[3] He was immediately selected to play in one of the trial matches to help the selectors choose the team to tour England in 1958, but he was not successful.

[4] He did not play first-class cricket again until late in 1960, but he captained the New Zealand Colts team on its tour of Australia in the 1959–60 season.

[4] Hastings struggled in subsequent seasons until 1964–65, when he made 629 runs for Canterbury at an average of 62.90, characterised by firm driving and crisp square-cutting.

[13] He scored 105 in the Third Test in the West Indies in 1971–72, adding 175 for the fourth wicket with Bevan Congdon; New Zealand went on to a 289-run first-innings lead, but were unable to convert it into victory.

[15] In the Second Test in Sydney in 1973–74 he made a punishing 83 to set New Zealand up for a likely victory, only for the last day to be rained out.

[2] He then joined his former Test teammate Graham Vivian in his artificial turf supply business.

[20] Hastings died at Parklands Retirement Village in the Christchurch suburb of Papanui, on 7 October 2024, at the age of 84.