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Test Cricket Tours - India to Pakistan 1989-90

 

 

Tour of Pakistan 1989-90        Captain: Kris Srikkanth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

India's 28th Test tour

 

Fifth Test-playing tour of  Pakistan by India

 

 

(November - December 1989)

 

A ban imposed on six players for taking part in an unauthorised visit to North America after the 1989 West Indies tour was first deferred and then cancelled on appeal. The Board was also unable to enforce its ban preventing the players from writing articles during the tour.

Demands for a 70 per cent increase in payments were rejected and the players (except those on their first tour) refused to accept the existing tour fees.  All but three of the Indian squad handed their fees back to the Cricket Board in protest at the rejection of their pay claims and refused to accept the tour fees of 50 000 rupees ($3000 each). The exceptions were the three junior members : Vivek Razdan who had played only one first-class match (for the Rest of India) before being selected for the tour;  Sachin Tendulkar, who made his first Test appearance at Karachi to become India's youngest-ever player; and Salil Ankola.

This was the first Test series to make use of neutral umpires. John Holder and John Hampshire officiated and there were noticeably better on-field relations between the two teams. Any trouble came from spectators, the Karachi ODI being called off owing to the crowd throwing stones at the Indian players.

 

 

Other Indian tours

 

 

Previous tour

West Indies 1988-89

 

 

Next tour

New Zealand 1989-90

 
 

Next Pakistan tour

2003-04

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour  party  (16)

 

 

Opening batsmen:Kris Srikkanth, Navjot Singh Sidhu

Middle-order batsmen: Mohammad Azharuddin, Sanjay Manjrekar, Sachin Tendulkar, Raman Lamba, Woorkeri Raman.

Wicket-keeper:  Kiran More.

Spin bowlers   Ravi Shastri, Ajay Sharma, Maninder Singh, Arshad Ayub,

Fast bowlers:  Kapil Dev, Salil Ankola, Manoj Prabhakar, Vivek Razdan.

 

 

 

 

 

S A Ankola

Mh / W

21

RFM

ODI

 

Arshad Ayub

Hd / S

31

OB

ODI

 

Mohammad Azharuddin

Hd / S

26

RHB

ODI

 

Kapil Dev

Hy / -

30

RHB   RFM

ODI

 

R Lamba

D / N

29

RHB

ODI

 

Maninder Singh

D / N

24

SLA

ODI

 

S V Manjrekar

B / -

24

RHB

ODI

 

K S More

Ba / -

27

WK

ODI

 

M Prabhakar

D / -

26

RFM

ODI

 

W V Raman

TN / S

24

LHB

ODI

 

Vivek Razdan

(D) / N

20

RFM

ODI

 

A K Sharma

D / N

25

RHB    SLA

ODI

 

R J Shastri

B / -

27

RHB     SLA    vice-captain

ODI

 

N S Sidhu

Pj / N

26

RHB  opener

ODI

 

K Srikkanth

TN / -

29

RHB  opener  captain

ODI

 

S R Tendulkar

B  / -

16

RHB

ODI

 

Joined the tour party for the

 

ODI

  one-day internationals

 

ODI

 

 FLAG_India

 

 

Zonal representation

 Duleep Trophy teams

C: Central (0), E: East (0), N: North (7), S: South (4), W: West (5)

 

Seven of the side did not take part in the 1989-90 Duleep

 

 Ranji Trophy teams

Ba - Baroda (1)

B   -  Bombay (3)

D  -  Delhi (5)

Hy – Haryana (1)

H  -  Hyderabad (2)

Mh – Maharashtra (1)

Pj -  Punjab (1)

TN - Tamil Nadu (2)

  

  

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(15 November 1989) :

     25 yrs  7 months

 

 

 

ODI:  Member of the ODI squad for the Wills Challenge series.

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Kapil Dev 99,  Shastri 55,  Srikkanth 35,  Maninder 31,  Azharuddin 30,  More 24,  Arshad Ayub 11,  Sidhu 9,  Manjrekar 5,  Lamba 4,  Raman 3,  Prabhakar 2,  AK Sharma 1,  Ankola 0,  Razdan 0,  Tendulkar 0.  

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Chandu Borde

Tour Manager

S K Nair

2nd Official

 

Physiotherapist

Dr Vishwas Rauf

Doctor

 

S Karunakaran Nair of Kerala Cricket Association later served the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as Treasurer (1993-97), as Finance Committee chairman (1998-2002), and as BCCI Secretary (2003 to 2005).

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Raj Singh Dungarpur (chairman),  Akash Lal,  Ramesh Saxena,  Naren Tamhane and Gundappa Viswanath met in Bombay.

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

On 5 November  Srikkanth was retained as Indian captain for the Pakistan tour.

Unavailable:  Dilip Vengsarkar opted out of the tour because of mental and physical staleness.

Tour party announced:   5 November 1989.

Not chosen:  Arun Lal,  Mohinder Amarnath,  Atul Wassan,  Venkatapathy Raju.

Vivek Razdan was the first player to come through the MRF Pace Foundation to play for the national team.

When the players demanded an increase in their tour payments the Board threatened to select a completely new team.  The selectors were asked to report to Delhi on 8 November to select another team but the team members signed their contracts under protest

There were 8 stand-bys for the tour:  Atul Wasson,  Venkatapathy Raju;  M Chaturvedi,  K P Bhaskar, M Venkatarama,  Ajay Jadeja,  Shantanu Sugwekar,  Gursharan Singh (who was stood down when it was learned he had a broken finger)

 

 

Time between selection and departure from India  

  4 days    (5 - 9 November)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

New Delhi  Q   Lahore

 

The tour was brought forward by one week to accommodate the West Indies Board's request for an extra Test match.????

The team left New Delhi for Lahore on 9 November 1989 and played a match the next day.

 

 

 

Time spent in Pakistan

   44 days

(9 November - 23 Dec)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection committee

 

Chandu Borde (manager),  Kris Srikkanth (captain),  Ravi Shastri (vice-captain)

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

The tour selectors requested that Chetan Sharma should be sent because Salil Ankola suffered a thigh injury in the first Test and missed the second, but the Indian Board refused.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

 

The tour opener was played for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Fund.

 The 20-over match at Peshawar was played as an exhibition match when the ODI was abandoned,

 

 

† Lahore

Pakistan XI (charity match)

Lost 4 r

Rawalpindi

BCCP Patron's XI

Drawn

KARACHI

PAKISTAN   First Test

DRAWN

FAISALABAD

PAKISTAN   Second Test

DRAWN

LAHORE

PAKISTAN   Third Test

DRAWN

SIALKOT

PAKISTAN   Fourth Test

DRAWN

§ Peshawar

Pakistan  (1st ODI)

Abandoned

† Peshawar

Pakistan XI (20 overs)

Lost 4 r

§ Gujranwala

Pakistan  (2nd ODI)

Lost 7 r

§ Karachi

Pakistan  (3rd ODI)

No result

§ Lahore

Pakistan  (4th ODI)

Lost 38 r

 

 

 

 

not first-class

§  one-day international

 

 

Time spent in Pakistan before First Test: 6 days

(9 - 15 November)

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

4  -   Azharuddin,  Kapil Dev,  Manjrekar,  More,  Prabhakar,  Shastri,  Sidhu,  Srikkanth, Tendulkar

3  -  Maninder Singh,

2  -  Arshad Ayub, Razdan,

1 -   Ankola

0 -   Lamba, Raman, A Sharma

 

Ajay Sharma played only in the unofficial one-day match against Pakistan XI at the start of the tour.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

     At Karachi  Kapil Dev played his hundredth Test and Sachin Tendulkar (16 years 205 days) made his debut, becoming the third youngest Test player.

    Manoj Prabhakar had five wickets in an innings at Karachi (5-104) and Faisalabad (6-132)

    Azharuddin scored a century (109) to ensure the second Test at Faisalabad would not be lost

    Vivek Razdan took 5-79 at Sialkot on his second Test appearance.

    Sanjay Manjrekar scored 569 runs (average 94.83) in the Test series, including 218 at Lahore.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

 P

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

  4

0

0

4

-

Other first-class matches

  1

0

0

1

-

Minor matches

  2

0

2

0

-

§ One-day internationals

  4

0

2

1

1

All Matches

10

0

4

6

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to India

 

Lahore  Q   ?

 

The Indians departed for home from Lahore Airport on Saturday 23 December. They were seen off at the airport by officials of the BCCP and LCCA.

 

 

Time away from India

  44 days

 (9 November to 23 December)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

 

 

Postscript

 

 

The Indian Board appointed Bishan Singh Bedi as India’s first coach in December 1989 and he made a Test tour in that capacity for the first time to New Zealand in January 1990.

 

 

 



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