The Pakistan national cricket team toured New Zealand in January and February 1973 and played a three-match Test series against the New Zealand national cricket team. Pakistan won the series 1-0. It was their first Test series win outside Pakistan. In addition, a Limited Overs International (LOI) took place between the second and third Tests; this match was the inaugural LOI of both teams.
Touring team
Intikhab Alam (captain) Asif Iqbal Asif Masood Azmat Rana Majid Khan Majid Usman Masood Iqbal Mushtaq Mohammad Nasim-ul-Ghani Pervez Sajjad Sadiq Mohammad Saleem Altaf Sarfraz Nawaz Talat Ali Wasim Bari Wasim Raja Zaheer Abbas
Azmat Rana and Wasim Raja had replaced Mohammad Ilyas and Saeed Ahmed after the Australian leg of the tour.
Test series summary
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
ODI match
{ { Limited overs matches|
| date = February 11, 1973
| team1 =
| score1 = 187 (38.3 overs) | score2 = 165 (33.3 overs) | team2 = | runs1 = Mark Burgess 47 (68) | wickets1 = Sarfraz Nawaz 4/46 (7.3 overs) | runs2 = Sadiq Mohammad 37 (50) | wickets2 = Dayle Hadlee 4/34 (8 overs) | result = won by 22 runs | report = scorecardreport | toss = Pakistan won the toss and decided to field | venue = Lancaster Park, Christchurch | umpires = F.R. Goodall (NZ) & E.G. Wainscott (NZ)| | rain = | notes = This was the first ever ODI match for Pakistan and New Zealand. Peter Coman, Glenn Turner, Bevan Congdon, Brian Hastings, Mark Burgess, Graham Vivian, Ken Wadsworth, Dayle Hadlee, Richard Hadlee, Hedley Howarth, Richard Collinge (NZ), Intikhab Alam, Sadiq Mohammad, Majid Khan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal, Wasim Raja, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Wasim Bari, Saleem Altaf, Sarfraz Nawaz and Asif Masood (Pak) all made their ODI debuts.New Zealand registered their first ever ODI win.}}
References
External links
Pakistan tour of New Zealand 1973, Wisden 1974'', R.T. Brittenden on ESPN Cricinfo