase test match at Photo: Unknown Restaurant Staff Member display of New Zealand cricket in the 1950’s and 1960’s installed in August 2004. This with J. Neville Turner and Monique Private Collection forty year span (1950-1990) addresses a significant gap in the display of New Zealand Damitio, a computer scientist. He cricket history in the museum. invited both of his guests to contribute an article for the Visits to the Museum newsletter. Neville responded in the last newsletter with a The 1970’s and 1980’s display includes an accompanying text panel with bullet points report of the test match and Monique has responded with the In May and June we hosted the Lion’s supporter’s groups from of the highlights and lowlights of New Zealand test and first-class cricket throughout following article on how she came to love the game. Britain. A successful opening of the ‘Start of Play: The Origins of these two decades. It is also complemented with a wall mounted colour photo mural the Game’ display took place on the 14th of September. However, of a section of a crowd waving New Zealand flags etc at a One-Day International game. ‘In Morocco, where I come from, the word cricket is associated the response to an invitation to coaches and players of 8 school A press button audio interactive attached to the mural plays a selection of crowd with a devastating swarm of insects. I now live in France and 1st XI’s has been very disappointing. In collaboration with Cricket noises from three games in the 1980’s to make the mural ‘come alive.’ for most people cricket only means a small brown jumping , it is planned to schedule guided tours of the museum The showcase displays collection objects which also complement the text panel. These insect. Those French people who have dared to cross the with representative age group players, including the State include, amongst others, treasures from the museums photography, bat, porcelain N.Z. BREAKS TEST “DUCK” Channel dismiss it as yet another English eccentricity. Wellington Firebird’s and Blaze teams. Something they refuse to understand and to appreciate. and ceramics, glass, ephemera, costumes and textiles and silver collections. Also, there are a number of loan items sourced from private collections. Nevertheless, since I first watched a cricket match on British WITH 190-RUN WIN television I have become fascinated by this exciting game. In A 46 minute DVD programme which features edited highlights from the video fact it was love at first sight, as I was immediately bewitched by ‘From Cloth Cap to Helmet’ produced in 1992 is also included in the display. the umpires signals. I then quickly became interested in the This programme has superb footage of significant games, interviews with the major rules of the game, the various players positions, the different players, as well as bowling and batting styles, the teams, the players, and controversial subsequently went to county and test matches. moments in games throughout And as I started to observe the watching crowd I realised how the two decades. much of the game also takes place beyond the boundaries. The programme Perhaps, what I admire above all is the pace of a match. In Guests at the Opening of the ‘Start of Play: Origins of the Game’ Display is hosted by Ian particular, in a world driven by fast performances, allowing the 14.09.2005 • Photo: Paddianne Neely • Collection: NZCM Archives Smith, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper. VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Phone: 04 385 6602 • Fax: 04 384 3498 Email: [email protected] 1970’s & 1980’s The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve, Wellington Website: www.nzcricket.co.nz Showcase Display (detail) 2005 Public Hours Basin Reserve Tours Photo: Michael Hall Summer Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Monday to Sunday and all match Tours can be organised to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the New Zealand Cricket days i.e. 01 November to 30 April. R.A. Vance Stand, the Groundsmen’s Shed and the perimeter of Museum Archives Winter Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Weekends only i.e. 01 May to the ground to view famous historical cricket plaques. 31 October or by special arrangement. Facilities Also Showing (commenced 12 September 2005) Closed Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Good Friday. ‘Start of Play: The Origins of Cricket’ Museum toilet including disabled toilet. Schools & Group Hours Bus & car parking adjacent to the museum. Summer Season: Open Monday to Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm Museum shop stocks a variety of books, postcards, miniature cricket by prior arrangement (not on match days). bats, balls etc. New Zealand verses West Indies (Fourth Test) Winter Season: As above but by special arrangement. Eden Park, Auckland – 9, 10, 12, 13 March 1956 Lending Library A scramble for the stumps at the fall of the last West Indian at Eden Park. Even Valentine (far right) is caught up in the joy Admission Charge The library is available for lending, research and study purposes. of this historic moment. The New Zealanders (from left) are Reid, Chapple, Guillen, Beard and Taylor. $5 adults; $2 students/children. Children (12 years & under) free Hours by arrangement. Photo: New Zealand Herald. 14.03.1956 if accompanied by an adult. How To Find Us School groups $1per student and $2 per adult. By Car: Drive in/enter by the southern (J.R. Reid) Gate at the Other group visits by arrangement. Basin Reserve. Bookings By Bus: Stagecoach Wellington. Buses 1, 42, 43, 44 travel to/from The museum welcomes school/group visits by prior arrangement. We Kent & Cambridge Terrace to the Central Railway Station. appreciate at least two weeks notice to enable successful liaison time By Rail: NZ Tranz Metro units depart from the Central Railway Station. Highlights of New Zealand v. Australia with the Host/Guide and to ensure that you are able to book the most By Foot: Enter the Basin by the northern or southern Gates and Test Matches Display (detail) ‘Start of Play: The Origins of Cricket’ Display proceed to museum. Photo: Michael Hall suitable times. (detail) Summer/Autumn Newsletter 2005/06 New Zealand Cricket Museum Archives Note: The museum can comfortably accommodate 25 students and General Photo: Michael Hall accompanying teachers and adults, split into two groups, at one time. New Zealand Cricket Museum Archives Smoking, food or drink are not permitted. 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th st Showcase Display Objects 50 Anniversary of New Zealand’s 1 Test Win, 13 March 1956 Museum Library New Zealand v. West Indies (Fourth Test) The re-cataloguing of the books in the Library The New Zealand Cricket 1970’s & 1980’s showcase displays a is nearing completion with a review of the first significant number of museum collection treasures and a small Eden Park, Auckland, 9, 10, 12, 13 March 1956 phase of the amended classification system due number of loan items related to the period. The museum to be completed before Christmas. All additions ‘Thus the losses suffered in the first three Tests, though disappointingly heavy, came as no surprise to a treasures only are featured on this page. The process of and corrections will then be addressed before public inured to defeat and faded into insignificance when Reid led his team to victory in the final match the classification systems are fully updated and conceptualising, planning, designing, fabricating and installing in Auckland. That was the moment for which New Zealanders had waited twenty-six years.’ completed in the New Year. We encourage all a 3-D showcase display is a complex, time-consuming and Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1957 cricket lovers to use the museums library. There expensive task. It is always made easier by access to a good is a wealth of cricket literature available for John Reid won the toss and batted, but McGregor and cross-section of pertinent and selective object material from Sir ’s Cricket Boots c.1982 research and recreational purposes. Please Costumes & Textiles Collection MacGibbon had been dismissed by lunch; 48 for two. The loss added 41 – two sixes and ensure that you book a time in advance. the museums own collections, as well as loan items from private NZCM. No Accession No. of Taylor and Miller for a gritty 47 brought together Reid and three fours – out of 46 in collections and other public institutions. N.Z. Cricket Helmet – c.1983 Beck at 87. While the New Zealand was circumspect better than even time. Reid There are always issues of research, selection, conservation, Costumes & Textiles Collection against the good ball, his quick eye allowed him to pick up loose declared at 157 for nine presentation (including object supports), to consider, develop Accession No. NCM 03/208 deliveries and dispatch these with uninhibited power. at lunch. and resolve within the overall framework of telling an Beck, initially cautious, unleashed a number of free strokes as The tourists were set a target informative and engaging visual story. The addition of loan the partnership reached a hundred in 121 minutes. When Beck of 268 runs to win in the last two sessions; more likely, they The team that won New Zealand’s first official test match, against the items from private collections, or other sources, can fill West Indies at Eden Park in March 1956 was out four runs later for 38, the fifth wicket stand was the best would need to survive for four hours what was going to be a keen important gaps in an otherwise incomplete story. DVD Standing: G.C. Burgess (manager), J.C. Alabaster, H.B. Cave, A.R. MacGibbon, produced yet in the series by the home team. Guillen was run offensive. Pairaudeau was bowled by Cave with the opening ball programmes featuring historic match highlights and interviews D.D. Beard, S.C. Guillen, L.S.M. Miller, W.M. Wallace (coach) out before bad light stopped play; 203 for six. Reid was unbeaten of the second over of the innings. Beard enticed an edge from Seated: I.M. Sinclair (12th man), M.E. Chapple, D.D. Taylor, J.R. Reid, with major players broaden the scope, and along with inter- st J.E.F. Beck, S.N. McGregor Cricket Ball – 1 N.Z. Test on 82, perhaps denied the opportunity to score a in his Furlonge, a snick by Atkinson stuck in Chapple’s hand and in Museum Volunteer, Peter Ross, in the NZCM Library actives, help provide a fuller and more accurate picture. Photo: New Zealand Herald • Private Collection Victory v. England 1978 100th first-class game. the same over Cave bowled Smith. The last three batsmen had 2005 N.Z. v. England – this is the ball fallen without adding to the score of 16; Cave had three Photo: Michael Hall Official Souvenir used in the final session Rain and bad light restricted play on the second day to a little Collection: NZCM Archives Programme 1974 for five runs. Two runs later Sobers was run out and at 22 Beard Ephemera Collection more than four hours, during which time 148 runs were scored. N.Z. v. Australia – Accession No. NCM 419 yorked Roberts and the sixth wicket had tumbled in 40 minutes. 1st N. Z. Test Victory v. Reid departed early, hit wicket for 84. Beard mixed aggression Public Programmes Australia – by 5 wickets with defence, to finish with 31 , while the last three Weekes and wicketkeeper Binns took the score to 68 before the The museum will be organising a series of public Ephemera Collection wickets fell to Dewdney, who finished with five for 21 off 19.5 former, lifting the ball for the first time in his stay of 87 minutes, programmes in March and/or April 2006. We Accession No. NCM overs. New Zealand’s total of 255 occupied seven hours. including seven fours, was caught just inside the square-leg invite all cricket followers to look out for NZCM 01/213 ‘First Test Victory in N.Z. Cricket’ advertisements, press releases and What’s On boundary off the leg-spinner Alabaster. At the same score The home team’s pace attack quickly dominated the West Indian Excited Ovation for Reid’s Team information in local newspapers. Ramadin was caught off Beard and Binns was bowled by top order. Cave’s lively inswingers and the accurate speed of Newspaper Headline Alabaster; 77 for nine at tea. New Zealand Herald 14.03.1956, MacGibbon troubled all the batsmen. When MacGibbon found p.12 Museum Volunteers the edge of Weekes bat, three wickets were down for 46. Beard As news of the afternoon’s drama spread around Auckland This newsletter continues the theme of an disposed of Smith very cheaply before Atkinson briefly hit out, people abandoned workplaces and rushed to Eden Park to New Zealand won by introduction to museum volunteers. falling to Reid for 28. Bad light ended the day at 96 for five. witness what must surely be New Zealand’s first test victory 190 runs Brian Speechly – In 1992 I was “conned” into after 26 years of earnest but often humiliating endeavour. becoming a volunteer by ex-schoolmates and After the rest day rain prevented a resumption until after lunch John Reid remembers: ‘Not too many things have made an Beard bowled a maiden to Dewdney then Cave’s first ball museum volunteers at an annual Reunion on the third day. Slow progress carried the West Indies to 139, impression on me but that day did. It was a dramatic day. The of Timaru Boys High tempted Valentine to stretch forward, Guillen completed a when Furlonge, who had opened the innings, was caught behind win was a triumph. We did it well, we had a plan together and students in the Vance splendid stumping and the fieldsmen swooped in to souvenir Stand. I organise the off Cave for 64. Five wickets tumbled for six runs as the tourists we had to contain Weekes. We had the bowlers, who gave away the stumps. Seven thousand people engulfed the ground, volunteer’s roster and were dismissed for 145. Cave (four for 22) and MacGibbon (four very little, and we took the catches. I had my first sip of thumping the backs of instant heroes and offering cheers for strive to encourage others Official Souvenir for 44) had achieved their best figures at test level. All the champagne and toasted the team that did the business.’ to join our ranks. I Programme 1978 Reid and Atkinson. catches given were accepted and the reward was a healthy lead thoroughly enjoy the N.Z. v. England – 1st N.Z. N.Z. Cricket Team Signature Wine Glasses 1983 valued friendships with st Test Victory v. England – “The 1 Test Victory by N.Z. over England on British Soil – of 110 runs. my fellow volunteers as st by 72 runs Headingley, Leeds, August 1 1983” well as meeting cricketing Glass Collection McGregor was again out cheaply, but MacGibbon launched an Ephemera Collection enthusiasts from around Brian Speechly Accession No. NCM NZCM. No Accession No. offensive and was 30 when he lost his partner, Miller, to the the world. P239 last ball of the day; 61 for two. When the sixth New Zealand wicket fell at 101, Atkinson, in a single-handed attempt to save Anna Montgomery – I first became aware Presentation Tray – of cricket growing up in Australia and when ‘To in his team’s honour, had captured all six for 39 runs. His tight my family moved back to New Zealand appreciation for attack had made runs difficult to come by until Guillen I maintained a spectator contributing to interest. I was introduced New Zealand Cricket – to the museum by a from Canterbury Cricket ‘Cricket Calypso’ volunteer, Brian Speechly, Association 1987’ and signed up in Silver Collection After 25 Years, N.Z. Wins A Cricket Test! Cartoonist: Minhinnick • New Zealand Herald 14.03.1956, p.12 December 1997. I have NZCM. been happily involved No Accession No. Shell Rosebowl Medal 1986 Note the error re: 25 years, it should read 26 years Awarded to Pat McKelvey, since, enjoying the keen Sources: ‘Men in White – The History of New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1895’ by Don Manager, NZWC Team The Scoreboard at Eden Park, Tuesday 13 March 1956 follower’s conversations Neely and Richard King, published by Moa Publications 1986, pgs 256, 257; ‘The First Fifty and anecdotes from their NZCM. No Accession No. New Zealand v. West Indies (Fourth Test) – New Zealand Cricket Test Victories 1956-2002’ by Lynn McConnell, published by HarperSports Photo: Unknown 2002, pgs 17-24; ‘The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1956’ edited by Arthur H. Carman travel’s and love of cricket. Anna Montgomery Collection: Photography • Accession No: NCM 1678; 97/110 & Noel S. MacDonald, published by Sporting Publications, pgs 70, 71, 72.