is runs first; and lunch later", Ritchie said. "I think my winter fitness campaign is paying off. I'm more confident and I think my approach to the game is more mature... Now I put more value on my wicket and try to make the bowlers work hard for it." He was selected in the Prime Ministers XI and got back in the Australian one day team. He was also selected for the 1984 tour of the West Indies. Ritchie was injured towards the end of the summer and there was some doubt he might make the tour but he recovered in time. Ritchie played in all five tests. He started the tour well with 64 against Guyana. His best performance came in the first when he scored 78. He also made 57 in the third test. One notable incident on the tour had Ritchie and Wayne Phillips miss the beginning of a tour game because they slept in. He scored 99 against Barbados. Ritchie was selected on the short one-day-international tour of India. He made 59 in the last game, the only one Ritchie played. Ritchie started the 1985-85 summer with a century against Victoria for Queensland. However he was overlooked for the first two tests against the West Indies. He was put on stand-by for the third test as a possible back up for Alan Border, who was injured – but in the end he managed to play. Ritchie replaced Kim Hughes for the fifth test. He was injured while batting but managed to complete his innings of 37. Ritchie was picked in the Australian one day team. He was also selected to tour England in 1985. Ritchie also batted in the famous 1984/85 Sheffield Shield final, narrowly lost by Queensland against New South Wales. Ritchie began the Ashes well with 72 in the first tour game, 100 against Sussex. and 115 against Leicestershire. He was picked in the first test. He scored 46 in the first innings but dropped Tim Robinson when the latter was on 22; Robinson went on to score a century. "Ritchie is Australia's greatest liability in the field, whether in a catching position or in the deep", said one reporter. He scored 1 in the second innings. Ritchie redeemed himself in the second test, his first innings score of 94 helping lay the platform for an Australian victory. He went on to score a