The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1965 season, playing three Test matches in the first half of a damp summer.
However, the success and popularity of the 1963 West Indies tourists led to demands for an early return visit, so schedules were rearranged and New Zealand and South Africa "doubled up" in 1965, the first time this arrangement, now commonplace, had happened.
The New Zealand team arrived in England at the end of the most intensive period of Test cricket in the country's history.
At the other end of the scale were several promising batsmen, including Bev Congdon and Barry Sinclair, and young seam bowlers in Richard Collinge and Bruce Taylor.
England too were in transition, with no obvious fast-bowling candidates coming through to replace veterans Brian Statham and Fred Trueman; and batsmen such as Peter May and Ted Dexter either retired or nearing the ends of their careers.
A party of 15 players left New Zealand for the six-months world tour, but that number had increased to 16 by the time the team reached England.
Reid and Dick became John Snow's first Test victims on his debut, but Pollard (55) and Taylor (51) added 92 for the seventh wicket.
Injuries to Boycott and Dexter led to the recall of John Edrich and Barrington, and their stand of 369 for the second wicket sealed the match.
The match was all but finished by Titmus taking four wickets in an over, Yuile, Taylor, Motz and Collinge falling respectively to the first, third, fourth and sixth balls.
They won three of the first-class games and lost three, though their victories included the matches against Scotland and Ireland, both at that time weaker than the county teams the tourists met.
In the second innings, Brian Statham and Ken Higgs reduced the tourists to 8 for six wickets (with Vivian unable to bat).
Off the back of this heavy defeat, the New Zealanders produced one of their better performances, coming from a first-innings deficit to beat Gloucestershire by four wickets.
Motz, who took five wickets in the county's second innings, settled the match by hitting three sixes off the England off-spinner John Mortimore.
The traditional match between the tourists and the MCC at Lord's saw the New Zealanders have the best of a drawn game against a side containing 10 present or future Test players.
Between the first and second Tests the New Zealanders played four county teams, losing the first match to Yorkshire and drawing the other three with Glamorgan, Surrey and Somerset in succession.
Against Surrey Cameron took five for 73 and the New Zealanders batted strongly, with Morgan scoring 110 and Dick, Sinclair and Taylor making fifties in a total of 422 for nine declared in reply to the home team's 248.
The New Zealanders had the better of the first innings in the Kent match, declaring on 360 for 8 in reply to the home team's 213 all out in which Cameron's four for 40 was the pick of the bowling.
An unbeaten partnership of 255 three hours between John Jameson and Tom Cartwright, who scored 137 and 112 respectively allowed Warwickshire to declare on 319 for four.
This left the home team a target of 198 in just over two-and-a-half hours, which they accomplished with one wicket down and 12 minutes to spare.