West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1975–76
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Part of West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1975–76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 29 October 1975–5 February 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Australia won the 6-Test series 5-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The West Indies cricket team toured Australia in the 1975–76 season and played a 6 Test matches and 1 ODI against Australia.
The test series was built up as an unofficial World Championship series for tittle of best test team in the world. The West Indies entered the series after winning 1975 World Cup defeating Australia with several exciting young talents most notably in Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Viv Richards.[1] Australia win the first test in Gabba convincingly by 8 wickets[2] but West Indies came back and defeat them in WACA by an innings. However, Australia recovered and pummeled the West Indies in remaining games and won the series by 5–1.
The series was a watershed event in West Indies cricket history who thereafter opted the formula of playing four out and out fast bowlers after witnessing the destruction caused by Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson bowling close to 100 mph.
Gordon Greenidge who went into the tour as an exciting young batter struggle badly against Lillee and Thomson before eventually dropped after his confidence was crushed. Therefore, Clive Llyod opted to use Viv Richards as opener with Roy Fredericks in last two tests. Despite getting good starts Viv failed to capitalise in first four games although coming at first in last two games he scored two centuries and one fifty ending the tour with 426 runs in 10 innings. This tour was also described as come of age for Viv Richards who went on to became the best batsman in the world and one of few positives for West Indies ina dreaded tour.[3]
This was first test series for Greg Chappell as captain of Australia succeeding his brother Ian Chappell. In last test at MCG, Lance Gibbs took his 308th test scalp passing Fred Trueman.[4]
Test series summary[]
First Test[]
28 November – 2 December 1975
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
- 1 December was taken as a rest day.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
- MA Holding (WIN) made his Test debut.
Second Test[]
12 – 16 December 1975
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329 (69.7 overs)
IM Chappell 156 (261) MA Holding 4/88 (18.7 overs) |
585 (95.4 overs)
RC Fredericks 169 (145) JR Thomson 3/128 (17 overs) | |
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- 15 December was taken as a rest day.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
Third Test[]
26 – 30 December 1975
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224 (47 overs)
RC Fredericks 59 (115) JR Thomson 5/62 (11 overs) |
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312 (69.2 overs)
CH Lloyd 102 (121) DK Lillee 3/70 (15 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- 29 December was taken as a rest day.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
- GJ Cosier (AUS) made his Test debut.
Fourth Test[]
3 – 7 January 1976
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82/3 (18.1 overs)
IR Redpath 28 (50) AI Kallicharran 1/7 (2 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- 6 January was taken as a rest day.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
- GN Yallop (AUS) made his Test debut.
Fifth Test[]
23 – 28 January 1976
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299 (63.4 overs)
IVA Richards 101 (136) GJ Gilmour 3/44 (10.4 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- 25 January was taken as a rest day.
Sixth Test[]
31 January – 5 February 1976
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160 (30.3 overs)
IVA Richards 50 (54) GJ Gilmour 5/34 (10 overs) | ||
326 (54.5 overs)
IVA Richards 98 (103) JR Thomson 4/80 (12.5 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- 3 February was taken as a rest day.
Only ODI[]
Between the 2nd and 3rd Tests a 40 over ODI was played.
20 December 1975
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West Indies
224 (37.6 overs) |
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Australia
225/5 (31.5 overs) |
IVA Richards 74 (87)
MHN Walker 4/19 (6.6 overs) |
References[]
- ^ "West Indies in Australia, 1975-76". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ "Australia v West Indies". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ "Australia v West Indies". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ "Australia v West Indies". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
Annual reviews[]
Further reading[]
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
External links[]
- West Indies tour of Australia 1975-76 on ESPN Cricinfo
- CricketArchive – tour summaries
- 1975 in Australian cricket
- 1975 in West Indian cricket
- 1975–76 Australian cricket season
- 1976 in Australian cricket
- 1976 in West Indian cricket
- International cricket competitions from 1975–76 to 1980
- West Indian cricket tours of Australia
- International cricket tour of Australia stubs