Tour of Australia 1984-85             Captain: Clive Lloyd

28th official Test tour

Eighth Test-playing tour by West Indies to Australia

    (October 1984 -

                March 1985)

This was the eighth official West indies Test tour of Australia. It was in fact the fourth visit to Australia in six years but the first full tour since taking a 5-1 defeat in 1975-76.

In order to take on the role of manager, Wesley Hall had to resign his job of ten years with Banks Brewery, who refused him five months unpaid leave after granting a similar period for the 1983-84 tour of India.  Hall was awarded The Order of Australia for services to cricket. During the tour he suffered a nexk injury and on 28 November had to be taken to hospital for treatment.  The physio/trainer Dennis Waight also needed hospital treatment during the tour for chest pains.

Desmond Haynes was reprimanded for giving a V-sign to Geoff Lawson who had just bowled him out in the second Test match.

Clive Lloyd, 40, on his farewell tour, concluded his captaincy reign with a defeat at Sydney  but not before the West Indies had completed eleven consecutive Test match victories, which had never been achieved before.

Other West Indies tours

Previous tour

England 1984

Next tour .

Pakistan 1986-87

Next Australian tour

1988-89

Members of the Test tour party

(17)

Opening batsmen: Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes.

Middle-order batsmen: Larry Gomes, Clive Lloyd, Gus Logie, Viv Richards, Richie Richardson.

Wicket-keepers: Jeffrey Dujon, Thelston Payne.

Spin bowler:  Roger Harper

Fast bowlers: Eldine Baptiste, Winston Davis, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Courtney Walsh

Representation of teams:

B - Barbados

G  - Guyana

J  - Jamaica

L - Leeward Islands

T - Trinidad & Tobago

W  - Windward Islands

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(17  1984) : yrs  11 months

ODI  Member of the one-day series squad

Regional representation

Test Appearances made before the tour

Lloyd 105,  Richards 68,  Greenidge 57,  Holding 49,  Haynes 45,  Garner 42,  Gomes 40,  Marshall 31,  Dujon 24,  Harper 11,  Baptiste 9,  Davis 9,  Logie 9,  Richardson 6,  Payne 0,  Walsh 0.

Team Officials

Selectors

CL Walcott (chairman),

Selection

Unavailable:  MA Small (Barbados)  knee injury, so Davis came in for him.

Tour Party Announced in Barbados:  9 September 1984.

Not selected :

Only Greenidge, Payne and Walsh were not in Australia the previous season for the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup 1983-84.

Travel

On the morning of 10 October the team left Bridgetown.

They touched down in Sydney on 15 October where Lloyd gave a press conference and flew to Brisbane next day.

On-tour selection panel

Lloyd,  Richards,  Greenidge,  Holding,  Hall

Reinforcements

None

Fixtures/Results