The MCC team was captained by Archie MacLaren and included Tich Freeman, Freddie Calthorpe, Percy Chapman and Clement Gibson.
The England team was captained by Harold Gilligan and included Frank Woolley, Duleepsinhji and Stan Nichols.
The New Zealand section of the tour began in December and, in addition to the Test series, England played each of Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.
Sir Julien Cahn's cricket team, captained by George Heane, toured New Zealand in February and March 1939 to play ten matches including one first-class fixture against the New Zealand national cricket team at Basin Reserve; this match was drawn.
[1] A planned tour by a team of English amateurs in 1920–21, to be led by the Kent captain Lionel Troughton,[2] had to be called off as the New Zealand Cricket Council was unable to raise sufficient money.
[5][6] A request by the New Zealand Cricket Council for a two-Test tour by Australia in early 1931 was turned down by the Australian authorities on the grounds that their players needed a rest after a busy year of two five-Test series.