Test Cricket Tours - England to Pakistan 1987-88

Test Cricket Tours - England to Pakistan 1987-88

Tour of Pakistan 1987-88                      Captain : Mike Gatting

England’s sixty-eighth Test tour
(November - December 1987)

Sixth Test playing tour of Pakistan
(previous tour 1983-84)

The tour followed immediately after the Reliance World Cup in which England reached the final.
The most significant moment of the tour came in the Faisalabad Test with the on-field row between England captain Mike Gatting and umpire Shakoor Rana, who accused him of cheating. It came at the end of a day's play in which there had been some friction between them. Next day the match could not proceed until Gatting made an apology.

All England tours

Previous Test tour
Australia 1986-87

Next Test tour
Australia and New Zealand
1987-88

Next tour of Pakistan
2000-01

Members of the Test tour party (17)

Opening batsmen:  Graham Gooch, Tim Robinson, Chris Broad
Middle-order batsmen Bill Athey, Neil Fairbrother, Mike Gatting,
Wicket-keepers: Jack Russell, Bruce French.
All-rounder: David Capel
Slow bowlers: John Emburey, Eddie Hemmings, Nick Cook
Fast bowlers: Graham Dilley, Neil Foster, Phil DeFreitas, Gladstone Small, Paul Jarvis

C W J Athey
Yo
30
RHB
RWC

B C Broad
Nt
30
LHB opener
RWC

D J Capel
Nth
24
RHB   RFM

N G B Cook
Nth
31
SLA

P A J DeFreitas
Le
21
RHB   RFM
RWC

G R Dilley
Wo
28
RF

J E Emburey
Mx
35
OB   vice-captain
RWC

N H Fairbrother
La
24
LHB

N A Foster
Ex
25
RFM
RWC

B N French
Nt
28
WK

M W Gatting
Mx
30
RHB captain
RWC

G A Gooch
Ex
34
RHB opener
RWC

E E Hemmings
Nt
38
OB
RWC

P W Jarvis
Yo
22
RFM
RWC

R T Robinson
Nt
29
RHB opener
RWC

R C Russell
Gs
24
second WK

G C Small     added
Wk
25
RFM
RWC

Members of the World Cup squad
P R Downton
RWC

A J Lamb
RWC

D R Pringle
RWC


County representation:

Ex - Essex (2)
Gs - Gloucestershire (1)
La - Lancashire (1)
Le - Leicestershire (1)
Mx - Middlesex (2)
Nth - Northamptonshire (2)
Nt - Nottinghamshire (4)
Wk - Warwickshire (1)
Wo - Worcestershire (1)
Yo - Yorkshire (2)


Average age of team at time of first Test match
(25 November 1987) :
  28 yrs 4 months

RWC :member of the Reliance World Cup squad

Test Appearances made before the tour

Gooch 59, Gatting 59, Emburey 46, Dilley 30, Robinson 21, Foster 19, Athey 17, Broad 14, Cook 9, French 9, Hemmings 5, DeFreitas 5, Small 4, Capel 1, Fairbrother 1 , Jarvis 0, Russell 0.

Tour Officials

Peter Lush
Tour manager
Micky Stewart
Assistant manager
Laurie Brown
Physiotherapist
P Austin
Scorer
Dr A.Hall
Doctor

Peter Lush entered into a three-year contract with the the TCCB as tour manager, putting him in charge of all England's overseas tours until 1990, starting with the Reliance World Cup before this tour.

Selectors

Peter May (captain), Phil Sharpe, Fred Titmus, Micky Stewart, Mike Gatting (captain), joined by Alan Smith (TCCB Chief Executive), Raman Subba Row (TCCB Chairman) and Ossie Wheatley (Chairman of the Cricket Committee).

Selection

Unavailable :   Ian Botham, David Gower, Paul Downton, Vic Marks.
Tour party announced : 30 August 1987.

Time between selection and departure from England
   31 days
(30 August - 30 September)

Travel
? Q Colombo

The England World Cup party which had landed in New Delhi on 30 September did not return home after the Final but flew from Calcutta to Karachi on 11 November, and on to Islamabad. They were joined in Pakistan by Capel, Cook, Dilley, Fairbrother, French and Russell.
England planned to avoid risk of tropical stomach diseases by flying in tinned food and a microwave oven from home - but the consignment went astray and was delayed by several days.

Time spent in Pakistan (excluding World Cup)
   42 days
(11 November - 23 December)

On-tour selection panel

Mike Gatting (captain), John Emburey (vice-captain), Micky Stewart (cricket manager)

Reinforcements

Paul Jarvis returned home early for treatment to a finger injury. Gladstone Small, though due to return home after the World Cup, remained with the tour party owing to Jarvis's finger injury.

Fixtures/Results

a
ϯ Rawalpindi
Pakistan Prime Minister’s XI (50 overs, warm-up match)
Won 53 r
b
Lahore
Lahore Gymkhana (50 overs, warm-up match)
Won 129 r
c
§ Gujranwala
West Indies(Reliance World Cup)
Won 2 w
d
§ Rawalpindi
Pakistan (Reliance World Cup)
Lost 18 r
e
§ Peshawar
Sri Lanka (Reliance World Cup)
Won 108 r
f
§ Karachi
Pakistan (Reliance World Cup)
Lost 7 w
g
§ Jaipur
West Indies (Reliance World Cup)
Won 34 r
h
§ Pune
Sri Lanka (Reliance World Cup)
Won 8 w
i
§ Mumbai
India(Reliance World Cup)
Won 35 r
j
§ Kolkata
Australia(Reliance World Cup final)
Lost 7 r

k
Rawalpindi
B C C P President's XI
Drawn
l
§ Lahore
Pakistan (1st ODI)
Won 2 w
m
§ Karachi
Pakistan (2nd ODI)
Won 23 r
n
§ Peshawar
Pakistan (3rd ODI)
Won 98 r
o
LAHORE
PAKISTAN First Test
LOST inns 87
p
Sahiwal
Punjab Chief Minister's XI
Drawn
q
FAISALABAD
PAKISTAN Second Test
DRAWN
r
KARACHI
PAKISTAN Third Test
DRAWN

† not first-class
§ one-day internationals

Time spent in Pakistan (excluding World Cup) before First Test:
6 days
(11 November - 17 November)

Test appearances on tour
(v Pakistan 1987-88)

3 -   Athey, Broad, Capel, Cook, Emburey, French, Gatting, Gooch.
2 -   DeFreitas, Foster, Robinson.
1 -   Dilley, Fairbrother, Hemmings.
0 -   Jarvis, Russell, Small.

Match appearances

T Test match
o one-day international
x other match

W won L lost D drawn
N no result   A abandoned
u unknown result

RELIANCE WORLD CUP

PAKISTAN TOUR

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j

k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
C W J Athey
x

o
o
o
o
o
o

x
o
o
o
T
x
T
T
B C Broad

x
o
o
o

x
o
o
o
T
x
T
T
D J Capel

x
o
o
o
T
x
T
T
N G B Cook

x

o
T
x
T
T
P A J DeFreitas
x
x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

o
o
o
T
x

T
G R Dilley

x

x

T
P R Downton
x
x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

J E Emburey

x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

o
o
o
T
x
T
T
N H Fairbrother

x
o
o
o

x

T
N A Foster
x
x
o
o

o
o
o
o
o

o
o
o
T

T

B N French

o
o

T
x
T
T
M W Gatting
x
x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

x
o
o
o
T

T
T
G A Gooch
x
x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

o
o
o
T

T
T
E E Hemmings
x

o
o
o
o
o
o

x
o
o

x
T

P W Jarvis
x

x

A J Lamb
x
x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

D R Pringle
x
x
o
o
o

R T Robinson
x

o
o

o
o
o
o
o

x

T
x
T

R C Russell

x

o

G C Small

x
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

RESULTS
W
W
W
L
W
L
W
W
W
L

D
W
W
W
L
D
D
D

England’s six previous Test tour results

Highlights

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Tour Summary

P
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
3
0
1
2
-
Other first-class matches
2
0
0
2
-
†Minor matches

-
§ One-day internationals
3
3
0
0
-
All Matches

Return to England
Karachi Q London

Paul Jarvis flew home on 7 December.
The team left Karachi on the morning of 23 December for Heathrow Airport.

Time away from England
  84 days
(30 September- 23 December)

Finances

Account of the tour

"A Cricket Odyssey" by Scyld Berry (Pavilion Books, 1988)