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England v New Zealand 1983 and West Indies 1983 - autographed CL junior size bat (655 mm) signed in ink,
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Including: Richard Hadlee, Ewen Chatfield, Martin Crowe, Lance Cairns, Geoff Howarth, John Bracewell This New Zealand tour of England is a genuinely historic series, as New Zealand won a Test in England for the very first time - a four-match Test series, which England won 3–1 with no matches drawn. New Zealand won the second Test of the series — their first-ever Test win in England, after 29 previous attempts. This was also, importantly a New Zealand touring party built around the core of their recent successes in both Test and one-day cricket — Geoff Howarth, Richard Hadlee and John Wright all knew English conditions intimately from regular county cricket, while Lance Cairns, Martin Crowe and Evan Gray had recently played English league cricket, and Jeff Crowe had five years' Sheffield Shield experience — Wisden judged no previous New Zealand touring side had boasted such collective experience of English conditions. In the landmark second test Jeremy Coney hit the winning runs and reflected afterward that he'd been thinking of all the New Zealand players who'd toured England across 52 years without ever managing this, wanting to make sure their efforts hadn't been in vain. Hadlee's first-innings 75 had been central to building New Zealand's crucial 152-run lead, and he was at the non-striker's end when the winning runs were struck This bat also has team signatures of the West Indies 1983 team from the Prudential World Cup of that year. This team have been described as arguably the greatest one-day side ever assembled at that point featuring Lloyd, Richards, Greenidge, Haynes, Holding, Marshall, Garner and Roberts amongst others. The West Indian signatures are largely faded.
