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Test Cricket Tours - Australia to Pakistan 1988-89

 

 

Tour of Pakistan 1988-89             Captain: Allan Border

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

52nd Test tour

 

Sixth Test-playing tour of Pakistan  by 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.

 

 

Other Australian Tours

 

Previous tour

India 1986-87

 

Next tour

England 1989

 

Next tour of Pakistan

1994-95

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party  (15)

 

 

Opening batsmen: David Boon, Graeme Wood, Geoff Marsh.

Middle-order batsmen: Allan Border, Dean Jones, Jamie Siddons, Steve Waugh, Mike Veletta.

Wicket-keepers: Ian Healy

Spin bowlers:  Tim May, Peter Taylor, Peter Sleep.

Fast bowlers : Bruce Reid, Tony Dodemaine, Craig McDermott.

 

 

D C Boon

T

27

RHB  opener

 

 

A R Border

Q

33

LHB     SLA     captain

 

 

A I C Dodemaine

V

24

RFM

 

 

I A Healy

Q

24

WK

 

 

D M Jones

V

27

RHB  ¬

 

 

C J McDermott

Q

23

RF

 

 

G R Marsh

W

29

LHB  opener  vice-captain

 

 

T B A May

S

26

OB

 

 

B A Reid

W

25

LFM

 

 

J D Siddons

V

24

RHB

 

 

P R Sleep

S

31

LBG

 

 

P L Taylor

N

32

OB

 

 

M R J Veletta

W

24

RHB     reserve WK

 

 

S R Waugh

N

23

RHB      RM

 

 

G M Wood

W

31

LHB  opener

 

 

¬  Dean Jones was captain in the match at Quetta

 

 

 

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State representation

   Sheffield Shield teams

 

N   New South Wales (2)

Q  Queensland (3)

S   South Australia (2)

T   Tasmania (1)

V   Victoria  (3)

W  Western Australia (4)

 

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

  (23 September 1988:

   27 yrs  3 months.

 

 

 

 

ODI played in the one-day series

 

 

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Border 94,  Wood 53,  Boon 28,  McDermott 22,  Marsh 19,  Steve Waugh 18,  Jones 15,  Reid 15,  Sleep 11,  Veletta 5,  Dodemaine 3,  Peter Taylor 3,  Healy 0,  May 0,  Siddons 0.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Colin Egar

Tour manager

Bob Simpson

Assistant manager/coach

Errol Alcott

Physiotherapist

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

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

Brisbane   Q   Lahore 

 

 

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).

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

None

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

a

Rawalpindi

President's XI

Cancelled

b

Lahore

B C C P  Patron's XI

Drawn

c

Quetta

Baluchistan Governor's XI

Drawn

d

KARACHI 

PAKISTAN  First Test

LOST inns 188 r

e

FAISALABAD 

PAKISTAN  Second Test

DRAWN

f

§ Gujranwala

Pakistan  (1st ODI)

Abandoned

g

Peshawar

N W F P Governor's XI

Drawn

h

LAHORE 

PAKISTAN  Third Test

DRAWN

i

§ Lahore

Pakistan  (2nd ODI)

Lost (on wickets fallen)

j

§ Hyderabad

Pakistan  (3rd ODI)

Cancelled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

† not first-class

§  one-day internationals

 

 

 

Time spent in Pakistan before First Test:    

    19 days

(4 September - 23 September)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

3  -  Boon,  Border,  Dodemaine,  Healy,  Jones,  Marsh,  May,  Reid,  Waugh,  Wood

2  -  Taylor

1  -  Sleep

0  -  McDermott,  Siddons,  Veletta.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

 

   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

Karachi   Q   ? 

 

 

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.

 

 



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