With COVID and everything I figured it was time to do another one of these nerd-intensive-but-not-entirely-irrelevant nostalgia pieces about Test XIs of the past I wish Australian had chosen. This one looks at Australia’s 1982 tour of Pakistan (called 1982-83 but it all happened in 1982). That tour doesn’t get talked much about in Australia […]
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This is the second in my series of hardcore deep dives into hypothetical XIs Australia should have played in years gone by.
This time I’m turning my attention to the 1978-79 Ashes, when Australia lost to England 5-1, and resulted in the establishment raising the white flag to World Series Cricket.
This result did not seem likely the previous summer, when Kerry Packer and company struggled and the official Australian XI defeated India 3-2 in a thrilling series. We lost in the West Indies, it is true, but the team did okay – if not for a riot, the end result would have been 3-2 rather than 3-1, which isn’t bad.
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