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| Test Cricket Tours - West Indies to India 2002-03
| Tour of India 2002-03 Captain:
Carl Hooper | | | | | | | | Fifty-first official Test tour (first part of the tour
to India & Bangladesh
2002-03) Ninth Test-playing tour of India by West Indies. (September - November
2002) | After being eliminated
from the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka,
the West Indies team remained there to prepare for the first leg of a Test tour
of India & Bangladesh.
Manager Ricky Skerritt was the victim of scurrilous, untrue stories in the
Sri Lankan press which he claimed were deliberately planted to sully the good
name of himself and the West Indies team. West Indies were hammered
in the first two Test matches against India,
but rejuvenated in the Third Test at Kolkata when they picked four pace bowlers
and dismissed India
relatively cheaply before building up a strong lead. But the pitch proved too
easy for the Indian batsmen who ensured the draw. The tour management registered
a strong protest at the decision by ICC match referee Mike Procter to award India victory in the third one-day
International in Rajkot
when crowd trouble brought the game to an end. It was abandoned after West
Indian fielders were hit by plastic water bottles. West
Indies won the ODI series by taking the decisive
seventh match through brilliant play from the young stars recalled to the
team, Marlon Samuels and Jermaine Lawson. The tour management wanted
to send Marlon Samuels home for breaking a night-time curfew and going out to
a night club.Samuels was hauled before
the the tour disciplinary committee - selector Viv Richards, captain Carl Hooper
and coach Roger Harper - and Merv Dillon was also told to pack his bags for
breaking curfew on several occasions but Rev Wesley Hall, President of the
West Indies Board, intervened and prevented it because their expulsion would not
be within legal disciplinary procedures. | Other
West Indies tours Previous
tour To Sharjah to play Pakistan 2001-02 Next
tour Bangladesh 2002-03 (officially part of
same tour) Next
tour of India 2011-12 | | | Members of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen: Chris
Gayle, Wavell Hinds Middle-order batsmen Shiv
Chanderpaul, Carl Hooper, Daren Ganga, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels Wicket-keepers Ridley
Jacobs, Spin bowlers Gareth
Breese, Mahendra Nagamootoo,Ryan Hinds Fast bowlers Pedro Collins, Cameron Cuffy, Mervyn Dillon, Jermaine Lawson,
Daren Powell. | G R Breese | Ja | 26 | OB | | | S Chanderpaul | G | 28 | LHB | ODI (CT) (I) | | P T Collins | B | 26 | LFM | ODI (CT) (I) | | C E Cuffy | W | 32 | RFM | ODI (I) | | M Dillon | T | 28 | RFM | ODI (CT) (I) | | D Ganga added | T | 23 | RHB
opener | | | C H Gayle | Ja | 23 | LHB
opener | ODI (CT) (I) | | R O Hinds | B | 21 | LHB | ODI (CT) (I) | | W W Hinds | Ja | 26 | LHB
opener | ODI (CT) (I) | | C L Hooper | G | 35 | RHB
OB captain | ODI (CT) (I) | | R D Jacobs | L | 34 | WK
vice-captain | ODI (CT) (I) | | B C Lara
w/d | | | | ODI (CT) | | J J C Lawson | Ja | 20 | RF | | | M V Nagamootoo | G | 26 | LHB
LBG | ODI (CT) (I) | | D B Powell | Ja | 24 | RFM | | | M N Samuels | Ja | 21 | RHB | ODI (I) | | R R Sarwan | G | 22 | RHB | ODI (CT) (I) | | Required for one-day series only | C D Collymore | ODI (CT) (I) | | V C Drakes | ODI (CT) (I) | | R Morton | ODI (CT) | | | | R L Powell | ODI (I) | | | | |
| Regional representation: B
- Barbados
(2) G - Guyana (4) Ja - Jamaica (6) L - Leeward
Islands (1) T - Trinidad & Tobago
(2) W -
Windward Islands (0) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (9
October 2002) : 26
yrs 2 months ODI
(CT) Champions Trophy | | | Test Appearances made before the tour | Hooper 99, Chanderpaul 58, Jacobs 42, Dillon 27, W W Hinds 24, Sarwan 24, Gayle 23, Ganga 15, Collins 13, Cuffy 13, Samuels 12, Nagamootoo 4, R O Hinds 2, Powell 1, Breese 0, Lawson 0. | | | | Team Officials | Ricky
O Skerritt | Manager | Roger
A Harper | Coach | Ronald
Rogers | Fitness
trainer | Garfield S Smith | Scorer
- analyst | Viv
Richards | On-tour
selector | Dr
Akshai Mansingh | Medical Advisor |
| | | | Selectors | Viv Richards (chairman), Michael 'Joey' Carew, Gordon Greenidge. | | | | Selection | Champions Trophy ODI team
announced: 12 August 2002 Carl Hooper (captain), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Pedro Collins,
Corey Collymore, Cameron Cuffy, Mervyn Dillon, Chris Gayle, Ryan Hinds,
Wavell Hinds, Ridley Jacobs, Brian Lara, Runako Morton, Mahendra Nagamootoo,
Ramnaresh Sarwan. Withdrawn: Cameron Cuffy. Cuffy's flight was already booked but Vasbert Drakes was selected
to replace him after concerns developed about his fitness because the
31-year-old Cuffy underwent knee surgery in July, but had not yet had a
rehabilitation programme . Unfortunately, the change of player was not
conveyed to Cuffy. In prior years, selection
to West Indies touring teams depended on
players being available for all matches in the regional first-class and
limited-overs competitions, but the WICB voted to relax the rule, which
required players to be available only for the matches preceding selection. Tour Party Announced : 9 September
2002. Jermaine Lawson and Marlon
Samuels were recalled after injuries. Not selected : Runako
Morton (he later asked to return home early from the I C C Champions Trophy
in Sri Lanka
to attend his grandmother's funeral, which was soon discovered to be untrue). Withdrawal : Brian Lara withdrew through illness on 18
September (being hospitalised with suspected hepatitis during the Champions Trophy). Lara was replaced by Daren Ganga on 23
September. ODI squad (v India)
announced: 25
October 2002. On
1 November the selectors trimmed the squad to fifteen for the ODIs (as in the
World Cup). Opening batsman Ganga, who did not play in any of the three Tests,
would therefore get the axe and return home along with Gareth Breese, Daren
Powell, and Jermaine Lawson. | Time between selection and departure from West
Indies x
days (9 September to depart for WI) | | | Travel Barbados Q London Q Colombo ColomboQ Bangalore | The West Indies’ Champions Trophy team left Barbados for Sri Lanka on Tuesday 3 September
2002. Pedro Collins left from Jamaica
where he remained to film a commercial. The team was in Colombo from 1
October after their Champions Trophy elimination, to complete a training camp
ahead of their trip to India.
Vasbert Drakes and Corey Collymore, not wanted for the Test segment of the
Indian tour, returned home on 24 September, only to return a month later with
Ricardo Powell for the one-day series. Marlon Samuels, Gareth Breese, and three fast bowlers, Cameron
Cuffy, Daren Powell and Jermaine Lawson, who were not part of the ODI squad, joined
the Test players in Sri
Lanka. The Test team travelled from Colombo
to India on Tuesday 3
October 2002, landing at Bangalore
next morning. Ricardo
Powell, 23, along with all-rounder Vasbert Drakes and fast bowler Corey
Collymore, arrived in India for the one-day series on ……… | Time spent in India 54 days (3 October - 26 November) | | | On-tour selection panel | Vivian Richards (selector on tour), Roger
Harper (coach), Ricky Skerritt (manager), Carl Hooper captain) | | | | Reinforcements | Jermaine Lawson was recalled to the ODI
squad after injuries to Cuffy and Ryan Hinds. He joined the squad on 22
November. | | | | Fixtures/Results | † Colombo Police Park | Pakistanis
(practice match) | Drawn | Bangalore | Indian
Board President's XI | Drawn | MUMBAI | INDIA First Test | LOST inns 112 r | CHENNAI | INDIA Second Test | LOST 8 w | Pune | Railways
(Ranji Trophy holders) | Drawn | KOLKATA | INDIA Third Test | DRAWN | § Jamshedpur | India (1st ODI) | Won 4
w | § Nagpur | India (2nd ODI) | Won 7
w | § Rajkot | India (3rd ODI) | Lost
81 r | § Ahmedabad | India (4th ODI) | Lost
5 w | § Vadodara | India (5th ODI) | Won 5
w | § Jodhpur | India (6th ODI) | Lost
3 w | § Vijayawada | India (7th ODI) | Won
135 r |
| † not first-class § one-day international Time spent in India
before First Test: 6 days (3 October - 9 October) | | | Test appearances on tour | 3 -
Chanderpaul, Dillon, Gayle, WW Hinds, Hooper, Jacobs, Sarwan 2 -
Collins, Cuffy, RO Hinds, Lawson. 1 - Breese, Nagamootoo, D Powell, Samuels 0
- Ganga. | | | | Highlights | • In Mumbai
Carl Hooper played his hundredth Test • Jermaine
Lawson (20 years, 277 days) became the third youngest West Indian after
Marshall and Harper to make his Test debut in India • Chris Gayle
(88) and Ryan Hinds (100) put on an opening partnership of 172 in the third
Test at Kolkata. • Chanderpaul
(140) and Samuels (104) followed up with a stand of 195, as West
Indies built a total of 497. | | | | Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | Other first-class matches | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | † Minor matches | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | § One-day internationals | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | - | All Matches | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | - |
| | | | Return to West Indies Kolkata Q Dhaka | Vasbert Drakes and Corey Collymore, not required for the Test
segment of the Indian tour, returned home from Sri Lanka on 24 September. They
returned to India
on …. for the one-day series against India
and Bangladesh.
Runako Morton
arrived back in the Caribbean on Thursday 26
September after being given leave from the tour because of his "bereavement". Brian
Lara returned to Piarco International Airport,
Trinidad, on Friday night 27 September after
flying for almost a day, to begin six weeks of rest after doctors confirmed
he has contracted hepatitis. Gareth
Breese, Daren Powell and Jermaine Lawson returned home after the Indian Test
series
but Lawson was recalled to play in the limited-overs matches. Vivian Richards flew to Canada to take part in an event celebrating
the 21st anniversary of the independence of Antigua. At the end of the tour skipper
Carl Hooper went to Australia for a knee operation, and Merv
Dillon and Ryan Hinds, also carrying injuries, went back to the Caribbean
after the one-day series against India. The remainder of the team moved on to their tour of Bangladesh, landing at Kolkata late on Monday
25 November, and leaving the next morning for Dhaka. | Time away from West Indies x
days (depart W Ind to arrive home
in WI) | | | | | | |
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