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≤The Australian cricket team toured Pakistan in the 1982–83 season to play a three-match Test series against Pakistan. Pakistan won the test series 3–0, and one day series 2–0. Australia failed to win a single game on the entire tour. In the words of ''Wisden'', "The Australians proved ill-equipped to cope with a Pakistan side beginning to exert its international authority under the leadership of Imran Khan... For Pakistan it was the country's finest cricketing hour. Their three-nil Test victory was unprecedented in a short series there... It all amounted to a tour to rank among the most dismal ever made by an Australian side."〔 Australia's wicketkeeper on the tour, Rod Marsh, later wrote that "the more you think of the 1982 Australian cricket tour of Pakistan the more you want to forget it."〔Marsh p 8〕 ==Australian squad== Australia had just defeated Pakistan 2–1 at home during the 1981–82 summer season and several of the players had previously toured Pakistan. Captain Greg Chappell and fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Len Pascoe who had all just toured New Zealand were all unavailable for selection on the tour. The original squad selected were as follows: *Batsmen - Kim Hughes (captain), Allan Border (vice-captain), Graham Yallop, Graeme Wood, Bruce Laird, John Dyson, Greg Ritchie, Wayne Phillips (also back up wicketkeeper) *Fastbowlers - Jeff Thomson, Geoff Lawson, Ian Callen, Terry Alderman *Spinners - Bruce Yardley, Peter Sleep, Ray Bright *Wicketkeeper - Rod Marsh *Manager - Col Egar *Tour doctor - Dr Paul Koenig *Tour physiotherapist - Fergus Nelson Rod Marsh refused to serve as vice captain under Kim Hughes, saying he wanted "to give a younger player the experience of being vice-captain." He was replaced by Border. The selection panel on tour was Hughes, Border and Laird. ''Wisden'' later reported "it seemed that Kim Hughes had a strong and well-balanced team under his command."〔 Hughes thought the team was in better shape than the squad which lost to Pakistan in 1980: We struggled before, but the spinning combination of Ray Bright and Bruce Yardley, the left- and right-arm orthodox bowlers, gives us a better balance and makes me optimistic of winning the series... But I'm not underestimating our quicks. Jeff Thomson can get us into a winning position if the wickets allow. But he may not be able to get amongst them on the final day and our spinners will have to knock them over.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 1982–83」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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