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Tour
of India & Pakistan 1974-75
Captain: Clive Lloyd
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Eighteenth West Indies Test tour
Fourth Test-playing tour of India by
West Indies
Second Test-playing tour of Pakistan
(November 1974 -
March 1975)
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India made a splendid recovery after losing the
first two Test matches in the series.
With the Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi at the
helm again, India beat West Indies in a home Test for the first time in the
third Test at Calcutta and again, thanks to her spin bowlers, at
Madras. But with everything set up
nicely for a close finish in the deciding final Test match at Bombay, West
Indies annihilated the home side with a huge total headed by a double
century from Lloyd. West Indies won despite a serious crowd disturbance
which threatened the completion of the match.
There was crowd trouble in Pakistan by which
time the West Indians were worn out by the arduous travelling and the
constant cricket. The Pakistan
series failed to produce a result only because rioting cost 2½ hours, which left West Indies too little time
to chase their target to win.
Gary Sobers had retired but skipper Rohan Kanhai remained available for selection. However, the
selectors did not choose him and turned to the younger Clive Lloyd as the
new captain. They wrote expressing
their appreciation of Kanhai’s contribution on
eight previous tours. Viv Richards
was picked for his first tour despite having a career batting average only
in the 20s, but scored 192 not out in his second Test appearance.
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Other West Indies tours
Previous tour
To England 1973
Next tour
To Australia 1975-76
Next tour of India
1978-79
Next tour of Pakistan
1980-81
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Members of the Test tour party (17)
Opening batsmen:
Gordon Greenidge,
Len Baichan, Roy Fredericks.
Middle-order batsmen
Alvin Kallicharran,
Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Lawrence Rowe.
Wicket-keepers:David Murray, Deryck
Murray
Spin bowlers
Arthur Barrett, Lance Gibbs, Albert Padmore, Elquemedo Willett.
Fast bowlers
Keith Boyce, Van Holder, Bernard Julien,
Andy Roberts.
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L Baichan
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G
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28
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LHB opener
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A
G Barrett
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Ja
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30
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LBG
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K
D Boyce
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B
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31
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RFM
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R
C Fredericks
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G
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32
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LHB opener
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L
R Gibbs
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G
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40
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OB
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C
G Greenidge
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B
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23
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RHB opener
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V
A Holder
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B
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29
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RFM
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B
D Julien
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T
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24
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RHB RFM
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A
I Kallicharran
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G
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25
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LHB
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C
H Lloyd
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G
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30
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LHB captain
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D
A David Murray
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B
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24
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second
WK
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D
L Deryck Murray
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T
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31
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WK vice-captain
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A
L Padmore
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B
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27
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OB
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I
V A Richards
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L
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22
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RHB
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A
M E Roberts
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L
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23
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RF
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L
G Rowe
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Ja
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25
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RHB
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E
T Willett
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L
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21
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SLA
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Regional
representation :
Shell Shield teams
B
- Barbados (5)
G - Guyana (5)
JA
- Jamaica (2)
L - Leeward Islands (3)
T - Trinidad & Tobago (2)
Average
age of team at time of first Test
match
(22
November 1974) :
27 yrs 10 months
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Test Appearances made before the
tour
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Gibbs
66, Lloyd 36, Fredericks 32, Deryck Murray 22,
Holder 16, Kallicharran 15, Boyce 12, Rowe 12,
Julien 8, Barrett 4, Willett 3, Roberts 1, Baichan
0, Greenidge 0, David Murray 0, Padmore 0, Richards 0.
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Tour Officials
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Gerry
Alexander
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Manager
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L
Pink
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Physiotherapist
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There
was no assistant manager to enable a physiotherapist to be funded
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Selectors
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Clyde
Walcott (Chairman), J K Holt, Joe Solomon with the assistance of new
captain Clive Lloyd, who flew over from England where he was playing county
cricket.
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Selection
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Clive
Lloyd was appointed captain on 25 May, and Gerry Alexander as manager and Deryck Murray as the vice-captain on the same day. This
was a month before the tour party though the post-holders were usually
named after the team was announced.
Unavailable: Maurice Foster, Gary Sobers.
Tour
Party Announced : 20 June 1974.
Not selected
: Rohan Kanhai, Inshan
Ali, Raphick
Jumadeen.
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Time between selection and departure
from West Indies
135 days
(20 June
- 2 November)
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Travel
BridgetownQ
LondonQ
Bombay
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The team left the Caribbean on 2
November 1974.
They flew from London to Bombay,
arriving at Santa Cruz Airport on 4 November.
For their Sri Lanka tour the team
arrived at Colombo’s Katunayeke Airport (Banderanaike International Airport) on the afternoon of
Saturday 1 February. They left BIA
on Wednesday 12 February, arriving at Karachi and flying on to Lahore on
the same day.
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Time spent in India, Sri Lanka and
Pakistan
123 days
(4 November - 7 March)
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On-tour selection panel
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Clive
Lloyd, Deryck Murray,
Lance Gibbs, Gerry Alexander (manager).
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Reinforcements
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None. Lawrence Rowe played two matches before difficulties
with his eyesight forced him to leave the tour. He left Bombay on 29
December after a series of eye tests and flew to London to have contact
lenses fitted. Before the tour was over, he was able to take practice again
back home. "He
complained of problems with his eyes.
An optician in Poona was unable to diagnose the cause and Rowe
struggled on. Opticians eventually told him that one eye was short sighted
and he flew to London immediately in a bid to get some specialist advice.
There they told him not to go back to the tour and the decision was made
not to replace him." [Gordon Greenidge Man in the Middle]
Keeping wicket in the dying
stages of the Fifth Test, Greenidge hurt his back
which kept
him out of all but one match of the remaining five weeks.
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Fixtures/Results
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Pune
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West
Zone
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Drawn
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Indore
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Indian
Universities
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Drawn
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Hyderabad
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South
Zone
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Won
9 w
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BANGALORE
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INDIA First Test
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WON
by 267 r
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Jaipur
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Board
President's XI
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Drawn
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Jalandhar
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North
Zone
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Drawn
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DELHI
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INDIA Second Test
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WON
inns 17 r
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Nagpur
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Central
Zone
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Won
inns 96 r
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CALCUTTA
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INDIA Third Test
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LOST
85 r
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Cuttack
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East
Zone
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Won
inns 75 r
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MADRAS
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INDIA Fourth Test
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LOST
100r
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Ahmadabad
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Karnataka
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Drawn
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BOMBAY
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INDIA Fifth Test
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WON
201 r
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â€
Bombay
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Indian
XI (Wadekar benefit)
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Lost
4 w
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â€
Bombay
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Indian
XI (Wadekar benefit)
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Lost
5 w
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Colombo
(CCC)
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Sri
Lanka
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Drawn
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Colombo
(PSS)
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Sri
Lanka
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Drawn
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§Colombo (SSC)
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Sri
Lanka(one-day)
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Won
8 w
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Lyallpur
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Prime
Minister's XI
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abandoned
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LAHORE
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PAKISTAN First Test
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DRAWN
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Rawalpindi
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BCCP
Patron's XI
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Drawn
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KARACHI
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PAKISTAN Second Test
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DRAWN
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§ ODI
ϯnot
first-class
Time
spent in India before First Test: 18
days
(4
November - 22 November)
Time
from end of final Test until departure from Pakistan 1 day
(6 March - 7 March )
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Test appearances on tour
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7 -
Fredericks, Gibbs, Kallicharran,
Lloyd, Deryck
Murray, Roberts, Richards
6 -
Holder, Julien
5 -
Boyce, Greenidge
4 -
2
- Baichan, Barrett,
Willett
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- David Murray, Padmore, Rowe.
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Highlights
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• Greenidge scored
93 and 107 on his Test debut (at Bangalore) and later in Pakistan Len Baichan scored 105* on his first Test appearance (at
Lahore).
• Viv Richards first Test century (192 at
Delhi) including six sixes came on his 2nd Test appearance.
• Andy Roberts took 32 wickets, the record
in the series until 1983-84, including 7-64 at Madras.
• Gibbs took 7 for 98 in India's first
innings at Bombay.
• Roy Fredericks scored 100 at Calcutta and
104 at Bombay, but this record was overshadowed by Clive Lloyd who scored
163 at Bangalore and 242 * at Delhi:
a total of 636 runs in the five-Test series.
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Tour Summary
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W
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L
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D
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Aban
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Test Matches
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7
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3
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2
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2
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Other first-class matches
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11
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3
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0
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8
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1
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ϯ Minor matches
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2
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0
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2
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0
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§ One-day internationals
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1
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1
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0
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0
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All Matches
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21
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7
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4
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10
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1
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Return to West Indies
KarachiQ
LondonQ
Bridgetown
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The
team left Karachi on 7 March 1975, flying from Karachi to London.
Most
of the players went home by way of the route to Seawell
Airport, Barbados, but Barrett arrived at Norman Manley Airport, Jamaica, on
9 March and manager Alexander arrived there on 11 March. He had spent a few
days in London tying up the loose ends of the tour.
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Time away from West Indies
127 days
(2 November - 9 March)
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Finances
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Published accounts of the tour
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"India vs West Indies" Sunder Rajan [Jaico
Publisher, 1975]
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Postscript
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This tour saw the emergence of key
players in the great West Indian sides of the ‘seventies and ‘eighties.
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