Graham
Gooch handed over to David Graveney as tour manager at the end of the Test
series, and Dean Conway took over as physiotherapist.
Selectors
David Graveney (chairman),
Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch and Alec Stewart (captain).
Selection
Unavailable : none
Tour
party announced : onSeptember 1998
On stand-by:Phil Tufnell and Andy
Caddick.
Not selected:.
Time between selection and departure from England
days
(September - 21 October)
Travel
LondonQPerth
The tour party flew out from Heathrow
Airport, London,
on the afternoon of 21 October, flying Emirates on the first leg of the
journey to Dubai
for a stopover to satisfy the flight sponsors.The team spent two hours there and six
hours in transit in Singapore
and touched down at Perth International Airport
after midnight after a marathon 30-hour trek from London.
After customs officials had made them clean their boots and
equipment before being admitted, captain Alec Stewart declined to speak to
the press until he had taken a rest at the Hyatt hotel.
The one-day specialistsAlleyne,
Ealham, Fairbrother, Giles, Adam Hollioake, Knight and Wells flew in at New
Year
Time spent in Australia
days
(23
October -
On-tour
selection panel
Alec Stewart (captain), Graham Gooch (manager), and David Lloyd (coach)
Reinforcements
G A
Hick
Wo
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RHBOB
Graeme
Hick flew out when Atherton was injured. He left London
on Monday 16 November and arrived in Brisbane
on 18 November. He remained with the tour party when Graham Thorpe flew home early (from Melbourne on 8 December) due to a back
injury.
Gavin
Hamilton and Ian Salisbury
played in some tour matches against the Bradman XI at Bowral
Fixtures/Results
The two matches against Queensland Academy of Sport took place
on 3 and 4 January while the fifth Test was in progress
Graham Thorpe flew home from Melbourne on 8 December due to a back
injury.
Atherton, Butcher, Cork, Fraser, Hegg, Ramprakash, Such and
Tudor flew home after the Test series.
approx 14 February 1999
Time away from England
x
days
(21 October - ? February)
Finances
Accounts
of the Tour
Postscript
Other
Test tours in 1998-99
Acknowledgements
To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive
(Gale Group);Jamaica Gleanor
archive;National Library of Australia
Trove; Papers Past NZ.
From former British Newspaper
Library, Colindale and online:The
Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra
Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent
(Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New
Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times,
Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune
Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.
Magazines/periodicals including
Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer
International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field
Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand,
Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’
Almanack.
Men In White, A History of
Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)
Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C.
Library at Lord’s Ground)ALL CONTENTS OF THE
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