Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1920–21

[1] 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.

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.

[6] 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.

Tasman Drake, an Anglican minister who was serving in Gisborne at the time.

[23] 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 Taupō on 9 April, for which no scores are available.

[27][28][29] The tour was financially successful, leaving the New Zealand Cricket Council with a surplus of £1000.