Prologue
On 8th January, 1987, it was announced that the 1988 Australia Tour of the West Indies had been cancelled. President of the Australia Cricket Board (ACB) Dave Richards said the West Indies Cricket Board had called off the tour, but undisclosed sources related that the West Indies were very disappointed. The sources suggested that with the West Indies scheduled to play five Tests in Australia during the 1988/89 season, the ACB was reluctant to expose Allan Border’s young side to the West Indies for ten Tests in a calendar year. Australia had won only one match in the previous ten Tests.
14Th – 16th May, 1987: West Indies Cricket Board of Control (WICBC) Meeting in Kingston, Jamaica. Following the confab, the board released a provisional itinerary for the 1988 Pakistan Tour of the Caribbean. It was a packed schedule of three four-day games, five one day internationals and three Tests. It was the first time that only three Tests were slated for a home series, which was sandwiched between the West Indies visit to India (1987/88) and the 1988 summer tour of England.
