| Tour of Australia & New Zealand 1979-80 Captain: Clive Lloyd | |
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| 22nd West Indies
Test tour Sixth Test-playing tour by West Indies
to Australia Fourth Test tour of New Zealand (November
1979 - March 1980) | The tour was originally to
be made to Pakistan & New Zealand but was altered as part of the
settlement with Kerry Packer. This
marked the beginning of not only "Lloyd drawing together a team of
high professional standards but also he notion among West Indian cricketers
that they were disenfranchised professionals deserving of better market
rates” (Beckles) West
Indies had a mighty strong team, led by Richards hitting the
ball around with tremendous power and the awesome attack of four fast bowlers.
Kept fit by a rigorous new training regime, they relentlessly pressured the
Australian batsmen with pace and steep bounce. West Indies recorded two huge
wins (by ten wickets at Melbourne and by 408 runs at Adelaide) to take a Test
series in Australia for the first time, as well as winning the Benson &
Hedges one-day triangular tournament. The Australian public had a surfeit of
one-day cricket but match attendances continued to be high, such was the
appeal of Lloyd's formidable team. In New Zealand the march forward was
abruptly halted. The visitors narrowly lost one of the most acrimonious Test
series. The New Zealanders also won a one-day international to prove their
victory was no fluke. The West Indians blamed poor umpiring and demonstrated
their disappointment on the field - Holding kicking down the stumps in
frustration and Croft barging into umpire Goodall - as well as refusing to
take the field after tea unless Goodall was stood down. The Manager
complained there was no way they could win.
Although the West Indians discussed abandoning the tour and returning
home, they were firmly instructed by the West Indian Board to see it through
so the tour ran its course. However, it highlighted how, in this era of so
much international cricket, the visit to New Zealand tacked onto the end
of an Australian tour is a strain. In
fact the tour was originally to be made to Pakistan & New Zealand but was
altered as part of the settlement with Kerry Packer. Captain Clive Lloyd apologised for what
took place in a letter to Board President Jeffrey Stollmeyer, saying the
behaviour was unprofessional but that the team were mentally and physically
very tired after Australia
and encountered incompetent umpiring. Lloyd said before the tour that this
was probably his last overseas tour but was persuaded to continue for five
more years. | Other
West Indies tours Previous
tour India 1978-79 Next
tour England 1980 Next
tour to Australia 1981-82 Next
tour to New Zealand 1986-87 | |
| Members of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen: Gordon
Greenidge, Desmond Haynes Middle-order batsmen: Alvin
Kallicharran, Larry Gomes, 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. | C E H
Croft | G | 26 | RF | | J
Garner | B | 26 | RF | | H A
Gomes | T | 26 | LHB | | C G
Greenidge | B | 28 | RHB opener | | D L
Haynes | B | 23 | RHB
opener | | M A
Holding | Ja | 25 | RF | | A I
Kallicharran | G | 30 | LHB | | C L
King | B | 28 | RHB RFM | | C H
Lloyd | G | 35 | LHB captain | | M D
Marshall | B | 21 | RFM | | D A David Murray | B | 29 | reserve WK | | D L Deryck Murray | T | 36 | WK | | D R
Parry | L | 24 | OB | | I V A Richards | L | 27 | RHB | | A M E Roberts | L | 28 | RF | | L G Rowe | Ja | 30 | RHB reserve opener | |
| Regional representation : B
- Barbados
(6) G - Guyana (3) Ja - Jamaica (2) L - Leeward
Islands (3) T - Trinidad & Tobago
(2) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (1
December 1979) : 28
yrs 3 month | |
| Test Appearances made before the tour | Lloyd 65, Kallicharran 51,
Deryck Murray 51, Richards 28, Roberts 27, Rowe 24, Greenidge 19, Holding 13,
Gomes 11, Parry 11, David Murray 9, Croft 7, Garner 7, King 4, Marshall 3,
Haynes 2. | | |
| Tour Officials | W V
Rodriguez | Manager | Dennis
J Waight | Trainer/
physio |
The manager's name was announced on 16 October 1979 | | |
| Selectors | C L Walcott, C Wilkins, S G Camacho and C H Lloyd
(co-opted) chose the team in Barbados
on 23 September 1979 | | |
| Selection | Unavailable: None. World Series Cricket players were again
considered, and eleven of them won a tour place. The selectors commended a 17th player (Bacchus) to
the West Indies Board without success. Tour
Party Announced : 26 September 1979 Not selected : The selectors made a point of
paying recognition to the service given by Roy Fredericks but decided to give
preference to a younger player. Only five of Kallicharran's team to India the year before were retained but on the
other hand, there was only one change (Bacchus for Gomes) between this squad
and that for the 1980 tour of England. | Time between selection
and departure from West Indies 39 days (26 September - 4 November) | |
| Travel BridgetownQ LondonQ Sydney AdelaideQ Auckland | The team flew out of Grantley
Adams Airport, Barbados,
for London on 4 November, and on to Sydney where they
arrived on 6 November. The team left Australia
for their New Zealand
tour on 31 January. They flew from Adelaide
(without the injured Lloyd or Richards), reaching Auckland the next day. | Time spent in Australia (and New Zealand) 87 + 35 days (6 November - 31 January) (NZ 1 February - 6 March) | |
| On-tour selection panel | Lloyd, Deryck Murray,
Kallicharran, Rodriguez and Richards | | |
| Reinforcements | None, although Viv Richards could not go to New Zealand
because of a persistent back strain. | | |
| Fixtures/Results | † Geelong | Geelong
& Districts | Drawn | Adelaide | South Australia | Won 9
w | Devonport
| Tasmania Invitation XI | Won
260 r | § Sydney | Australia (1st ODI) | Lost
5 w | § Sydney | England (2nd ODI) | Lost
2 r | BRISBANE | AUSTRALIA First Test | DRAWN | § Melbourne | Australia (3rd ODI) | Won
80 r | † Yea | Victoria
Country | Drawn | Launceston | Tasmania | Won
inns 61 r | Toowoomba | Queensland Country | Won 4
w | § Sydney | Australia (4th ODI) | Lost
7 r | § Brisbane | England (5th ODI) | Won 9
w | MELBOURNE | AUSTRALIA Second Test | WON 10 w | Perth | Western Australia | Lost
8 w | † Perth | Western Australia | Won 4
w | § Melbourne | England (6th ODI) | No
result | † Canberra | Australian Capital
Territory | Won
121 r | § Adelaide | England (7th ODI) | Won
107 r | § Sydney | Australia (8th ODI) | Lost
9 r | § Melbourne | England (ODI final) | Won 2
r | § Sydney | Australia (ODI final) | Won 8
w | ADELAIDE | AUSTRALIA Third Test | WON 408 r | | | | † Auckland | Auckland XI | Won
59 r | Hamilton | Northern
Districts | Drawn | § Christchurch | New Zealand (ODI) | Lost
1 w | DUNEDIN | NEW ZEALAND First Test | WON 1 w | † New Plymouth | Central
Districts | Won
10 w | Lower Hutt | Wellington | Lost
6 w | CHRISTCHURCH | NEW ZEALAND Second Test | DRAWN | AUCKLAND | NEW ZEALAND Third Test | DRAWM | | | |
| § ODI
Benson & Hedges World Series Cup † not first-class Time spent in Australia
before First Test: 25 days (6 November - 1 December) Time from end of final Test until departure from New Zealand 1
day (5 March - 6 March ) | |
| Test appearances on tour | 6 -
Croft, Garner, Greenidge, Haynes, Holding, Kallicharran, Deryck
Murray, Rowe 5 -
Lloyd, Roberts 4 - King 3 -
Richards 2 - 1 -
Parry 0 - Gomes, Marshall, David Murray. Marshall, given only 20 playing days
out of 68 on the tour, was the only player not to appear in any
international. | | |
| Highlights | • In the Test
series against Australia Viv Richards' scores were 140, 96, 76 and 74. In all matches he scored 1073 runs with an
average of almost 100. • Lloyd (121)
and Kallicharran (106) found their batting form in the third Test at Adelaide • Fast bowlers
Garner (14), Holding (14), Croft (16) and Roberts (11) shared all the
Australian wickets save one, taken by King. • Batting in
perfect conditions in the Christchurch Test, Haynes, Rowe and King all scored
centuries in the 2nd innings. • Joel Garner
returned the best individual Test bowling figures of the tour with 6-56 in
the Auckland
match | | |
| Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Test Matches | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Other first-class matches | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ϯ Minor matches | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | § One-day
internationals | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | All Matches | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
The one-day B & H Cup match against England at Melbourne was abandoned, and is officially
no result. | | |
| Return to West Indies AucklandQ Bridgetown | The team flew out of Auckland
(Mangere Airport) on 6 March 1980. Rodriguez and eight of the players arrived at Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados, on 8 March. They were
Croft, Garner, Gomes, Haynes, Marshall,
David Murray, Deryck Murray and Parry. | Time away from West Indies 125 days
(4 November to 8 March) | |
| Finances | The team's share of prize money amounted to $A 86
000. The tour profit was EC $400 000. | | |
| Accounts
of the tour | "Cricket Contest: the post-Packer
Tests"
Christopher Martin-Jenkins [Macdonald & Jane's, London, 1980] “War or Peace?” by Frank Tyson [Garry Sparke & Associates Melbourne - 1980] | | |
| Postscript | This was the first time in six tours that West Indies had won a
Test series in Australia.
Dennis Waight began the strict training regimes to make West Indies’ fast bowlers sprint, stretch, strain and
bowl and the players responded willingly until their fitness levels were high
enough to achieve Clive Lloyd’s goals. They had more stamina and less
injuries. | | |
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