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Test Cricket Tours - Australia to West Indies 1998-99

 

 

Tour of West Indies 1998-99                 Captain: Steve Waugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

67th Test tour

 

Eighth Test-playing tour of West Indies by Australia

 

 

 

(February - April 1999)

 

West Indies capitulated in the first Test - all out for 51, losing by an innings - which prolonged their dreadful run of results (they had just been beaten 5-0 in South Africa). Then Brian Lara almost single-handedly turned the series round by masterminding victories in the 2nd and 3rd Tests: he played two of the greatest innings seen in Test cricket. However, even though he scored another hundred in the last Test, the Australians won in Antigua to square the series which allowed them to retain the Frank Worrell Trophy.

The fifth one-day international at Bourda ended in chaos with the crowd invading the playing area and seizing the stumps as the Australian batsmen turned for a third run to bring the scores level. Match referee Raman Subba Row viewed video evidence and ordered that the result should be a tie.  Of greater concern than results were the inadequate arrangements for the players' safety.  In the 7th ODI at Bridgetown things were no better: fans showered the ground with bottles in protest at Sherwin Campbell's run out.

 

 

Other Australian Tours

 

Previous tour

Pakistan 1998-99

 

Next tour

Sri Lanka 1999

 

 

Next tour of West Indies  2002-03   

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party (15   +  1)

 

 

Opening batsmen:  Matthew Elliott, Michael Slater

Middle-order batsmen:Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Greg Blewett, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh.

Wicket-keeper:  Ian Healy (with Adam Gilchrist on stand-by)

Spin bowlers: Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill, Colin Miller

Fast bowlers:  Andy Bichel, Adam Dale, Jason Gillespie  Glenn McGrath.

 

 

A J Bichel

Q

28

RFM

-

 

G S Blewett

S

27

RHB

-

 

A C Dale

Q

30

RFM

ODI   w/d

 

M T G Elliott

V

27

LHB  opener

-

 

J N Gillespie

S

23

RFM

-

 

I A Healy

Q

34

WK

-

 

J L Langer

W

28

LHB  opener

-

 

S C G MacGill

N

28

LBG

-

 

G D McGrath

N

29

RF

ODI

 

C R Miller

T

35

RHB          OB

-

 

R T Ponting

T

24

RHB

ODI

 

M J Slater

N

29

RHB  opener

-

 

S K Warne

V

29

LBG      vice-captain

ODI

 

M E Waugh

N

33

RHB         RM

ODI

 

S R Waugh

N

33

RHB        (RM)      captain

ODI

 

Included only for the one-day

M G Bevan  (N)

ODI

internationals

D W Fleming  (V)

ODI

 

A C Gilchrist  (W)

ODI

 

B P Julian  (W)

ODI

 

S Lee  (N)

ODI

 

D S Lehmann  (S)

ODI

 

D R Martyn  (W)

ODI

 

T M Moody  (W)

ODI

 

P R Reiffel  (V)

ODI

 

 

 

 

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State representation

  Sheffield Shield teams

N   New South Wales (5)

Q  Queensland (3)

S   South Australia (2)

T   Tasmania (2)

V   Victoria (2)

W  Western Australia (1)

 

 

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

    (5 March 1999) :

   29  yrs  7 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

ODI- member of the squad for Cable & Wireless one-day internationals

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Healy 114,  SR Waugh 114,  ME Waugh 89,  Warne 71,  McGrath 48,  Slater 48,  Blewett 33,  Ponting 23,  Elliott 20,  Langer 19,  Gillespie 12,  MacGill 11,  Miller 6,  Bichel 3,  Dale 1  [Gilchrist 0].

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Steve Bernard

Manager

Geoff Marsh

Coach

Errol Alcott

Physiotherapist

David Misson

Fitness adviser

Michael Walsh

Computer analyst

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Trevor Hohns (chairman),  Allan Border,  Andrew Hilditch and  Geoff Marsh.

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

The appointments of captain and vice-captain were decided by the Australian Cricket Board's directors at their full meeting in Melbourne on Friday 12 February 1999.

Unavailable: After a long period considering whether to retire after the Ashes series against England, Mark Taylor stood down from the Australian captaincy on 2 February.

Tour Party Announced:  8 February 1999.

Not selected :

 

When the names of the players for the ODI series were announced on 24 March only six members of the Test tour party were included.

 

 

Time between selection and departure from Australia

   9 days

(8 February - 17 February)

 

 

 

 

Travel

Sydney  Q Antigua

 

 

The team gathered in Sydney, flying out on 17 February.   They arrived in Barbados on a British Airways flight and after a two-hour stopover, took at BWIA flight to Antigua on 19 February.

Nine players joined the squad for the one-day internationals.

 

Time spent in West Indies

  71 days

(19 February - 1 May)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection

 

Steve Waugh (captain),  Geoff Marsh (coach),  Shane Warne (vice-captain).

National selector Allan Border was co-opted to the panel to decide that Shane Warne would not play in the fifth Test.

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

A C Gilchrist

W

27

WK      LHB

ODI

 

Ian Healy had injuries to his calf muscles so Adam Gilchrist was summoned and arrived in Antigua on 1 April, on standby ready to make his Test debut.

 

As the Test players went home, Andy Bichel was called back to join the one-day squad because Adam Dale had a chest infection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

a

St John's, Antigua

West Indies Board XI

Drawn

b

Pointe-a-Pierre

West Indies Board President's XI

Won inns 6 r

c

PORT OF SPAIN

WEST INDIES  First Test

WON 312 r

d

KINGSTON

WEST INDIES  Second Test

LOST 10 w

e

St John's

West Indies A

Won 154 r

f

BRIDGETOWN

WEST INDIES  Third Test

LOST 1 w

g

ST JOHN'S, ANTIGUA

WEST INDIES  Fourth Test

WON 176 r

h

§  Kingstown, St Vincent

West Indies  (1st ODI)

Lost 44 r

i

§  St George's, Grenada

West Indies  (2nd ODI)

Won 46 r

j

§  Port of Spain

West Indies  (3rd ODI)

Lost 5 w

k

§  Port of Spain

West Indies  (4th ODI)

Won 20 r

l

§  Georgetown

West Indies  (5th ODI)

Tied

m

§  Bridgetown

West Indies  (6th ODI)

Won 4 w

n

§  Bridgetown

West Indies  (7th ODI)

Lost 8 w

 

 

 

not first-class

§  one-day international

 

 

 

Time spent in West Indies before First Test: 

  14 days

(19 February - 5 March)

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

4  -   Healy,  Langer,  MacGill,  McGrath,  Slater,  M Waugh,  SR Waugh

3  -   Blewett,  Elliott,  Gillespie,  Warne

2  -   Ponting

1  -   Dale,  Miller

0  -   Bichel.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   Michael Slater scored 106 at Port of Spain to help build a winning Australian lead in the first Test.

   Glenn McGrath (5-28) and Jason Gillespie (4-18)  dismissed West Indies for 51, their lowest total in Tests

   McGrath took 30 wickets at 16.93, the most wickets ever taken by a bowler in a series in the West Indies.

   Steve Waugh scored 199 at Bridgetown, though his 72* at St John's was probably just as valuable.

   Waugh extended Mark Taylor's run of consecutive tosses won by Australia to a record 12 in a row.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

 P

 W

L

D

T

Aban

Test Matches

  4

 2

2

0

0

-

Other first-class matches

  3

 2

0

1

0

-

ϯ Minor matches

  0

 -

-

-

-

-

§ One-day internationals

  7

 3

3

0

1

-

All Matches

14

 7

5

1

1

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Australia

 

 

 

Bridgetown    Q  London

 

London    Q  Melbourne

 

 

Nine Test players went back to Australia after the Test series on c 9 April

Andy Bichel was recalled to St Vincent as stand-by for Adam Dale who had a chest infection, but the management then decided that both would return to Australia on 14 April.

On 1 May 1999 the 14 players in the one-day squad flew from Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados, to Gatwick Airport, London, to play in the 1999 World Cup in England.

The Australian players flew in to Melbourne on 23 June. As World Cup winners, they were given a ticker-tape parade and the keys to the city. A few days later another 100 000 fans watched the team parade the World Cup trophy through Sydney city centre.

 

 

Time away from Australia (including World Cup)

   126 days  

(17 February to 23 June)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

The West Indies tour was sponsored by Coca-Cola.

 

 

 

 

Written accounts of the tour

 

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Postscript

 

 

 

 



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