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Test Cricket Tours - Australia to West Indies 1994-95


 

 

Tour of West Indies 1994-95                 Captain: Mark Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

61st Australian Test tour

 

Seventh Test-playing tour of West Indies by Australia

 

 

(February - May 1995)

 

 

Australia, described by Richie Richardson as the worst that Australia had put out, took on West Indies, the unofficial world champions, in a four-Test series. Though shoulder injuries put Fleming and McDermott out of the fast bowling attack, Glenn McGrath made a name for himself

Australia needed to win the fourth Test in Kingston when the series was tied at one-all. Teammate David Boon said he believed Waugh's "defining moment" was his epic 200 at Sabina Park which won the match. Waugh was always in the thick of it. The West Indians accused him of taking a catch off Lara on the bounce, which precipitated a collapse of West Indies' innings in the first Test and the subsequent ten wicket defeat.

There was a two-week visit to Bermuda at the end of the tour. On returning home the team was given a ticker-tape parade through Sydney to show the Frank Worrell Trophy to the crowds

 

 

Other Australian Tours

 

Previous tour

Pakistan 1994-95

 

Next tour

India 1996-97

 

Next tour of West Indies   1998-99   

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party (15  + 2)

 
 

Opening batsmen:  Michael Slater, Mark Taylor

Middle-order batsmen: David Boon, Greg Blewett, Ricky Ponting, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh

Wicket-keeper:  Ian Healy

Spin bowlers:Shane Warne, Tim May

Fast bowlers:  Glenn McGrath, Paul Reiffel, Damien Fleming (replaced by Brendon Julian), Craig McDermott (replaced by Carl Rackemann).

 

 

G S Blewett

SA

23

RHB

ODI

 

D C Boon

Tas

34

RHB  opener

ODI

 

D W Fleming

Vic

24

RFM

ODI

 

I A  Healy

Qld

30

WK    vice-captain

ODI

 

J L Langer

WA

24

LHB

ODI

 

C J McDermott

Qld

29

RF

ODI

 

G D McGrath

NSW

25

RF

ODI

 

T B A May

SA

33

OB

ODI

 

R T Ponting

Tas

20

RHB

ODI

 

P R Reiffel

Vic

28

RFM

ODI

 

M J Slater

NSW

25

RHB  opener

ODI

 

M A Taylor

NSW

30

LHB  opener     captain

ODI

 

S K Warne

Vic

26

LBG

ODI

 

M E Waugh

NSW

29

RHB

ODI

 

S R Waugh

NSW

29

RHB          RM

ODI

 

 

  

  

 

State representation

  Sheffield Shield teams

 

N   New South Wales (5)

Q  Queensland (2)

S   South Australia (2)

T   Tasmania (2)

V   Victoria (3)

W  Western Australia (1)

 

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(31 March 1995) : 

   27 yrs  8 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

ODI  -  all members of the tour party played in at least one one-day international

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Boon 97,  S R Waugh 72,  Healy 69,  McDermott 65,  MA Taylor 62,  M E Waugh 44,  Warne 34,  May 24,  Slater 23,  Rackemann 12,  Reiffel 12,  McGrath 9,  Langer 6,  Fleming 4,  Blewett 2,  Julian 2,  Ponting 0.. 

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Jack Edwards

Tour manager

Bob Simpson

Coach

Errol Alcott

Physiotherapist

Mike Walsh

Scorer

 

Jack Edwards, President of the Victorian Cricket Association, had been a Director on the Australian Cricket Board since 1984.  With this tour Mike Walsh became the on-tour scorer (later computer analyst) until October 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Laurie Sawle (chairman),  Bob Simpson,  Jim Higgs,  Steve Benard,  and Trevor Hohns met in Adelaide.

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

Tour Party Announced:  20 February 1995.

Not selected:  Jo Angel, Damien Martyn, Stuart Law.

The bulk of the team was made up of the squad playing a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand.

 

Time between selection and departure from Australia  

     8 days

(20 February - 28 February

 

 

 

 

Travel

Sydney   Q   London  Q  Barbados

 

On Tuesday 28 February the team flew from Kingsford-Smith Airport, Sydney. The first leg of the journey was 8½ hours to Hong Kong; then 14 ½ hours to London’s Heathrow Airport. There was a two-day stopover in London. On 3 March 1995 they flew from Gatwick Airport to Bridgetown, Barbados, which took a further 8 hours.

 

 

Time spent in West Indies

   65 days

(3 March - 7 May)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection

 

Mark Taylor (captain),  Ian Healy (vice-captain),  Bob Simpson (coach).

 

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

B P Julian

W

24

RHB     LFM

ODI

 

Damien Fleming broke down while bowling in the third ODI in Port of Spain, damaging the rotator cuff tendon in his shoulder. He remained with the team going to St Vincent but then returned to Melbourne for specialist treatment.

Brendon Julian was chosen on 15 March to replace him. He flew to Georgetown, Guyana, and subsequently played in all four Test matches.


 

C G Rackemann

Q

34

OB

ODI

 

Carl Rackemann who had not played for Australia since 1991, was named as a replacement for Craig McDermott on 30 March. Like Fleming, McDermott had a strained tendon in shoulder of his bowling arm but it was jumping from a seawall while on a run in Guyana that put him out of the tour with a damaged ankle..

Coach Bob Simpson, 59, was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a blood clot in his leg and was ordered to remain there for a week while doctors assessed the extent of a thrombosis.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

a

† Bridgetown

Barbados XI

Won 52 r

b

§ Bridgetown

West Indies  (1st ODI)

Lost 6 r

c

§ Port of Spain

West Indies  (2nd ODI)

Won 26 r

d

§ Port of Spain

West Indies  (3rd ODI)

Lost 134 r

e

§ Kingstown, St Vincent

West Indies  (4th ODI)

Lost 7 w

f

§ Bourda, Georgetown

West Indies  (5th ODI)

Lost 5 w

g

Georgetown

Guyana

Won inns 64 r

h

Castries

West Indies Board President's XI

Drawn

i

BRIDGETOWN

WEST INDIES  First Test

WON 10 w

j

ST JOHN'S, ANTIGUA

WEST INDIES  Second Test

DRAWN

k

Basseterre

West Indies Board XI

Drawn

l

PORT OF SPAIN

WEST INDIES  Third Test

LOST 9 w

m

KINGSTON

WEST INDIES  Fourth Test

WON inns 53 r

 

 

 

 

n

ϯ St George’s

St George’s CC  (50 overs)

Won 53 r

o

ϯ St David’s

Bermuda Board President’s XI (50 overs)

Won 32 r

p

ϯ Somerset

Bermuda(50 overs)

Won 18 r

 

 

 

not first-class

 

§  one-day international

 

 

 

Time spent in West Indies before First Test: 

  28 days

(3 March - 31 March)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

4  -   Blewett,  Boon,  Healy,  Julian,  McGrath,  Reiffel,  Slater,  Taylor,  Warne,  ME Waugh,  SR Waugh.

0  -   Fleming,  Langer,  McDermott,  May,  Ponting,  Rackemann.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   N

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

  P

 W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

  4

  2

1

1

-

Other first-class matches

  3

  1

0

2

-

ϯ Minor matches

  4

  4

0

0

-

§ One-day internationals

  5

  1

4

0

-

All Matches

16

  8

5

3

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Australia

Hamilton   Q  London   Q  Sydney

 

 

After winning the fourth Test win against West Indies, the team played golf and wound down after a long tour. On 7 May the team flew to Bermuda, joined by wives and partners, for some rest and recreation and to play in three light-hearted matches.

Some of the players then took holidays. A small group (Taylor, McGrath, Healy, Boon, Rackemann) arrived back at Sydney on 19 May with the Frank Worrell Trophy.

Dressed in their horizontal striped green and gold blazers, the players were given a ticker tape parade through crowds of 150 000 people in Sydney on 29 June.

 

 

 

Time away from Australia

      80 days  

(28 February  to 19 May)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

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Written accounts of the tour

 

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Postscript

 

 

 

 




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