Tour of Zimbabwe & South Africa 2003-04       Captain: Brian Lara
	52nd official Test tour   Second Test-playing tour by West Indies to South Africa & Zimbabwe       (December 2003   -          February 2004)	Sir Viv Richards, who had given his name to the trophy for the South African Test series, accompanied the team there as chief selector.  He urged the West Indies Board to go to the expense of flying in players specifically for one-day series and nurturing others as Test players only. Lara came determined to put right the humiliation of losing 5-0 on his previous visit to South Africa in 1998-99.  However, after narrowly beating Zimbabwe, West Indies could avoid defeat in only one of the four Test matches arranged against South Africa.  Lack of fitness, poor fielding skills and undisciplined bowling negated the tourists’ much-improved batting performance - there were eight centuries scored by the West Indians including two by Lara himself and one by 20 year-old debutant Dwayne Smith. West Indies won the one-day series in Zimbabwe 3-2 but were beaten in South Africa.	Other West Indies tours   Previous tour India 2002-03   Next tour England 2004     Next South African tour 2007-08
	Members of the Test tour party (16  + 3)     Opening batsmen:  Chris Gayle,  Wavell Hinds Middle-order batsmen  Brian Lara, Shiv Chanderpaul, Daren Ganga, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne R Smith (r) Wicket-keepers  Ridley Jacobs, Carlton Baugh Spin bowlers  Omari Banks, Dave Mohammad (r) Fast bowlers  Mervyn Dillon, Corey Collymore, Vasbert Drakes, Fidel Edwards, Ravi Rampaul, Jerome Taylor, Adam Sanford (r)	O A C Banks L 21 OB     C S Baugh J 21 WK ODI (Z)   S Chanderpaul G 29 LHB ODI (Z)   (SA)   C D Collymore B 26 RFM ODI (Z)   (SA)   M Dillon T 29 RFM ODI (Z)   (SA)   V C Drakes B 34 RF ODI (Z)   (SA)   F H Edwards B 21 RF ODI (Z)   (SA)   D Ganga T 24 RHB  opener     C H Gayle J 24 LHB  opener   OB ODI (Z)   (SA)   W W Hinds J 27 LHB  opener    RM ODI (Z)   R D Jacobs L 36 LHB   WK ODI (Z)   (SA)   B C Lara T 34 LHB    captain ODI (Z)   (SA)   R Rampaul T 19 RFM ODI (Z)   (SA)   M N Samuels J 22 RHB   (OB) ODI (Z)   R R Sarwan G 23 RHB   (LB)   vice-captain ODI (Z)   (SA)   J E Taylor J 19 RF ODI (Z)   Selected only for one-day squads R L Powell(J) ODI (Z)   (SA)   I D R Bradshaw (B) ODI        (SA)   R O Hurley  (B) ODI        (SA)   D R Smith (B) ODI        (SA)       K J Wilkinson (B) ODI        (SA)	Representation of teams:      B - Barbados (3) G  - Guyana (2) J  - Jamaica (5) L - Leeward Islands (2) T - Trinidad & Tobago (4) W  - Windward Islands (0)           Average age of  team at time of first Test match (4 November 2003) : 25 yrs  7months         ODI  Member of squad in the one-day series against Zimbabwe (Z) and South Africa (SA)
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Lara 96,  Chanderpaul 66,  Jacobs 51,  Dillon 34,  Sarwan 34,  Hinds 33,  Gayle 32,  Ganga 22,  Samuels 19,  Drakes 7, Sanford 7,  Banks 4,  Collymore 3,  Baugh 2,  Taylor 2,  Edwards 1,  Mohammad 0,  Rampaul 0,  DR Smith 0.
	Team Officials	Ricky Skerritt Manager Gus Logie Coach Kenneth Benjamin Assistant coach Sunet Liebenberg Physiotherapist Garfield Smith Analyst
	Selectors	Sir Vivian Richards (Chairman of selectors),  Michael 'Joey' Carew,  Gordon Greenidge. Unlike his predecessor, Harper, interim coach Logie was by his own choice not a member of the West Indies selection committee.
	Selection	Unavailable: Jermaine Lawson  (required to adjust his bowling action) Tour Party Announced :  18 October 2003. Not selected :      ODI series v Zimbabwe : Ricardo Powell was called up.  Jerome Taylor was named in the squad but was unable to play.  Omari Banks, Daren Ganga were not required ODI series v South Africa:  announced 11 January -  Ryan Hurley (B), 28, OB; Ian Bradshaw (B), 29, LFM; Kurt Wilkinson (B), 22  RHB, and Dwayne R Smith (B), RHB, 20,  were called up.
	Travel	A five-day training camp was held in Antigua before the tour The West indian arrived in Harare on the afternoon of 27 October 2003. The team arrived in Johannesburg on Monday 1 December for the South African leg of the tour.
	On-tour selection panel	Vivian Richards (Chair of Selectors on tour),  Brian Lara (captain),  Gus Logie (coach)
	Reinforcements	Left-arm wrist spinner Dave Mohammad (Trinidad & Tobago) was named as a replacement for Jerome Taylor (back injury) who flew home early at the end of the Zimbabwe tour.  Dinanath Ramnarine would have been considered had he not recently retired in frustration at not being chosen for West Indies. Dwayne Smith(Barbados) was brought in as replacement for Marlon Samuels who returned home for an operation on his injured knee. Adam Sanford (Leewards) was called into the West Indies squad as a replacement for Omari Banks who was advised to rest his inflamed back injury for 3 months.
	Fixtures/Results	Harare1 Zimbabwe A  (3-day) Drawn HARARE ZIMBABWE  First Test DRAWN BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE  Second Test WON 128 r † Kwekwe Zimbabwe A   (50 overs) Won 7 w § Bulawayo Zimbabwe  (1st ODI) Won 51 r § Bulawayo Zimbabwe  (2nd ODI) Lost 6 w § Harare Zimbabwe  (3rd ODI) Lost 21 r § Harare Zimbabwe  (4th ODI) Won 72 r § Harare Zimbabwe  (5th ODI) Won 8 w       † Randjesfontein N F Oppenheimer’s XI  (50 overs) Won 12 r Bloemfontein Free State Drawn JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA  First Test LOST 189 r East London Border Drawn DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA  Second Test LOST inns 65 r CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA   Third Test DRAWN Benoni Easterns Won 33 r CENTURION SOUTH AFRICA  Fourth Test LOST 10 w † Paarl South Africa A Won 65 r § Cape Town South Africa  (1st ODI) Lost 209 r § Port Elizabeth South Africa  (2nd ODI) Lost 16 r § Durban South Africa  (3rd ODI) No result § Centurion South Africa  (4th ODI) Won 7 w § Johannesburg South Africa  (5th ODI) Lost 4 w	§ ODI:  † not first-class .   1  Takashinga Sports Club, Highfield. All other matches at Harare Sports Club
	Test appearances on tour	6  -   Edwards,  Ganga,  Jacobs,  Lara,  Sarwan 5  -   Chanderpaul,  Drakes,  Gayle,  Hinds,  4  -   Collymore,  Dillon,  2  -   Sanford,  D R Smith 1  -   Banks,  Baugh,  Mohammad,  Taylor 0  -   Rampaul,  Samuels.
	Highlights	•    Brian Lara scored 191 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, including 114 before lunch on the second day •    Chris Gayle hit 112 not out to bring victory in the final ODI against Zimbabwe and win the series •    Brian Lara scored 202 in the first Test against South Africa at Johannesburg •    Ramnaresh Sarwan and Chris Gayle also had two hundreds each in the Test series •    20-year-old Dwayne Smith struck 105 on debut at Cape Town. •    Chris Gayle scored 152 not out in the final ODI v South Africa and an opening partnership of 193 with Chanderpaul - but West Indies still lost the match.
	Tour Summary	P W  L D Aban Test Matches   6 1   3 2 - Other first-class matches   4 1   3 0 - † Minor matches   3 3   0 0 - §One-day internationals 10 4   5 1 - All Matches 23 9 14 3 -
	Return to West Indies	Jerome Taylor who strained his back in the first Test against Zimbabwe was not able to recover and arrived home in Jamaica on 3 December when the team went on to South Africa Omari Banks and Marlon Samuels also returned home early for medical treatment Wavell Hinds returned home early on Sunday 11 January The team returned to the Caribbean on Sunday 9 February.

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