World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI

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

• World Series Cricket results
• World Series Cricket player records
• WSC Australia XI
• WSC West Indies XI
• WSC World XI

• Cavaliers Country Tour 1978/79 - ESPN Cricinfo