Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1920–21
An Australian cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1921 to play nine first-class matches including two against New Zealand. The Australians also played the main provincial teams. The touring team. The Australian team, with ages at the start of the tour, was: The manager was Tom Howard of New South Wales. As the Test series against England was still in progress when the tour began, the team for New Zealand was virtually an Australian second eleven. None of the players had taken part in the Test series. The  only player with Test experience was Ransford, who played 20 Tests before World War I. John Ellis, Hunter Hendry, Johnny Moyes, Arthur Richardson, Donald Steele (named as captain) and Carl Willis were selected but were unavailable. They were replaced by Bogle, Forssberg, Hornibrook, Kippax and Waddy. The tour. The Australians arrived in Wellington on the SS "Manuka" on 7 February. They were given a civic reception on 8 February at the Town Hall, with speeches of welcome from the mayor, John Luke, and Sir Francis Bell, president of the Wellington Cricket Association. First-class matches are indicated in bold. This  was one of two scheduled two-day first-class matches in the tour. It was the last first-class match for Hawke's Bay, who played 53 first-class matches between 1884 and 1921. Their top scorer in each innings was Bob Bishop, who made 61 and 60. Ransford made 158, "retired out". The match was scheduled for three days but completed in two. This match was the only first-class match ever played by the Minor Associations, and for six of their team it was their only first-class match. They included the Rev. Tasman Drake, an Anglican minister  who was serving in Gisborne at the time. Rain prevented play on the second day. This was a two-day first-class match, and the last of the eight first-class matches Southland played between 1915 and 1921. Most of the first day was lost to rain. Liddicut top-scored in each innings for Australia with 83 and 49 not out. The New Zealand captain Stan Brice took 7 for 80 in the first innings. The gate takings of 925 pounds were a record for a match in New Zealand. The Australians made their runs off 108 eight-ball overs  in 430 minutes. Richardson made 112, Lampard 132, and Ransford 128. Lampard also took seven wickets and Ironmonger nine. Sydney Smith was New Zealand's top scorer with 89 in the first innings. During a week of sightseeing and recreation in the central hot springs region of the North Island, the Australians also won a light-hearted one-day match against a team of locals in Taupo on 9 April, for which no scores are available. They left Auckland for Sydney on the SS "Maheno" on 14 April.