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Test Cricket Tours - India to England 1982

 

 

Tour of England 1982             Captain: Sunil Gavaskar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twentieth Test tour

 

 

Tenth Test-playing tour of  England by India

 

 

 

     (April - July 1982)

 

 

India came as favourites for the Test series after beating England one-nil in India in the 1981-82 series. England were also now without fifteen of their potential Test players after the TCCB's decision to ban them from Test cricket for three years because they participated in a South African Breweries-sponsored tour of that country.  The 1982 tour could not have taken place had the English counties not agreed to omit these players from the side matches.

The Indian management objected to David Constant umpiring their matches and the TCCB had to withdraw him from their panel of Test umpires. India had lost confidence in him after a match against Yorkshire and a Prudential one-day international but the TCCB said its decision implied no criticism of his work.  Constant was given the fee he would have received at Lord’s. The previous winter England had objected to some Indian umpires.

It was the summer of the all-rounder: Kapil Dev, Ian Botham and Imran Khan of Pakistan later in the season were arguably their countries’ greatest all-rounders.

The season saw the successful introduction of the minimum 96 overs per day in Test matches, which countered the laboured over rates of recent years.

 

 

Other Indian tours

 

 

Previous tour

Australia & New Zealand

                         1980-81

 

Next tour

Pakistan 1982-83

 

 

Next England tour

1986

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour  party  (16)

 

 

Opening batsmen: : Ghulam Parkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Pranab Roy.

Middle-order batsmen: Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Malhotra, Gundappa Viswanath, Sandeep Patil, Yashpal Sharma

Wicket-keeper: Syed Kirmani

Spinners: Dilip Doshi, Ravi Shastri, Shivlal Yadav

Fast bowlers: Kapil Dev, Suru Nayak, Madan Lal, Randhir Singh

 

 

 

 

 

 

D R Doshi

Bn

34

SLA

 

S M Gavaskar

B

32

RHB  opener    captain

 

Kapil Dev

Hy

23

RHB   RFM

 

S M H Kirmani

K

32

WK

 

S Madan Lal

D

31

RFM

 

A O Malhotra

Hy

25

RHB

 

S V Nayak

B

27

RM

 

G A Parkar

B

26

RHB  opener

 

S M Patil

B

25

RHB

 

Randhir Singh

Bh

24

RFM

 

Pranab Roy

Bn

25

RHB  opener

 

R J Shastri

B

20

SLA

 

D B Vengsarkar

B

26

RHB

 

G R Viswanath

K

33

RHB   vice-captain

 

N S Yadav

Hd

25

OB

 

M Yashpal Sharma

Pj

27

RHB   reserve WK

 

 

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Representation of teams:  

  

Bn -  Bengal (2)

Bh  -  Bihar  (1)

B  -  Bombay (6)

D  -  Delhi (1)

Hy -  Haryana (2)

Hd  - Hyderabad (1)

K  -  Karnataka (2)

Pj -  Punjab (1)

 

 

  

 

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match  (10 June 1982):

   27 yrs  8 months

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

 

Viswanath 81,  Gavaskar 75,  Kirmani 54,  Vengsarkar 48,  Kapil Dev 38,  Doshi 24,  Madan Lal 22,  Yashpal Sharma 22,  Yadav 15,  Patil 13,  Shastri 9,  Malhotra 2,  Roy 2,  Nayak 0,  Parkar 0, Randhir 0.

 

 

 

 

Team Officials

 

Raj Singh Durgarpur

Tour Manager

K Nagaraj

Assistant manager

 

 

 The only other contender for the post of assistant manager was the former Saurashtra player, Niranjan Shah

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Polly Umrigar (chairman),  Vijay Mehra,  Chandu Sarwate,  Dattu Phadkar,  Ghulam Ahmed. 

Sunil Gavaskar did not join the panel because he was playing in a benefit match in Sharjah.

 

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

On 31 January 1982 during the final Test against England, Sunil Gavaskar was unanimously appointed captain for the tour.

Unavailable: None.

Tour Party Announced : 1 April 1982

Not selected  :  J Arun Lal,  Mohinder Amarnath.

The sectors named four stand-bys apart from Arun Lal and Amarnath: Gopal Sharma, Zulfiqar Parkar, Rakesh Shukla and Balwinder Singh Sandhu.

 

 

Time between selection and departure from India

  x days

 (1 April - April 1982)

 

 

 

Travel

 

After a physical conditioning camp in Bangalore between 13 and 23 April, the team assembled in Bombay.  They flew from Santa Cruz Airport to Heathrow Airport, and were taken by coach to their London hotel

 

Time spent in England

   x days

(April - 16 July)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection committee

 

Sunil Gavaskar (captain),  Gundappa Viswanath (vice-captain),  Raj Singh (manager)

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

None. There was no reserve wicket-keeper and, had Kirmani been unfit, Z.Parkar would have flown in.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

 

 

 

† not first-class

§ one-day international

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Time spent in England before First Test:

 x days

(April - 10 June)

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

3 -  Doshi,  Gavaskar,  Kapil Dev,  Kirmani,  Madan Lal,  Shastri,  Vengsarkar,  Viswanath,  Yashpal.

2 -  Nayak,  Patil

1 -  Malhotra,  Parkar

0 -  Randhir,  Roy,  Yadav.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

    India lost the first Test at Lord's by 7 wickets despite Vengsarkar (157) and Kapil Dev (89) batting brilliantly in the second innings.

    The second Test at Old Trafford, where Sandeep Patil smashed a scintillating century, ended in a draw

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

 P

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

  3

0

1

 2

-

Other first-class matches

  9

1

0

 8

-

Minor matches

  4

1

1

 2

-

§ One-day internationals

  2

0

2

 0

-

All Matches

18

2

4

12

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to India

 

After the tour Kapil Dev immediately joined Northamptonshire, and Doshi went to league cricket. 

Only Vengsarkar and Shivlal Yadav returned home to Bombay on 16 July.  At the last minute Randhir decided to remain in London for his ear operation, and Raj Singh stayed to visit friends.

The remainder went on a private tour of the United States, and returned to Bombay on 6 September 1982??

Raj Singh Dungarpur returned to Bombay on 7 September after a long holiday in England.

 

 

 

Time away from India

  x days   (April to 6 September)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

 

 

Published accounts of the tour

 

"Summer of the All-Rounder" (photographic record of the Tests) Patrick Eager and Alan Ross.

 

 

 



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