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⭐Serious

New Zealand's First Test — Christchurch, January 1930

New Zealand v England

1930-01-10

On 10 January 1930 New Zealand played their first Test match, against an MCC side at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. Tom Lowry captained the home team and Stewie Dempster batted nearly four hours for 136 in the second innings. England won by eight wickets but New Zealand's elevation to Test status was the inter-war period's quiet expansion of the international game.

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⭐Mild

Stewie Dempster — New Zealand's Pre-Test Star, 1929

New Zealand v England

1929-12-15

In New Zealand's first home Test series in 1929-30, the 26-year-old Stewie Dempster scored 136 in the second Test at Wellington, partnered by Jackie Mills's 117 in an opening stand of 276 — the highest first-wicket partnership made in a Test by any country to that point and the founding statement of New Zealand Test batting.

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