LEGACY & EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS / DISPLAYS

Donations and Bequests Percentage or Fractional Bequest: this is where the person Multi-Media Touch-Screen Interactive NEW ZEALAND We ask that you take a moment to consider making a donation making the bequest decides to distribute their estate by Work has been progressing on the above project the late winter and spring or bequest to the New Zealand Museum in your will. percentage terms. months. A significant amount of research and resource material has been CRICKET MUSEUM It can take the form of monies or items of a cricket collectable Specific Bequest: this is where an item or specific sum of gathered together in that time. This includes a large number of photographs of nature as described in the terms of the money is gifted on death to the museum. players, broadcasters/commentators, and poets, plus Radio NZ Sound Archives Museum Collections Policy (please contact the museum for a recordings, and recordings of New Zealand cricket poetry and cricket comedy. Because we value your bequest, we are happy to discuss copy of this document). Selections of cricket music (via You Tube) and also player records/statistics from provisions being made to ensure your intentions are fulfilled the New Zealand Cricket website complete the broad scope of the project. If the donor wishes, monies can be bequeathed or donated for as instructed by your estate. a specific use such as a special museum project, to purchase Project briefs have been prepared, and completed, for the players and broadcasters/ An example of an admittedly very generous legacy was the items for the collection, or they can allow the New Zealand commentators/poets segments of the project, along with determinations on the Somerset Cricket Museum in England receiving more than Cricket Museum to use the money as it sees best. navigation paths, and decisions about the music and comedy segments, to provide £250,000 (approx. $500,000) in late 2009. Chairman a clear view of how all the material will finally come together in an innovative Your support and generosity will ensure that the New Zealand Charles Clive-Ponsonby-Fane stated that it was his hope that way on screen. The project has been fully costed, and budgeted, and with the cricket story survives for future generations through the work the legacy would “safeguard the well-being of the Somerset recently approved funding support from the New Zealand Community Trust, and of the New Zealand Cricket Museum. Cricket Museum for the generations to come.” to a much lesser degree, the Wellington Cricket Trust, real progress can now be A bequest is simply a gift made to the New Zealand Cricket Group Visits to the Museum made over the next three months or so by our touch-screen interactive technology Museum through your will. There are usually three types to developers and designer to develop and complete the project. It is planned that consider: School and community group visits are on schedule to equal the interactive will become available for use to the museum public on, or about, or surpass the Business Plan objective of 35 groups at the the 1st of April 2012. Residue Bequest: this is where you bequeath that part of end of the financial year. The 18 groups that have visited your estate which remains after the provisions made for your the museum in the last six months have included Take Five family. (Special Needs Group), Boulcott School (Lower Hutt), Wairarapa College, Waterloo School (Lower Hutt), YMCA Somerset Cricket Museum School Holiday Groups, NZ Basketball Group, Paraparaumu Chairman Charles Clive-Ponsonby- Probus, and Lauriston Primary School (South Canterbury). Fane and Curator Peter Yates (right) Also, attendees at the Heritage Month Launch on the 1st of cannot conceal their delight after September visited the museum, as did New Zealand Cricket receiving official notification of the legacy. Board members and delegates at the New Zealand Cricket Source: Somerset Cricket Museum AGM on the 27th of September.

VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Phone: 04 385 6602 Email: [email protected] The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve, Wellington Website: www.nzcricket.co.nz Public Hours Basin Reserve Tours Broadcaster/Commentator: Bryan Waddle 2010 Photographer: The Dominion Post Summer Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Monday to Sunday and all match Tours can be organised to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the Source: The Dominion Post days i.e. 01 November to 30 April. R.A. Vance Stand, the Groundsmen’s Shed and the perimeter of the Winter Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Weekends only i.e. 01 May to 31 ground to view famous historical cricket plaques. October or by special arrangement. Facilities Schools & Group Hours Museum toilet including disabled toilet. Summer Season: Open Monday to Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm by prior Bus & car parking adjacent to the museum. arrangement (not match days). Museum shop stocks a variety of books, postcards, miniature cricket Winter Season: As above but by special arrangement. bats, balls etc. Admission Charges Lending Library $7 adults; $3 students/children. Children (12 years & under) free The library is available for lending, research and study purposes. if accompanied by an adult. Hours by arrangement. A cornucopia of cricket history. School groups $1 per student and $2 per adult. How To Find Us Other group visits by arrangement. By Car: Drive in/enter by the southern (J.R. Reid) Gate at the Basin Bookings Reserve. The museum welcomes school/group visits by prior arrangement. By Bus: Stagecoach Wellington. Buses 1, 42, 43, 44 travel to/from at training ahead of the second test match versus in Hobart, Wednesday 7 December 2011 We appreciate at least two weeks notice to enable successful liaison Kent and Cambridge Terrace to the Central Railway Station. Photographer: Andrew Cornaga Source: PHOTOSPORT time with the Host/Guide and to ensure that you are able to book the By Rail: NZ Tranz Metro units depart from the Central Railway Station. most suitable times. By Foot: Enter the Basin by the northern or southern Gates and Player: 1949 Note: The museum can comfortably accommodate 25 students and proceed to museum. Photographer: Scarborough & Districts Newspapers Ltd Summer/Autumn Newsletter 2011-12 accompanying teachers and adults, split into two groups, at one General Private Collection Poet: Harry Ricketts 1990 time. Smoking, food or drink are not permitted. Photographer: Unknown Private Collection COLLECTION MANAGEMENT NEW ZEALAND CRICKET HISTORY BRIEFLY Interactive Project Photography Mural ’s World Record 83.4% of his Worcestershire started their innings in the final hour of the Museum Admission Price Increases The photographic mural of players, teams, grounds, broadcasters/commentators, and poets shown below on this page represents Team’s Score first day in which time Barry Jones and Phillip Neale were The museum increased its admission the total number of images included in the interactive and/or the two wall mounted murals that will be located in the interactive 141 of 169 for Worcestershire v out, having played second fiddle to Turner: Jones lbw at 18 for charges for adults and students on the 1st space in the museum. The images have been sourced from the museums photography collection and from public and private 1, Neale caught at the for 3 when the score was 35, just of December. It is now $7.00 for adults Glamorgan, Swansea, Wales 1977 (previously $5.00) and $3.00 for students collections. The photo mural was composed by the museums photographer Mike Lewis. before stumps. was sent in as nightwatchman, (previously $2.00). Children 12 years of age Glamorgan 309/4 decl. (M.J. Llewellyn 91*, G. Richards 74*, A. Jones 48; though search Wisden and the county yearbook and that and under have free entry if accompanied N. Gifford 3/91) and 142/7 (R. Ontong 56, J. Hopkins 45; J. Cumbes 3/30, will not be apparent, for the more usual scorebook is listed, by an adult (no change). This is the first V.A. Holder 3/48) drew with Worcestershire 169 (G.M. Turner 141*; time in over eight years that admission PLAYERS A.E. Cordle 5/53, M.A. Nash 3/51). with Cumbes in his customary position at No. 10. At stumps charges have been increased and reflects Worcestershire was 42 for two, Turner 39, and next morning, the upgraded and enhanced display the overnight pair added 33 for the third wicket before Cumbes changes in the museum in that time, plus was out for 5. Then there was a horrible middle-order collapse – suggestions from an increasing number of St. Helen’s Ground, Swansea, Wales 1979 visitors that our admission charges were 71 for four (Hemsley 3), 71 for 5 (D’Oliveira 0), 82 for six (Patel The photo shows a Benson & Hedges Cup Match in Progress too low. 4), 87 for seven (Humphries 0), 93 for eight (Holder 4 – and Photo: Unknown that was a snick through slips, according to Turner). Avoiding Source: ‘Cricket Grounds – Then and Now’ by William A Powell New NZCM Board Members Wallis Barnicoat and Trish McKelvey the follow-on seemed a distant impossibility, though nothing have recently been appointed as Trustees was impossible with the remarkable Turner still there. He had to the NZ Cricket Museum Trust Board. reached his 50 – actually 52 out of 59 – in the 23rd over, or 70 Wallis is a former Director of the minutes with his eighth four, and when David Humphries was Whanganui Regional Museum, a Manager of Museum Development at the Museum out at 87, Turner was 70. of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and is currently working on Project & Public Projects Development at Lateral Projects & Development in Melbourne. Trish is a former New Zealand cricketer and whose test career spanned the period 1966- 1978/9. She was also principal of Wellington Glenn Turner 1973 High School for seven years retiring in 1994 Worcestershire Cricket Team 1977 Photographer: Unknown and has since served on the boards of other Standing – l. to r.: Barry Jones, Cedric Boyns, Paul Pridgeon, John Inchmore, Private Collection educational institutions. She has received Jim Cumbes, Dipak Patel, Gordon Wilcock, David Humphries an MBE and is a Companion of the New Seated – l. to r.: Alan Ormrod, Basil D’Oliveira, (capt.), Zealand Order of Merit. She and Wallis will Glenn Turner, Ted Hemsley attend their first Board meeting at the end Photographer: Unknown of January or early February 2012. Collection: Worcestershire Club Above – Glenn Turner 1982 Cricket Trivia BROADCASTERS AND COMMENTATORS Arguably the most professional cricketer ever produced Photographer: PHOTOSPORT Source: PHOTOSPORT A set of cricket trivia questions – and by New Zealand, Glenn Turner made himself a household answers – is being prepared for New Glamorgan Cricket Team 1977 Left – Glenn Turner 1982 Zealand Cricket to use on digital screens name throughout the cricket world by dedicating himself to Standing – l. to r.: Alan Jones, John Hopkins, Tom Cartwright, Collis King, Photographer: Ken Kelly at the three New Zealand v South Africa cricket from an early age and making the best possible use of Rodney Ontong, Mike Llewellyn, Alan Wilkins, Frank Culverwell (scorer) Private Collection test match venues – , Hamilton Seated – l. to r.: Malcolm Nash, Eifion Jones, Alan Jones (capt.), Tony Cordle, and Wellington – in March 2012. They are a considerable natural ability. He deliberately enrolled in the Gwyn Richards, Arthur Francis (Western Mail) hard school of county cricket, learnt his lessons quickly and Photographer: Unknown designed to raise awareness of the museum and New Zealand cricket history. never forgot them. Source: ‘The History of Glamorgan County Cricket Club’ by Andrew Hignell But he needed someone to stay with him, and that prop came Turner commented “I can’t understand the other batsmen. Capital Times Article This was clearly manifest in one of Turner’s most astonishing in the predictable form of Norman Gifford, and with his As each of them came out, in what looked like a disaster area, The Wellington Capital Times newspaper innings when playing for Worcestershire against Glamorgan reassuring presence at the other end, Turner went to 101 – out I told them there was nothing wrong with the pitch, but they included a feature article on the museum at Swansea in 1977. By definition this was so, for Turner’s Director David Mealing in its 19-25 of 127! – in 173 minutes, and he had 14 boundaries. There had didn’t seem to believe me! Swansea has always been a good incredible domination of the Worcestershire innings brought October issue of the paper. The article been one blemish in this one-man spectacular, however, when ground for me, and there wasn’t really anything different was entitled “Timelessness, beauty and him 83.43% of the score, a world record, and eclipsing the Rodney Ontong dropped Turner on 92, at slip from the about this one, except the statistics. But for something like grace” and focused on the Director’s love of 79.84% by the Indian, V.S. Hazare (309 out of 387), for The Rest cricket and films. It was also an opportunity POETS of Malcolm Nash. He was given cause to rue this miss, for that to happen, the circumstances must fall right. We had against Hindus at Bombay in 1943/44. that was too good to miss to promote the Turner took to his off-spinners with great gusto, and the ninth that situation for a start, losing two , then Jimmy museum to Wellingtonians and visitors to Worcestershire came into this match on the back of an innings wicket partnership was worth 57, in only 50 minutes, before Cumbes, being a nightwatchman, was content to let me do the city. the scoring. Next came the middle-order collapse, and with us defeat by the eventual champions, Middlesex, a match Turner Gifford was caught at short-leg. But the first target, 160 to avoid Alun Jones trying to avoid the follow-on, the tail was playing for me. It had missed. Glamorgan, by contrast, had won their last game, the follow-on, was then beckoning, and though Paul Pridgeon It was with sadness that the museum lost their first championship victory for 10 months. Glamorgan scored no runs, he managed to stay there while Turner scored a all ended up designed for me to score the runs, but I remember one of its valued volunteers when Alun having won the toss, batted first and reached 309 for four by the further 19 for the tenth wicket and to pass the follow-on target. Giffy nicking one down leg-side and getting a four. That was Jones died in October. Originally from one of 14 scoring shots by the other batsmen in their 27 runs. Swansea Alun came to NZ in 1961 – for three 100 overs mark when their innings closed, the pitch offering Finally Pridgeon was lbw – the fourth dismissed in that fashion years! – but stayed - and played, coached little assistance to Vanburn Holder, Jim Cumbes and Paul in the innings – after the innings had lasted 216 minutes, The longer it went on, the worse I got, but I played one or two and umpired cricket. He was a secondary Pridgeon who only took one wicket between them. Turner finishing with 20 fours and one six. His own display and good shots, particularly through extra-cover, which is a shade school teacher by profession and also an unusual for me”. avid collector of books, magazines and the inept performance of the rest made look easy. programmes. Always willing to help and assist the museum in a number of different Sources: ‘Glenn Turner’s of Centuries’ by Ray Cairns and Glenn Turner, published by Hodder & ways, Alun will be greatly missed. Stoughton, London 1983, pgs 171,172; Glenn Turner Profile - adapted by Wisden from ‘World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary’ by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, published by Oxford 1996; The Cricketer, September 1996, pg.2.; ‘The Joy of Six: Great Forgotten Innings’ by Rob Bagchi, 10 June 2011.