Tour of Pakistan 1984-85              Captain: Sunil Gavaskar
	23rd official Test tour     Fourth Test-playing tour of  Pakistan by India    (October 1984)	The Indians made frequent protests about poor Pakistani umpiring standards, especially during the Lahore Test match. Gavaskar said it was pre-planned. At the end of the tour he suggested that neutral umpires always be appointed for India-Pakistan Test matches in the future. Someone pretending to be selector Hanumant Singh telephoned Kris Srikkanth, asking him to join the tour party as a reinforcement and he flew to Bombay before learning that it was a hoax. Upon Indira Gandhi's assassination the Indian team immediately returned home and called off their remaining matches, including the Karachi Test match. After years of exchanging annual visits, the Indian and Pakistan cricket boards decided that it was futile to play each other so frequently and that the next tour would not take place for two years. TOUR ABANDONED	Other Indian tours     Previous tour West Indies 1982-83   Next Test tour Sri Lanka 1985   Next tour of Pakistan 1989-90
	Members of the Test tour  party (16)     Openers:Sunil Gavaskar, Ghulam Parkar, Anshuman Gaekwad Batsmen: Mohinder Amarnath,  Sandeep Patil, Dilip Vengsarkar Wicket-keeper:Syed Kirmani, Surinder Khanna Spin bowlers Maninder Singh, Shivlal Yadav, Ravi Shastri Fast bowlers:  Kapil Dev, Balwinder Singh Sandhu, Roger Binny, Madan Lal, Chetan Sharma.	M B Amarnath D 34 deputy captain  RHB    RM   R M H Binny K 29 RHB  RM   A D Gaekwad Ba 32 RHB  opener   S M Gavaskar B 35 captain  RHB opener   Kapil Dev Hy 25 vice-captain   RHB  RFM   S C Khanna D 28 reserve WK   S M H Kirmani K 34 WK   S Madan Lal D 33 RFM   Maninder Singh D 19 SLA   G A Parkar B 30 RHB opener   S M Patil B 28 RHB   B S Sandhu B 28 RFM   C Sharma Hy 18 RFM   R J Shastri B 22 SLA   D B Vengsarkar B 28 RHB   N S Yadav Hd 27 OB	Representation of teams:      Ba  -  Baroda (1) B  -  Bombay (6) D  -  Delhi  (4) Hy  - Haryana (2) Hd  - Hyderabad (1) K  - Karnataka (2)           Average age of  team at time of first Test match (17 October 1984) :     28  yrs 6 months.
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Gavaskar 99,  Kirmani 78,  Vengsarkar 69,  Kapil Dev 62,  Amarnath 42,  Madan Lal 37,  Gaekwad 32, Shastri 27,  Patil 25,  Yadav 18,  Binny 17,  Maninder 12,  Sandhu 8,  Parkar 1,  Khanna 0,  Sharma 0.
	Team Officials	Raj Singh Dungarpur Tour Manager Mr B B Das Assistant Manager Dr A Samsi Doctor  ? Physiotherapist
	Selectors	The selectors met in New Delhi: C G Borde (chairman),  Kripal Singh,  B S Bedi,  Ambar Roy,  Hanumant Singh.
	Selection	Sunil Gavaskar was named as captain on 13 September. Unavailable:  Tour Party Announced : 18 September 1984. Mohinder Amarnath was brought back into the team Not selected :  Kirti Azad,  Ashok Patel,  Manoj Prabhakar.	Time between selection and departure from India   22 days  (18 September - 10 October)
	Travel	On 10 October 1984 the tour party flew from Bombay to Karachi, travelling to Quetta in Baluchistan the next day.	Time spent in Pakistan    22 days (10 October - 1 November)
	On-tour selection committee	Sunil Gavaskar (captain),  Mohinder Amarnath,  Raj Singh (manager).
	Reinforcements	K Srikkanth was phoned to fly to Bombay to join the tour party but at Bombay he realised the hoax.  Kapil Dev was due to be flown home from the tour at the end of October because of a back injury but the tour was cancelled in any case.
	Fixtures/Results	§ Quetta Pakistan (1st ODI) Lost 46 r †Rawalpindi Pakistan XI (charity match) Won 57 r LAHORE PAKISTAN First Test DRAWN FAISALABAD PAKISTAN Second Test DRAWN § Sialkot Pakistan (2nd ODI) Abandoned     Cancelled Matches Peshawar Pakistan (3rd ODI) KARACHI PAKISTAN Third Test Karachi one-day benefit for Hanif Mohammad	† not first-class § one-day international . Time spent in Pakistan before First Test:  7 days (10 October - 17 October)
	Test appearances on tour	2 -   Amarnath, Gaekwad, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Kirmani, Patil, Sharma, Shastri, Vengsarkar 1 -   Binny, Madan Lal, Maninder, Yadav 0 -   Khanna, Parkar, Sandhu.
	Highlights	•    Mohinder Amarnath scored a century (101*) to ensure that India saved the match at Lahore •    India racked up 500 runs on Faisalabad’s typically flat pitch, including a stand of 200 between Patil (127) and Shastri (139) before Pakistan replied with their highest-ever total in a Test match (674-6).
	Tour Summary	P W L D Aban Cancelled Test Matches 2 0 0 2 - 1 Other first-class matches 0 - - - - - † Minor matches 1 1 0 0 - 1 § One-day internationals 2 0 1 0 1 1 All Matches 5 1 1 2 1 3
	Return to India	Following Mrs Gandhi's assassination the last three matches were cancelled and the team returned home on 1 November 1984.	Time away from India   22 days   (10 October - 1 November)
	Finances

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