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| Test Cricket Tours - West Indies to Australia 2000-01
| Tour of Australia 2000-01
Captain: Jimmy Adams | | | | | | | | 46th official tour Eleventh Test tour by West Indies to Australia (November
2000 -
February 2001) | The day before the team departed the Caribbean for their Australian tour the Board announced
it would not take any action over an Indian match-fixing report which said
star batsman Brian Lara received US$40,000 from bookmaker Marlon Gupta to
"under-perform". This was West Indies worst tour, losing five-nil in the Test matches, and losing six-nil against Australia
in the one-day matches. While marginal decisions tended to go Australia's way and not in favour of West Indies, it was nevertheless a dramatic fall from
the standards set by West Indian teams since the only previous time that five
Test matches were lost (5-1 in 1975-76).
Lara was regarded as a failure for recording three Test ducks but he
was nevertheless top-scorer with 321 runs in the series. The
bowling was spearheaded for the last time on tour by Courtney Walsh who ended
with 11 wickets which were bettered only by Dillon on 16. At the end of the tour captain Jimmy Adams and his deputy Sherwin
Campbell were sacked. A lack of discipline in playing and training, which had
always been the strength of the side in the Lloyd/Richards era, had damaged
the side’s ability to come through as a unified group. Adams remained dignified
and calm but proved unable to inspire the team to mental toughness or greater
pride in performance, and the run of disastrous results continued with West Indies’ sixth consecutive away series defeat. | Other
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Australian tour 2005-06 | | | Members of the Test tour party (16 + 1) Opening batsmen: Sherwin Campbell,
Wavell Hinds, Daren Ganga Middle-order batsmen Brian
Lara, Jimmy Adams, Shivnarine
Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels (r). Wicket-keepers: Ridley Jacobs, Courtney Browne. Spin bowler Mahendra
Nagamootoo Fast bowlers: Marlon Black, Kerry Jeremy, Mervyn Dillon, Courtney
Walsh, Nixon McLean, Colin Stuart | J C Adams | Ja | 32 | LHB
(SLA) captain | ODI | | M I Black | T | 25 | RF | ODI | | C O Browne | B | 29 | reserve WK | | | S L Campbell | B | 30 | RHB
opener vice captain | ODI | | S Chanderpaul | G | 26 | LHB | | | M Dillon | T | 26 | RFM | | | D Ganga | T | 21 | RHB
opener | ODI | | W W Hinds | Ja | 24 | LHB opener (RM) | ODI | | R D Jacobs | L | 33 | WK | ODI | | K C B Jeremy | L | 20 | RFM | | | B C Lara | T | 31 | LHB | ODI | | N A M McLean | W | 27 | RF | ODI | | M V Nagamootoo | G | 25 | LBG | ODI | | R R Sarwan | G | 20 | RHB | | | C E L Stuart | G | 27 | RFM | ODI | | C A Walsh | Ja | 38 | RF | | | Joined the tour party for the | C E Cuffy | ODI | one-day
internationals | S C Joseph | ODI | | | | R L Powell | ODI | | | | L R Williams | ODI |
| Representation of teams: B
- Barbados
(2) G - Guyana (4) Ja - Jamaica (3) L - Leeward
Islands (2) T - Trinidad & Tobago
(4) W -
Windward Islands (1) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (23
November 2000) : 27
yrs 7 months | | | Test Appearances made before the tour | Walsh 122, Lara 70,
Adams 50, Campbell 46, Chanderpaul 44, Jacobs 21,
MacLean 12, Hinds 10, Browne 7,
Dillon 7, Sarwan 5, Ganga 4,
Nagamootoo 1, Black 0, Jeremy 0,
Samuels 0, Stuart 0. | | | | Team Officials | Ricky
Skerritt | Manager | Roger
Harper | Coach | Jeffrey
Dujon | Assistant
Coach | Ronald
Rogers | Fitness
trainer | Joe
Hoad | Psychologist |
| | | | Selectors | Mike Findlay (chairman),
Michael
'Joey' Carew and Joel Garner | | | | Selection | Unavailable: Curtley Ambrose (retired), Reon King
(injured). Not considered: Carl Hooper missed the
four-day Busta Cup earlier this year which made him ineligible for the Test tour. Tour Party Announced : approx 17
October 2000. Not selected : Chris Gayle, Franklin Rose. | Time between selection and departure from West
Indies x days (17? October to 2? November) | | | Travel KingstonQ London Q Perth | The team
assembled in Kingston's Pegasus
Hotel, Jamaica,
and flew to London. On the morning of 4 November 2000 they flew
into Perth International Airport. Ricardo
Powell, Sylvester Joseph and Laurie Williams left the Caribbean on 30 December
to join the West Indies team for the
triangular one-day series | Time spent in Australia x days (4 November - depart Host) | | | On-tour selection panel | | | | | Reinforcements | Marlon Samuels, a tour reserve, left Kingston,
Jamaica, on 5
December to replace Shivnarine
Chanderpaul (returned home after suffering a stress fracture in his left
leg). Samuels arrived in Sydney on 8 December and flew straight to Hobart to play in the
tour match. Kerry Jeremy underwent
surgery for a broken jaw after being hit in the Western Australia tour match Cameron Cuffy (W) RFM was added to the ODI squad to replace Merv Dillon (ankle injury) and left
the Caribbean on 1 January Coach Roger Harper had to
field as substitute at Canberra
when Nagamootoo, Sarwan, Dillon and McLean were all unfit or unwell. | | | | Fixtures/Results | † Lilac Hill, Perth | ACB
Chairman's XI | No
result | WACA,
Perth | Western Australia | Lost
7 w | † Alice Springs | Northern Territory Invitation XI | Won
57 r | Melbourne | Victoria | Lost
inns 63 r | BRISBANE | AUSTRALIA First Test | LOST inns 126 r | PERTH | AUSTRALIA Second Test | LOST inns 27 r | † Canberra | Prime
Minister's XI (50
overs) | Lost
4 w | Hobart | Australia A | Drawn | ADELAIDE | AUSTRALIA Third Test | LOST 5 w | MELBOURNE | AUSTRALIA Fourth Test | LOST 352 r | SYDNEY | AUSTRALIA Fifth Test | LOST 6 w | † Adelaide | Australia A | Won 4
w | § Melbourne | Australia (1st ODI) | Lost
74 r | § Brisbane | Zimbabwe (2nd ODI) | Won 1
w | § Brisbane | Australia (3rd ODI) | Lost
9 w | § Sydney | Australia (4th ODI) | Lost
28 r | § Sydney | Zimbabwe (5th ODI) | Lost
47 r | § Adelaide | Zimbabwe (6th ODI) | Won
77 r | § Adelaide | Australia (7th ODI) | Lost
10 w | § Perth | Zimbabwe (8th ODI) | Won
44 r | § Sydney | Australia (1st ODI final) | Lost
134 r | § Melbourne | Australia (2nd ODI final) | Lost
39 r |
| † not first-class § one-day international ⊕ Twenty20 international Time spent in Australia
before First Test: 19 days (4 November - 23 November) | | | Test appearances on tour | 5 -
Adams, Campbell, Jacobs, Lara, Maclean, Walsh. 4 -
Dillon, Ganga,
Hinds 3 - Black,
Samuels, Sarwan 2 - Stuart 1 - Chanderpaul, Nagamootoo. 0 - Browne, Jeremy. | | | | Highlights | • Brian Lara, in
his highest innings of the series (182), shared
in a 183-run partnership with captain Jimmy Adams to rescue West
Indies from a poor start on the first day of the third Test • Ridley
Jacobs had a world record equalling performance of seven catches in an
innings in the third Test • Jacobs, with his 288-run aggregate, was outscored only by Brian
Lara (321) in the five Test series. • Marlon
Samuels, aged only 19, impressed with calm innings of 60 not out and 46 at Adelaide • Campbell and Hinds’ opening partnership of 147 at Sydney beat the
Greenidge /Haynes record of 135 | | | | Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Test Matches | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | Other first-class matches | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ϯ Minor matches | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | § One-day internationals | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | All Matches | 22 | 5 | 15 | 2 |
| | | | Return to West Indies MelbourneQ London Q Bridgetown | Shivnarine
Chanderpaul, injured, returned home early on 21 December. Dillon was also injured
and returned home early. Ramnaresh
Sarwan, Courtney Browne, Kerry Jeremy and Courtney Walsh returned to the Caribbean at the end of the fifth Test on 7 January. At the end of the tour, fast bowler Marlon Black was
violently attacked by four men outside a nightclub in Melbourne the night before the team left,
suffering a head wound and aggravating a shoulder injury in the incident. At
the Victorian County Court the following October they pleaded guilty to
intentionally causing serious injury in the assault that took place outside
Colonial Stadium. The West Indies one-day team flew home from Melbourne to the Caribbean
on the afternoon of Monday 12 February 2001.
Transiting through London where Adams remained, the bulk of the team
arrived at Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados, next day while four of the five
Jamaicans - Samuels, Williams, Hinds and Powell - flew into Norman Manley
Airport, Kingston, also on Tuesday 13 February. | Time away from West Indies x
days (2? November to 13 February) | | | | | | | | | | | |
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