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{{Short description|International cricket tour}}
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The [[South Africa national cricket team]] toured [[New Zealand]] in February and March 1964 and played a three-match [[Test cricket|Test series]] against the [[New Zealand national cricket team]]. All three matches were drawn. Prior to this series, the South Africans had just played a [[South African cricket team in Australia in 1963–64|five-Test series in Australia]]<nowiki/>m, which was drawn 1–1.

==South African team==
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* [[Trevor Goddard (cricketer)|Trevor Goddard]] (captain)
* [[Peter van der Merwe (cricketer)|Peter van der Merwe]] (vice-captain)
* [[Eddie Barlow]]
* [[Colin Bland]]
* [[Peter Carlstein]]
* [[Buster Farrer]]
* [[Clive Halse]]
* [[Denis Lindsay (cricketer)|Denis Lindsay]]
* [[Joe Partridge]]
* [[David Pithey]]
* [[Tony Pithey]]
* [[Graeme Pollock]]
* [[Peter Pollock]]
* [[John Waite (cricketer)|John Waite]] 
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[[Kelly Seymour]], who had been with the team in Australia, returned to South Africa before the New Zealand leg of the tour to study for his medical exams. Graeme Pollock and Clive Halse were suffering from injuries, and Peter Carlstein returned to South Africa during the First Test when he received news that his wife and three of their four children had been killed in a car crash.<ref>Colin Bryden, ''All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story'', Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 83–85.</ref> For much of the tour only eleven players were available to play.

The manager was [[Ken Viljoen]].

==Test series summary==

===First Test===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 21–25 February 1964 (4–day match)
| team1 = {{cr-rt|RSA|1928}}
| team2 = {{cr|NZL}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 302 (131.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Peter van der Merwe (cricketer)|PL van der Merwe]] 44
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Frank Cameron|FJ Cameron]] 3/58 (30 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 253 (152.5 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Murray Chapple|ME Chapple]] 59
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Peter Pollock|PM Pollock]] 6/47 (31.5 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 218/2[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (66 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Eddie Barlow|EJ Barlow]] 92
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[John Richard Reid|JR Reid]] 1/55 (21 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 138/6 (76 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Graham Gedye|SG Gedye]] 52
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Peter Pollock|PM Pollock]] 2/31 (16 overs)

| result = Match drawn
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26600.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Basin Reserve]], [[Wellington]]
| umpires = [[Douglas Dumbleton|DP Dumbleton]] and [[Trevor Martin (umpire)|WT Martin]]
| toss = South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain = 23 February was taken as a rest day.
| notes =  [[Graham Gedye|SG Gedye]] and [[John Ward (New Zealand cricketer)|JT Ward]] (both NZ) made their Test debuts.
}}

===Second Test===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 28 February–3 March 1964 (4–day match)
| team1 = {{cr-rt|NZL}}
| team2 = {{cr|RSA|1928}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 149 (94 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Barry Sinclair|BW Sinclair]] 52
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Joe Partridge|JT Partridge]] 4/51 (34 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 223 (105.2 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Trevor Goddard (cricketer)|TL Goddard]] 63
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[John Richard Reid|JR Reid]] 6/60 (35 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 138 (84.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Bob Blair (cricketer)|RW Blair]] 26[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[David Pithey|DB Pithey]] 6/58 (35 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 42/3 (7 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Colin Bland|KC Bland]] 16[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Bob Blair (cricketer)|RW Blair]] 2/16 (3 overs)

| result = Match drawn
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26607.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Carisbrook]], [[Dunedin]]
| umpires = [[Donald Burns|DC Burns]] and [[Harold Cassie|HB Cassie]]
| toss = New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain = 1 March was taken as a rest day.
| notes = ''[[Wynne Bradburn|WP Bradburn]] (NZ) made his Test debut.''
*''South Africa were set 65 to win in 27 minutes.''
}}

===Third Test===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 13–17 March 1964 (4–day match)
| team1 = {{cr-rt|RSA|1928}}
| team2 = {{cr|NZL}}

| score-team1-inns1 = 371 (125.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Colin Bland|KC Bland]] 83
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Bob Blair (cricketer)|RW Blair]] 4/85 (36 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 263 (131.3 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Barry Sinclair|BW Sinclair]] 138
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Joe Partridge|JT Partridge]] 6/86 (40 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 200/5[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (64.4 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Eddie Barlow|EJ Barlow]] 58
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Bob Blair (cricketer)|RW Blair]] 3/57 (21 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 191/8 (101 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Graham Gedye|SG Gedye]] 55
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Trevor Goddard (cricketer)|TL Goddard]] 4/18 (17 overs)

| result = Match drawn
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26619.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Eden Park]], [[Auckland]]
| umpires = [[John Brown (umpire)|JMA Brown]]  and [[Tony Mackintosh|ECA Mackintosh]]
| toss = New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
| rain = 15 March was taken as a rest day.
| notes = ''[[Bob Cunis|RS Cunis]] (NZ) made his Test debut.''
*''New Zealand were set 309 to win in 313 minutes. The last 13 minutes of play were lost to rain.''
}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Events/0/South_Africa_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand_1963-64.html South Africa in Australia and New Zealand 1963-64] at CricketArchive

==Further reading==
* [[Don Neely]] & Richard Payne, ''Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985'', Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 330–34
* [[Peter Pollock]], ''The Thirty Tests'', Don Nelson, Cape Town, 1978, pp. 43–47
* [[R.S. Whitington]], ''Bradman, Benaud and Goddard's Cinderellas'', Rigby, 1964, pp. 221–37
* ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1965, pp. 838–42
* Colin Bryden, ''All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story'', Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 83–86

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