Test Cricket Tours - Australia to Pakistan 1988-89
Tour of Pakistan
1988-89Captain: Allan
Border
52nd
Test tour
Sixth Test-playing tour of Pakistanby Australia
(September -
October 1988)
It was decided on 24 August not
to cancel the tour, following President Zia ul Haq's death but there was much
disruption. The first three-day match had to be switched because
of Zia’s funeral?? and the second rearranged to fit in with a national holiday. The
first one-day international was cancelled because of heavy flooding while the
other two matches were overshadowed by violence in south Pakistan in
which 200 people lost their lives.
The Australian management
demanded that Mahboob Shah be replaced as umpire after his performance in the
first Test.
Lawrie Sawle (Western Australia - chairman),
Greg Chappell (Queensland),Jim Higgs (Victoria) and Bob Simpson (coach)
Selection
Mr Alan Crompton who had been
in charge of the Australian team in the 1987 World Cup was originally
appointed manager.
Unavailable: Simon O'Donnell.
Members of the unofficial tour party to South Africa remained
banned from Test cricket(TM Alderman, J Dyson, PI Faulkner, MD Haysman, TG
Hogan, RM Hogg, TV Hohns,KM Hughes,
RJ McCurdy, JN Maguire, CG Rackemann, SJ Rixon, G Shipperd, SB Smith, MD
Taylor and GN Yallop).
Tour Party Announced :1 April 1988.
Official standbys:Chris Matthews (W),Merv Hughes
(V),Mark Waugh (N)
Time between selection and departure from Australia
155 days
(1 April - 3 September)
Travel
BrisbaneQLahore
A pre-tour training camp was held in Brisbane in August,
practicing against leg-spinners including Peter Sleep, Trevor Hohns and Bob
Simpson.
On the eve of departure the Australian Cricket Board
Chairman Malcolm Gray spoke to the team about their responsibility to the
game of cricket on this tour.
After a thirty-hour flight leaving Brisbane on
Saturday 3 September to Karachi via Manila and Bangkok, the team reached
Karachi and made a brief stopover before finally landed on Sunday 4 September
at Lahore, to where the match was shifted from Rawalpindi after General Zia's
death in the August 17 plane crash.
Time spent in Pakistan
43 days
(4 September - 17 October)
On-tour
selection panel
Allan Border (captain),
Geoff Marsh (vice-captain).Bob
Simpson (coach).
•Allan Border scored 113
not out in the Test match at Faisalabad
•Geoff Marsh scored
half-centuries in each innings of the third Test
•
Tour
Summary
P
W
L
D
Aban
Cancel
Test Matches
3
0
1
2
-
-
Other first-class matches
3
0
0
3
-
1
ϯ Minor matches
0
-
-
-
-
-
§ One-day internationals
3
0
1
0
1
1
All Matches
10
0
2
5
1
2
-
Return
to Australia
KarachiQ?
The team reached Karachi from Lahore
on 15 October, and were due to fly next day but were delayed due to flight
problems until the next day.The team
left early on Karachi
on 17 October 1988.
Time away from Australia
45
days
(3 September to 18 October)
Finances
Written
accounts of the tour
Border praised his bowlers -
May, Reid, Dodemaine and Taylor
- but felt the batting was short of the mark while the catching was very
poor.