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West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1968–69

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TheWest Indies cricket team toured Australia in the 1968-69 season and played a five-matchTest series againstAustralia. Australia won the series 3-1 with one match drawn.

Test series summary

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First Test

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6–10 December 1968
(5–day match)
Scorecard

West Indies	v	Australia
296 (95 overs) RB Kanhai 94 AN Connolly 4/60 (19 overs)		284 (98.4 overs) IM Chappell 117 (263) LR Gibbs 5/88 (39.4 overs)
353 (87 overs) CH Lloyd 129 (222) JW Gleeson 5/122 (33 overs)		240 (88.6 overs) IM Chappell 50 GS Sobers 6/73 (33.6 overs)

West Indies won by 125 runs
Brisbane Cricket Ground,Woolloongabba,Brisbane
Umpires:CJ Egar andLP Rowan

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
9 December was taken as a rest day.
The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.

Second Test

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26–30 December 1968
(5–day match)
Scorecard

West Indies	v	Australia
200 (73 overs) RC Fredericks 76 (226) GD McKenzie 8/71 (28 overs)		510 (136.3 overs) WM Lawry 205 (416) GS Sobers 4/97 (33.3 overs)
280 (98.4 overs) SM Nurse 74 (192) JW Gleeson 5/61 (26.4 overs)

Australia won by an innings and 30 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground,Melbourne
Umpires:CJ Egar andLP Rowan

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.
CA Davis,RM Edwards andRC Fredericks (all WIN) made their Test debuts.

Third Test

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3–8 January 1969
(5–day match)
Scorecard

West Indies	v	Australia
264 (75.1 overs) CH Lloyd 50 (61) GD McKenzie 4/85 (22.1 overs)		547 (121.6 overs) KD Walters 118 (185) WW Hall 3/113 (26 overs)
324 (93 overs) BF Butcher 101 (233) JW Gleeson 4/91 (26 overs)		0/42 (8 overs) KR Stackpole 21* (31) AP Sheahan 21* (33)

Australia won by 10 wickets
Sydney Cricket Ground,Sydney
Umpires:CJ Egar andLP Rowan

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
6 January was taken as a rest day.

Fourth Test

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24–29 January 1969
(5–day match)
Scorecard

West Indies	v	Australia
276 (65.3 overs) GS Sobers 110 EW Freeman 4/52 (10.3 overs)		533 (126.5 overs) KD Walters 110 LR Gibbs 4/145 (43 overs)
616 (137.2 overs) BF Butcher 118 AN Connolly 5/122 (34 overs)		9/339 (84 overs) IM Chappell 96 CC Griffith 2/73 (19 overs)

Match drawn
Adelaide Oval,Adelaide
Umpires:CJ Egar andLP Rowan

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
26 January was taken as a rest day.
The Test set the record for the highest match aggregate in a 5-day Test match (1,764 runs) and held it untilthe Rawalpindi Test of England's tour of Pakistan from 1–5 December 2022 with a total of 1,768 runs. The aggregate remains the 4th highest in Test history.^[1]
Records related to the high aggregate runs are: most fifties in a Test match,^[2] Test match with most runs and nowides being bowled^[3] and highest match aggregate without a partnership of 150 runs or more.
The Test is also one of the closest ever drawn Tests as the match was drawn with nine wickets down with 21 runs required. There are only 4 drawn Test matches ending with nine wickets down and fewer runs remaining.^[4] Garry Sobers called it "the most exciting match I have played in next to the tied Test."^[5]
A key element of the exciting fourth innings was the record 4 run outs (an innings record shared with just one other Test match^[6]). The first run out was aMankad run out (Ian Redpath byCharlie Griffith, the second of only 4 such run outs in Test matches). The other run outs were the first three partners of the very fast runner between wicketsPaul Sheehan (Doug Walters on 50,Eric Freeman andBarry Jarman). Australia slumped from 4 for 315 to 7 for 322 in their quest for either the 360 target or survival for a draw, with Sheehan left with the tailenders. The pitch was described as "still perfect".^[7]

Fifth Test

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14–20 February 1969
(6–day match)
Scorecard

Australia	v	West Indies
619 (152.7 overs) KD Walters 242 (412) WW Hall 3/157 (35.7 overs)		279 (76.6 overs) MC Carew 64 (94) AN Connolly 4/61 (17 overs)
8/394d (92 overs) IR Redpath 132 (277) GS Sobers 3/117 (26 overs)		352 (64.2 overs) SM Nurse 137 (204) JW Gleeson 3/84 (15.2 overs)

Australia won by 382 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground,Sydney
Umpires:CJ Egar andLP Rowan

West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
17 February was taken as a rest day.

External sources

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CricketArchive – tour summaries

Annual reviews

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Playfair Cricket Annual 1969
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1970

References

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^"Highest match aggregates".ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved5 December 2022.
^"Test Most Fifties in a Match".The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved5 December 2022.
^Walmsley, Keith (2003).Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley. p. 375.ISBN 0947540067.
^"Closest draws by wickets remaining".ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved7 July 2025.
^"West Indies play thriller at Adelaide in 1969".cricketcountry. Indiadotcom Digital. Retrieved7 July 2025.
^"Most batsmen run out in an innings".ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved7 July 2025.
^"ROHAN RIVETT AT THE TEST Wild run-outs end victory hopes".The Canberra Times. 30 January 1969. p. 30 – via National Library of Australia.

Bill Frindall,The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
Chris Harte,A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
Ray Robinson,On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
Phil Tresidder,Captains on a See-saw: The West Indies Tour of Australia, 1968-69, Souvenir, 1969
R.S. Whitington,Fours Galore: The West Indians and Their Tour of Australia, 1968-69, Cassell, 1969

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Afghanistan	2021–22 (cancelled)
Bangladesh	2003 2008 2026
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Zimbabwe	1994–95 2003–04 2022

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

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Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13 2021
Fijian	1907–08
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83 2025
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977–78 1978–79
Pakistan A	2024