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World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI
Personnel
CaptainSouth Africa Eddie Barlow
Team information
Founded1978
Home groundVarious

The World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI was a cricket team formed to play in World Series Cricket. Taking the International Cavaliers as its inspiration, the team was envisaged as a way of giving those players under contract to the WSC organisation, but not picked regularly for one of the three main teams (Australia XI, the West Indies XI and the World XI) regular match play and opportunities to win prize money. The team was formed in 1978, before the start of the second season of World Series Cricket, with a tour of Australia scheduled to take place at the same time as the main competition. This would see the Cavaliers play each of the other three WSC teams at a range of smaller venues around Australia between November 1978 and February 1979.

Cavaliers Country Tour 1978/79

Following the end of the 1977/78 World Series Cricket season, Kerry Packer's organisation signed up a second tranche of players to participate in the series. The consequence of this was that there were invariably more players available than there were places in the three WSC teams. To compensate for those players who were not being selected regularly, a new side was formed in 1978 that would undertake a tour of Australia. The plan was for this new side, which came to be called the "Cavaliers", to take on each of the other three WSC teams in turn in a series of both one-day and two-day games. The schedule would see whichever of the three teams was not playing either a Supertest or an International Cup game taking on the Cavaliers. This ensured not only that the "fringe" players got both match practice and access to prize money on offer by playing for the Cavaliers, but also that the other teams were also able to continue playing during "downtime" periods when they were not in the main WSC schedule. It had the further effect of bringing World Series Cricket to a number of smaller venues around the country, rather than restricting it to playing in the major cities.

The Cavaliers Country Tour eventually encompassed a total of 9 two-day games and 15 one-day games. These were scheduled in four separate blocks. The first three games were all one-day, with each scheduled against one of the other WSC teams and played in Western Australia. This was followed by a two-week tour of Queensland against the WSC West Indies XI, then another two-week tour of Victoria and New South Wales against the WSC Australia XI, with a final three-week stint against the WSC World XI, again in Victoria and NSW. The final game saw the Cavaliers take on the WSC West Indies XI in a two-day game in Tasmania.

Cavaliers overall record

Team Pld W L D A NR
WSC Australia XI 5 1 2 1 1 0
WSC West Indies XI 9 3 5 1 0 0
WSC World XI 10 1 7 1 0 1

WSC Cavaliers XI v WSC Australia XI

Dates(s) Team 1 Score Team 2 Score Result Venue
24 Nov 1978 WSC Australia XI WSC Cavaliers Match Abandoned Recreation Reserve, Bunbury, Western Australia
17 Dec 1978 WSC Australia XI 174/8 WSC Cavaliers 93 WSC Australia XI won by 81 runs Sports Ground, Maitland, New South Wales
23 Dec 1978 WSC Australia XI 183/7 WSC Cavaliers 85 WSC Australia XI won by 98 runs Showgrounds, Traralgon, Victoria
24 Dec 1978 WSC Cavaliers 172/6 WSC Australia XI 100 WSC Cavaliers won by 72 runs Football Ground, Morwell, Victoria
3-4 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 195
106/5 dec.		 WSC Australia XI 104
162/4		 Match Drawn Oakes Oval, Lismore, New South Wales

WSC Cavaliers XI v WSC West Indies XI

Dates(s) Team 1 Score Team 2 Score Result Venue
23 Nov 1978 WSC Cavaliers 224/6 WSC West Indies XI 225/5 WSC West Indies XI won by 5 wickets Sir Richard Moore Sports Centre, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
1-2 Dec 1978 WSC West Indies XI 214
84		 WSC Cavaliers 216/9 dec.
86/3		 WSC Cavaliers won by 7 wickets Barlow Park, Cairns, Queensland
3-4 Dec 1978 WSC West Indies XI 214
112/4		 WSC Cavaliers 131 Match Drawn Endeavour Park, Townsville, Queensland
6 Dec 1978 WSC Cavaliers 213 WSC West Indies XI 216/3 WSC West Indies XI won by 7 wickets Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay, Queensland
8-9 Dec 1978 WSC Cavaliers 339/9 WSC West Indies XI 290/5 WSC West Indies XI won by faster run rate Association Ground, Rockhampton, Queensland
10 Dec 1978 WSC West Indies XI 194/9 WSC Cavaliers 125 WSC West Indies XI won by 69 runs Queensland Almunia Sports Club Oval, Gladstone, Queensland
12 Dec 1978 WSC West Indies XI 214/3 WSC Cavaliers 173 WSC West Indies XI won by 41 runs Salk Oval, Currumbin, Queensland
13 Dec 1978 WSC West Indies XI 173 WSC Cavaliers 113/8 WSC Cavaliers won by faster run rate Gold Park, Toowoomba, Queensland
3-4 Feb 1979 WSC Cavaliers 78
208/5 dec.		 WSC West Indies XI 112
140		 WSC Cavaliers won by 31 runs Girdlestone Park, Devonport, Tasmania

WSC Cavaliers v WSC World XI

Dates(s) Team 1 Score Team 2 Score Result Venue
25 Nov 1978 WSC Cavaliers 181/8 WSC World XI 185/7 WSC World XI won by 3 wickets Recreation Reserve, Bunbury, Western Australia
26 Dec 1978 WSC Cavaliers 113 WSC World XI 10/1 No Result No. 1 Sports Ground, Newcastle, New South Wales
7 Jan 1979 WSC World XI 261/6 WSC Cavaliers 167 WSC World XI won by 94 runs Mildura City Oval, Mildura, Victoria
10-11 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 326/6 WSC World XI 329/7 WSC World XI win by 3 wickets Queen Elizabeth II Oval, Bendigo, Victoria
13-14 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 140
97		 WSC World XI 343 WSC World XI won by an innings and 106 runs No. 1 Oval, Tamworth, New South Wales
17 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 132 WSC World XI 135/4 WSC World XI won by 6 wickets Moran Oval, Armidale, New South Wales
20-21 Jan 1979 WSC World XI 170 WSC Cavaliers 219/2 Match Drawn Wade Park, Orange, New South Wales
24 Jan 1979 WSC World XI 167 WSC Cavaliers 168/0 WSC Cavaliers won by 10 wickets Robertson Oval, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
27-28 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 323/7 WSC World XI 324/7 WSC World XI won by 3 wickets Lavington Sports Oval, Albury, New South Wales
29 Jan 1979 WSC Cavaliers 158/9 WSC World XI 160/6 WSC World XI won by 4 wickets Melville Oval, Hamilton, Victoria

See also

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