#wellington

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Chappell Brothers — Twin Centuries Each at Wellington, 1974

Australia vs New Zealand

1-6 March 1974

At the Basin Reserve in March 1974, Greg Chappell made 247 not out and 133, and his elder brother Ian Chappell made 145 and 121 — the only instance in Test history of two brothers each scoring a hundred in both innings of the same match. Greg's 380 runs in the Test stood as the world record for runs by a player in one Test until Graham Gooch's 333 and 123 against India at Lord's in July 1990.

#Greg Chappell#Ian Chappell#twin centuries

⭐Moderate

Ray Lindwall's Test Debut — Wellington, March 1946

Australia v New Zealand

1946-03-29

Ray Lindwall — recently demobilised from the Australian Army's New Guinea campaign — took the new ball in his Test debut at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, on 29 March 1946. He took 1/13 and 1/16 in a match completed in two days as New Zealand were dismissed for 42 and 54. Decades later the ICC retrospectively granted the fixture full Test status (March 1948 ratification), confirming Lindwall's first cap in the same match in which Bill O'Reilly bowled the last over of his Test career.

#lindwall#test-debut#australia

⭐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.

#stewie-dempster#new-zealand#test-batting

⭐Mild

Cricket in Wellington's Army — Spain, Summer 1812

Officers vs 28th Foot

1812-07-15

In summer 1812, two days before the battle of Salamanca, officers of Wellington's army played a cricket match against the rank-and-file of the 28th Regiment of Foot on a flat field outside the city. The match — the earliest documented cricket fixture played by British troops on the European mainland — was recorded in an officer's diary that survives in the National Army Museum. It is the foundation entry of military cricket overseas.

#regency-cricket#underarm#peninsular-war