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Tour of Pakistan
1989-90 Captain: Kris Srikkanth
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India's 28th Test tour
Fifth Test-playing tour of
Pakistan by India
(November - December
1989)
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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.
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Other Indian tours
Previous tour
West
Indies 1988-89
Next tour
New
Zealand 1989-90
Next Pakistan tour
2003-04
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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.
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S A Ankola
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Mh / W
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21
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RFM
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ODI
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Arshad Ayub
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Hd / S
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31
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OB
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ODI
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Mohammad Azharuddin
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Hd / S
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26
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RHB
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ODI
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Kapil Dev
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Hy / -
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30
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RHB RFM
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ODI
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R Lamba
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D / N
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29
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RHB
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ODI
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Maninder Singh
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D / N
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24
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SLA
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ODI
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S V Manjrekar
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B / -
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24
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RHB
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ODI
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K S More
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Ba / -
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27
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WK
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ODI
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M Prabhakar
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D / -
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26
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RFM
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ODI
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W V Raman
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TN / S
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24
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LHB
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ODI
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Vivek Razdan
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(D) / N
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20
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RFM
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ODI
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A K Sharma
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D / N
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25
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RHB SLA
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ODI
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R J Shastri
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B / -
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27
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RHB SLA vice-captain
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ODI
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N S Sidhu
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Pj / N
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26
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RHB opener
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ODI
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K Srikkanth
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TN / -
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29
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RHB opener captain
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ODI
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S R Tendulkar
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B / -
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16
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RHB
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ODI
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Joined the tour party for the
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ODI
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one-day
internationals
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ODI
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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.
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Test Appearances made before the tour
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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.
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Tour Officials
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Chandu Borde
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Tour Manager
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S K Nair
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2nd Official
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Physiotherapist
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Dr Vishwas
Rauf
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Doctor
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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).
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Selectors
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Raj Singh Dungarpur (chairman), Akash Lal, Ramesh Saxena, Naren Tamhane and Gundappa Viswanath met in Bombay.
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Selection
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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)
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Time between selection and departure from India
4 days (5 - 9 November)
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Travel
New Delhi Q Lahore
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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.
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Time spent in Pakistan
44 days
(9 November - 23 Dec)
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On-tour selection committee
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Chandu Borde
(manager), Kris Srikkanth
(captain), Ravi Shastri (vice-captain)
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Reinforcements
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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.
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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,
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†Lahore
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Pakistan XI (charity match)
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Lost 4 r
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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 First Test
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DRAWN
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FAISALABAD
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PAKISTAN Second Test
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DRAWN
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LAHORE
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PAKISTAN Third Test
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DRAWN
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SIALKOT
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PAKISTAN Fourth Test
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DRAWN
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§ Peshawar
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Pakistan (1st ODI)
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Abandoned
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†Peshawar
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Pakistan XI (20 overs)
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Lost 4 r
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§ Gujranwala
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Pakistan (2nd ODI)
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Lost 7 r
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§ Karachi
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Pakistan (3rd ODI)
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No result
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§ Lahore
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Pakistan (4th ODI)
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Lost 38 r
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†not first-class
§ one-day international
Time
spent in Pakistan before First Test: 6
days
(9
- 15 November)
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Test appearances on tour
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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.
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Highlights
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• 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.
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Tour Summary
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P
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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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4
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0
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0
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4
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Other first-class matches
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1
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0
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0
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1
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†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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4
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0
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2
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1
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1
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All Matches
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10
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0
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4
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6
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1
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Return to India
Lahore Q ?
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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.
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Time away from India
44 days
(9 November to 23 December)
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Finances
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Postscript
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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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