| Tour of India
1994-95 Captain: Courtney Walsh | |
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| Thirty-eighth West Indies
Test tour Eighth Test-playing tour of India by West Indies (October - December 1994) | Because Richie
Richardson was suffering from exhaustion, Courtenay Walsh was made captain
and Brian Lara vice-captain. Desmond Haynes chose to miss the tour by
fulfilling his agreement to play in South Africa, saying he would not
expect he had any right to walk back into the team. The team was also deprived
of Winston Benjamin by his suspension and Ambrose by injury. An
outbreak of pneumonic plague in the state of Gujarat
put the tour in doubt but it merely delayed the West Indians departure by a week.
The early part of the tour was made up of long hours travelling to the venues
for one-day internationals, spread widely across India. The players were exhausted before the Test
series even began. The manager David Holford described the tour as the worst
he had known. Why a
triangular one-day international tournament had to be squeezed into the
middle of the ODI series against India is unclear, but India won both series by an
aggregate of 8 matches to two. Yet the tourists, having been outplayed for most
of the tour, drew the Test series 1-1 with a thumping 243-run win in the final
match at Chandigarh. An
hour's play was lost in the second Test match at Nagpur when the crowd pelted the West
Indian fielders, particularly Chanderpaul who is of Indian descent, with
fruit. Walsh led his team from the
field until order was restored. Before
that, the practice match at Calicut
had been abandoned because of strikes across the southern state of Kerala in
which nine people were reported killed. | Other
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| Members of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen:Sherwin Campbell, Phil Simmons, Stuart Williams. Middle-order batsmen: Jimmy Adams, Keith Arthurton, Shiv Chanderpaul,
Roland Holder, Carl Hooper, Brian Lara. Wicket-keeper:Junior Murray Spin bowler: Rajindra Dhanraj. Fast bowlers: Kenny Benjamin, Barrington Browne, Cameron Cuffy,
Anderson Cummins, Courtney Walsh. | J C Adams | Ja | 26 | LHB
SLA
reserve WK | ODI W | | C E L Ambrose
withdrew | L | | | | | K L T Arthurton | L | 29 | LHB | ODI W | | K C G Benjamin | L | 27 | RF | ODI W | | B S Browne
added | G | 27 | RF | ODI W | | S L Campbell | B | 24 | RHB
opener | ODI W | | S Chanderpaul | G | 20 | LHB LB | ODI W | | C E Cuffy | W | 24 | RF | ODI
W | | A C Cummins | B | 28 | RFM | ODI W | | R Dhanraj | T | 25 | LBG | ODI W | | R I C Holder | B | 26 | RHB | ODI W | | C L Hooper | G | 27 | RHB
OB | ODI W | | B C Lara | T | 25 | LHB
vice-captain | ODI W | | J R Murray | W | 26 | WK | ODI | | P V Simmons | T | 31 | RHB
opener RM | ODI W | | C A Walsh | Ja | 32 | RF
captain | ODI W | | S C Williams | L | 25 | RHB
opener | ODI W | | | | | |
| Representation of teams: B
- Barbados
(4) G
- Guyana
(3) Ja
- Jamaica
(2) L - Leeward
Islands (2) T - Trinidad & Tobago
(3) W - Windward Islands
(2) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (18
November 1994) : 26 yrs 10
months ODI
W Member of squad for Wills World Series
Cup squad Dhanraj and Campbell not in India odi
series | |
| Test Appearances made before the tour | Walsh 65, Hooper 40, Arthurton 20, Simmons 19,
Lara 16, Murray 12, Adams 9,
K Benjamin 7, Chanderpaul
4, Cummins 3, Williams 1,
Cuffy 0, Dhanraj 0, Browne 0,
Campbell 0, Holder 0 | | |
| Tour Officials | David Holford | Manager | Rohan Kanhai | Coach | Dennis Waight | Physiotherapist |
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| Selectors | David Holford (chairman), Andy
Roberts, Roy Fredericks. | | |
| Selection | On 4 August Courtney Walsh was named as captain for the tour. Unavailable: Richie Richardson (suffering from
exhaustion), Desmond Haynes (playing
in South Africa), Ian Bishop (back injury), Winston Benjamin (under suspension until 31
December after an altercation with a Board official during England's Test in Antigua).
Tour Party Announced : 11 August
1994. Not selected : Ottis Gibson. Withdrawal : On
22 September Curtley Ambrose withdrew. He needed an operation to correct the
problem in his damaged shoulder. His
place was taken by Barrington Browne. | Time between selection and departure from West
Indies 60 days (11 August - 10 October) | |
| Travel Port
of SpainQLondon Q Chandigarh | The team
was originally scheduled to arrive in India
on 6 October but departure was delayed for a week by a pneumonic plague
epidemic in Gujarat and then by the two
Cricket Boards being slow to agree to a revised itinerary. The team
assembled at Piarco Airport, Port of Spain,
and flew to London
on Monday 10 October. Lara and
Hooper were fined $1000 for arriving in London
a day late and missing a pre-tour team meeting. The side
reached India on Wednesday
12 October After two more flights the team reached Chandigarh for a practice match. | Time spent in India 64 days (12 October - 15 December) | |
| On-tour selection panel | Courtney Walsh
(captain), Rohan Kanhai (coach), David Holford (manager). | | |
| Reinforcements | Roland Holder sliced his mouth badly while shaving a
few days before departure but continued with the tour. “He could not play
until a month into the tour, limiting him to one first-class match and
virtually putting him out of contention for the three Tests.” | | |
| Fixtures/Results | †
Sector 16, Chandigarh | Chandigarh Administrator's XI | Lost
5 w | § Faridabad | India (Pepsi series) | Won
96 r | § Bombay | India (Pepsi series) | Lost
run rate | § Madras | India (Wills Cup) | Lost
4 w | §
Margao | New Zealand(Wills Cup) | Abandoned | § Kanpur | India(Wills Cup) | Won
46 r | §
Guwahati | New Zealand (Wills Cup) | Won
135 r | § Calcutta | India (Wills Cup) | Lost
72 r | § Visakhapatnam | India (Pepsi series) | Lost
5 r | § Cuttack | India (Pepsi series) | Lost
8 w | §
Jaipur | India (Pepsi series) | Lost
5 r | Bangalore | Indian
Board President's XI | Drawn | BOMBAY | INDIA First Test | LOST 96 r | Kozhikode,
Calicut | Bombay(Ranji Trophy chamions) | Abandoned | NAGPUR | INDIA Second Test | DRAWN | MOHALI | INDIA Third Test | WON 243 r |
| † not first-class § one-day international Time spent in India
before First Test: 37 days (12 October - 18 November) | |
| Test appearances on tour | 3 -
Adams, Arthurton, K Benjamin,
Hooper, Lara, Murray,
Simmons, Walsh, Williams. 2 -
Cummins, Cuffy, 1 -
Chanderpaul, Dhanraj 0 -
Browne, Campbell, Holder. | | |
| Match appearances T Test match o one-day international x other match ⊕ T/20 international W won L lost D drawn N no result A abandoned u unknown
result | | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | Adams | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ambrose | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | K Benjamin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bishop | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Browne | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Campbell | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chanderpaul | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cuffy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Griffith | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Holder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hooper | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lara | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | McLean | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Murray | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Samuels | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simmons | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thompson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Walsh | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Highlights | • • • Jimmy
Adams scored 125 in the second Test match | | |
| Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | Other first-class matches | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ϯ Minor matches | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | § One-day internationals | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | All Matches | 16 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
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| Return to West Indies New
DelhiQ London Q ? | The West Indians flew out of New Delhi on approx 15
December 1994 They returned home to their various
island destinations on Saturday 17 December | Time away from West Indies 68
days (10 October to 17 December) | |
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| Finances | | | |
| Published
accounts of the tour | | | |
| Postscript | The players had barely three weeks at home
before setting off again for New
Zealand. | | |