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Test Cricket Tours - West Indies to England 1980


 

 

Tour of England 1980               Captain: Clive Lloyd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23rd West Indies Test tour

 

Eleventh Test-playing tour of England by West Indies

 

 

 

  (May - August 1980)

 

 

In a cool, wet summer West Indies had insufficient time to complete victory in the last four Test matches.  England were incessantly on the defensive after almost winning the first Test match in a gripping finish at Trent Bridge.  Yet this Test, which they came closest to winning, was the only match that England lost.

Viv Richards was less of a power than on his first Test tour of England four years before but still returned an average of more than sixty, while Desmond Haynes showed he had made great progress with his record-breaking innings of 184 at Lord's.

No less than 93 per cent of their overs were delivered by the battery of five West Indian pace bowlers which provoked complaints from spectators as the game slowed down. But pressure to introduce legislation which would limit the run-up and improve over rates was short-lived.

When Lawrence Rowe dropped out of the tour and had to return home, Larry Gomes received an invitation to join the party as his replacement but declined, and the West Indians managed with only the occasional participation of Timur Mohammad.

Clive Lloyd, showing himself to be a great captain for unifying the regional team, was leading West Indies on an official Test-playing tour for a record fifth time; he was to do so many more times in future.

The team had disciplinary measures written into their tour contracts to avoid any repetition of the ill-discipline and controversial incidents on the recent New Zealand tour.

 

 

Other West Indies tours

 

 

Previous tour

New Zealand 1979-80

 

Next tour

Pakistan 1980-81

 

 

Next tour of England

1984

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party

(16 + 1)  

 

 

Opening batsmen:  Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Faoud Bacchus,  Timur Mohammad (reinforcement)

Middle-order batsmen:  Alvin Kallicharran, Collis King,  Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards,  Lawrence Rowe.

Wicket-keepers  David Murray, Deryck Murray

Spin bowler:  Derick Parry

Fast bowlers  Colin Croft, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall.

 

 

 

S F A Bacchus

G

26

RHB

 

C E H Croft

G

27

RF

 

J Garner

B

27

RF

 

C G Greenidge

B

29

RHB  opener

 

D L Haynes

B

24

RHB  opener

 

M A Holding

Ja

26

RF

 

A I Kallicharran

G

31

LHB

 

C L King

B

28

RHB   RM

 

C H Lloyd

G

35

LHB   captain

 

M D Marshall

B

22

RFM

 

D A David Murray

B

30

second WK

 

D L Deryck Murray

T

37

WK

 

D R Parry

L

25

OB

 

I V A Richards

L

28

RHB   vice-captain

 

A M E Roberts

L

32

RF

 

L G Rowe

Ja

30

RHB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regional representation :

  Shell Shield teams

B - Barbados (6)

G - Guyana (4)

Ja - Jamaica (2)

L - Leeward Islands (3)

T - Trinidad & Tobago (1)

 

 

  

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

 

(5 June 1980) :

     29 yrs  1 months

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Lloyd 70, Kallicharran 57, Deryck Murray 57, Roberts 32, Richards 31, Rowe 30, Greenidge 25, Holding 19, Croft 13, Garner 13, Parry 12, David Murray 9, Bacchus 8, Haynes 8, King 8, Marshall 3.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Clyde Walcott

Manager

Cammie Smith

Assistant Manager

Dennis Waight

Trainer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Clyde Walcott,  Calvin Wilkins,  Steve Camacho ; with Clive Lloyd (captain) co-opted.

 

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

Clive Lloyd was appointed captain on 12 April, and the touring side was selected over the weekend in Barbados.

Viv Richards (in preference to Deryck Murray) was named vice-captain on 18 April.

 

Unavailable:  H A Gomes (when invited to reinforce the team)

 

Tour Party Announced :   15 April 1980.

Only one change from the party that went to Australia and New Zealand —Guyanese opening

batsman Faoud Bacchus coming in for Larry Gomes.

Holding and Croft were told they would not tour unless they made an apology for incidents on the New Zealand 1979-80 tour.

 

Not selected :  Apart from Wayne Daniel, no notable players were left out.

 

 

 

Time between selection and departure from West Indies

  18 days

 (15 April  - 3 May)

 

 

 

 

Travel

BridgetownQ  London

 

Departure for the main party of eleven West Indians was from Barbados on the evening of 3 May 1980. They landed at London Airport on 4 May. Clive Lloyd, Gordon Greenidge and Alvin Kallicharran were already in England while Faoud Bacchus and Lawrence Rows flew out from Canada and Jamaica respectively.

The climax of the domestic one-day tournament in the West Indies was spoiled because the leading players had to join the tour of England.

 

 

Time spent in England

   103 days

(4 May - 15 August)

 

 

 

On-tour committee

 

Clyde Walcott (chairman),  Clive Lloyd,  Viv Richards,  Derryck Murray and  Cammie Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

Some time after Lawrence Rowe returned to Jamaica on 25 June with an optical problem, Larry Gomes (who was in Jamaica as coach to the touring Trinidad young cricketers) received an invitation to tour as Rowe's replacement. Gomes decided he was unfit and reminded the selectors he had not played for three months.

 

Timur Mohammad

G

23

LHB  opener

 

 Timur who was playing for Suffolk in the Minor Counties competition then joined the touring party but he played only twice.

Before the start of the fifth Test when Croft (thigh muscle), Garner (shoulder), Roberts (back) were all suffering injuries, the management tried to draft  Sylvester Clarke (Barbados /Surrey) or Wayne Daniel (Barbados / Middlesex) into the side.

Alvin Greenidge was called up from Holland where he played club cricket to field as substitute in The Oval Test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures /Results

 

a

† Arundel

Duchess of Norfolk's XI

Won 121 r

b

Worcester

Worcestershire

Won 7 w

c

Leicester

Leicestershire

Won inns 21 r

d

Milton Keynes

Northamptonshire

Won 6 w

e

† Lord's

Middlesex (one day)

Abandoned

f

† Lord's

Middlesex (one day)

Won 9 w

g

† Chelmsford

Essex (one-day)

Lost 5 w

h

† Chelmsford

Essex (one day)

Won 141 r

i

Chesterfield

Derbyshire

Won 9 w

j

§ Headingley

England (1st ODI)

Won 24 r

k

§ Lord's

England (2nd ODI)

Lost 3 w

l

Canterbury

Kent

Won 5 w

m

TRENT BRIDGE

ENGLAND  First Test

WON 2 w

n

† Cambridge

Oxford & Cambridge Universities

Won 10 w

o

Hove

Sussex

Drawn

p

LORD'S

ENGLAND  Second Test

DRAWN

q

† Dublin

Ireland

Drawn

r

† Dublin

Ireland

Won 73 r

s

Swansea

Glamorgan

Drawn

t

† Swansea

Glamorgan (one-day)

Won 5 w

u

Bristol

Gloucestershire

Won 58 r

v

Taunton

Somerset

Drawn

w

OLD TRAFFORD

ENGLAND  Third Test

DRAWN

x

  Dundee

Scotland

Drawn

y

  Dundee

Scotland

Won 80 r

z

Headingley

Yorkshire

Won 58 r

a’

KENNINGTON OVAL

ENGLAND  Fourth Test

DRAWN

b’

† Jesmond

Minor Counties

Drawn

c’

Edgbaston

Warwickshire

Drawn

d

HEADINGLEY

ENGLAND  Fifth Test

DRAWN

e’

† Stamford Bridge

Essex  (floodlit match)

Lost (run rate)

 

 

 

 

 

§  ODI (Prudential series)

not first-class

.

 

 

Time spent in England before First Test:  32 days

(4 May  - 5 June)

 

 

 

 

 

Time from end of final Test until departure from England

   3 days

(12 August  - 15 ? August)

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

5  -  Bacchus, Garner, Greenidge, Haynes, Holding, Kallicharran, Deryck Murray, Richards

4  -  Lloyd, Marshall

3  -  Croft, Roberts

1  -  King

0  -  David Murray, Parry, Rowe, Timur Mohammad.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   Haynes' 184 was the highest score made by a West Indian at Lord's

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

P

W

L

D

Test Matches

 5

 1

0

 4

Other first-class matches

11

 7

0

 4

ϯ Minor matches

13

 7

2

 4

§ One-day internationals

 2

 1

1

 0

All Matches

31

16

3

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to West Indies

LondonQ  Bridgetown

 

The team broke up after the floodlit game played at Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge ground. Most of the players went to their county and league commitments.

Managers Walcott and  Smith,  and players Desmond Haynes and David Murray arrived at Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados, on Saturday 16 August, with Deryck Murray and Roberts in transit to their islands.

 

 

Time away from West Indies

  105 days 

 (3 May  to 16 August)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

Profit for the West Indian Board was $EC 579 000.

Sportworld Limited arranged promotional activities to the amount of £60 000 sterling of which the players share was 60 per cent.

Holt Products Ltd sponsored the tourists' county programme with a jackpot of £100 000 available should they win all their three-day county fixtures. All prize money from the Cornhill Tests and Prudential one-day series went to the players.

 

 

 

 

Published accounts of the tour

 

 

 

 

 

Postscript

 

 

 

 




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