The
West Indies cricket team
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West I ...
toured Australia in the 1968-69 season and played a five-match
Test series against
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
. Australia won the series 3-1 with one match drawn.
Test series summary
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Fourth Test
Fifth Test
External sources
CricketArchive – tour summaries
Annual reviews
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Playfair Cricket Annual
''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to revie ...
'' 1969
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...
'' 1970
References
Further reading
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Bill Frindall
William Howard Frindall, (3 March 1939 – 29 January 2009) was an English cricket scorer and statistician, who was familiar to cricket followers as a member of the Test Match Special commentary team on BBC radio. He was nicknamed the Bearded ...
, ''The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978'', Wisden, 1979
* Chris Harte, ''A History of Australian Cricket'', Andre Deutsch, 1993
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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
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R.S. Whitington, ''Fours Galore: The West Indians and Their Tour of Australia, 1968-69'', Cassell, 1969
1968 in Australian cricket
1968 in West Indian cricket
1969 in Australian cricket
1969 in West Indian cricket
Australian cricket seasons from 1945–46 to 1969–70
International cricket competitions from 1960–61 to 1970
1968-69
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