Trevor Chappell Eddie Barlow. "Eddie once said to me early on in the series, 'You gotta stop trying to play like Ian or Greg and play like you. Just be Trevor.' That definitely helped me through World Series." Chappell's highlights that season included 93 against the West Indies and 126, 96 and 72 against the World XI. Chappell led the aggregates out of all players in the Country Tour, making 629 runs at an average of 33.1, including one century and four half centuries. This form helped earn Chappell selection in the Australian XI one day team for the International Cup that
Greg Chappell himself available for most overseas tours. Thus Kim Hughes was captain for the 1981 and 1982 tours of England and Pakistan respectively, before Chappell was returned the captaincy for the Australian summers of 1981-82 and 1982-83. Chappell retired as captain in 1983, playing his last test series (1983–84) under Hughes as captain. Chappell was captain of the ODI team concurrently with his Test captaincy, registering 21 wins and 25 losses from 49 matches; all but four of these matches were after the end of World Series Cricket, and Chappell never captained Australia in a Cricket World Cup tournament. His batting