| Tour of Pakistan
1986-87 Captain: Vivian Richards | |
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| 29th West Indies
Test tour Fourth Test-playing tour of Pakistan by West Indies (October - November 1986) | West
Indies embarked on their six month-long world tour with a charity match in Bombay, flying to Pakistan the next day. It was the fourth Test tour of Pakistan by a
West Indian side and the result - a one-all draw - was the same as in other
series so they still had not yet won here. The
tour became possible after Pakistan
came up with $325 000 guarantees These
Test matches were the first to be played in front of neutral umpires. | Other
West Indies tours Previous
tour Australia 1984-85 Next
tour New Zealand 1986-87 Next Pakistan
tour 1990-91 | |
| Members of the Test tour party (15) Opening batsmen: Gordon
Greenidge, Desmond Haynes Middle-order batsmen Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Larry Gomes, Gus Logie Wicket-keepers Jeffrey Dujon, Thelston Payne Spin bowlers Clyde Butts, Roger Harper Fast Bowlers Winston Benjamin, Tony Gray, Malcolm Marshall,
Patrick Patterson, Courtney Walsh. | W K M Benjamin | L | 21 | RFM | | C G Butts | G | 29 | RHB
OB | | P J L Dujon | Ja | 30 | WK | | H A Gomes | T | 33 | LHB | | A H Gray | T | 23 | RFM | | C G Greenidge | B | 35 | RHB
opener | | R A Harper | G | 23 | OB | | D L Haynes | B | 30 | RHB | | A L Logie | T | 26 | LHB | | M D Marshall | B | 28 | RF
vice-captain | | B P Patterson | Ja | 25 | RF | | T R O Payne | B | 29 | second WK | | I V A Richards | L | 34 | RHB
captain | | R B Richardson | L | 24 | RHB | | C A Walsh | Ja | 23 | RF | |
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Regional representation : B
- Barbados
(4) G
- Guyana
(2) Ja
- Jamaica
(3) L - Leeward
Islands (3) T - Trinidad & Tobago
(3) W - Windward Islands
(0) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (24
October 1986) : 28
yrs 0 months ODI
Member of the squad for the Wills one-day
series | |
| Test Appearances made before the tour | Richards 82, Greenidge
71, Haynes 59, Gomes
54, Marshall 45, Dujon 37,
Richardson 20, Harper 16, Logie 13,
Walsh 7, Patterson 5, Butts 1,
Payne 1, Benjamin 0, Gray 0. | | |
| Tour Officials | Jackie Hendriks | Manager | Dennis Waight | Physiotherapist |
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| Selectors | Jackie Hendriks
(chairman), Clyde
Walcott, Calvin Wilkin Calvin
Wilkin (born on St Kitts in 1925) played for the Leeward
Islands before they and the Windwards gained first-class status in West Indies cricket. | | |
| Selection | Unavailable: Joel Garner (who suffered illness on the
short tour of Pakistan
the previous year) and Michael Holding (who said that he would retire from
Test cricket unless permitted to miss this tour). Tour Party Announced : ? Not selected :
No
notable players were left out. | Time between selection and departure from West
Indies x days (selection to 5 October) | |
| Travel regional airports Q New York Q London Q Karachi | Richards, Richardson and Marshall left St John's, Antigua, for London
on Wednesday 1 October on their way to play for a World XI against Pakistan in two one-day benefit matches in Kuwait before joining the West Indies team in Karachi. However, they failed toarrive in
the Kuwaiti-bound aircraft fromLondon
after being earlier delayed at Rome
airport by visa problems. The rest of the West Indies team assembled
in New York and left for London
on 5 October, flying on to Karachi. The flew in to Bombay on Tuesday 7 October
for a one-day benefit match against India (except for Malcolm Marshall,
Desmond Haynes, Jeff Dujon and Thelston Payne who missed their connecting
flight from Barbados to New York). On 10 October they flew back
to Karachi and on to Quetta. | Time spent in Pakistan 47 days (10 October - 26 November) | |
| On-tour selection panel | Viv Richards, Malcolm Marshall, Jackie Hendriks, Gordon Greenidge | | |
| Reinforcements | | | |
| Fixtures/Results | a | † Bombay | Maharashtra
Chief Minister's XI (charity
match) | Won | b | Quetta | Baluchistan Governor's XI | Won | c | § Peshawar | Pakistan (1st ODI) | Won | d | Rawalpindi | President's
XI | Drawn | e | FAISALABAD | PAKISTAN First Test | LOST 186 r | f | Sahiwal
| Punjab Governor's XI | Drawn | g | § Gujranwala | Pakistan (2nd ODI) | Won | h | LAHORE | PAKISTAN Second Test | WON inns 110 r | i | § Sialkot | Pakistan (3rd ODI) | Won | j | § Multan | Pakistan (4th ODI) | Won | k | § Hyderabad | Pakistan (5th ODI | Lost | l | KARACHI | PAKISTAN Third Test | DRAWN | | | | | m | §
Sharjah | Pakistan(Champions Trophy) | Won | n | §
Sharjah | India (Champions Trophy) | Won | o | §
Sharjah | Sri Lanka (Champions Trophy) | Won |
| † not first-class § one-day international Time spent in Pakistan
before First Test: 14 days (10 October - 24 October) | |
| Test appearances on tour | 3 -
Dujon, Gomes, Gray,
Greenidge, Harper, Haynes,
Marshall, Richards, Richardson,
Walsh. 2 -
Butts 1 -
Patterson 0 -
Benjamin, Logie, Payne. | | |
| Match appearances | | a | | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | | m | n | o | W K M Benjamin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | C G Butts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P J L Dujon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H A Gomes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A H Gray | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | C G Greenidge | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | R A Harper | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | D L Haynes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A L Logie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | M D Marshall | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | B P Patterson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | T R O Payne | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I V A Richards | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | R B Richardson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | C A Walsh | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RESULTS | W | | W | W | D | L | D | W | W | W | W | L | D | | W | W | W |
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| Highlights | • • • | | |
| Tour Summary | excluding Champions Trophy | P | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | Other first-class matches | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | ϯ Minor matches | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | §
One-day internationals | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | All Matches | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | - |
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| Return to West Indies KarachiQ Sharjah Sharjah Q Australia | On 26
November, after completing the Test series, the team flew from Karachi to Sharjah for the Champions Trophy which West Indies won, picking up a $32 000 prize. On 5 December 1986 the selectors
announced their team for the next leg of the tour (to Australia for
a one-day series) as the players were flying out of Sharjah (approx 5 December - see Advocate Peter Roebuck wrote in the SMH 9
February 1987 “Because of this air of tiredness, the cricket this month has
not been inspiring …Probably the West Indies
eliminated on Friday have been the
worst affected by these attitudes. On the road for 10 years already,
this summer they’ve toured Pakistan
and Sharjah, popped home and then been dragged off for these games, missing
Christmas with their families… maybe they just need a rest.” Patterson who returned home
from Pakistan
with a stomach ailment, and Butts were not required for
the Australian one-dayers because Holding and Garner were recalled into the
15-man squad The West Indies would go on to New Zealand for a Test series after the
limited-over games in Australia. On his return to Gatwick
Airport, London, Greenidge
was affronted to be searched for drugs. | Time away from West Indies x
days (5 October to arrive home in WI) | |
| Finances | | | |
| Accounts
of the tour | | | |
| Postscript | | | |