In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour examines the controversy surrounding the infamous declaration by Sobers in a Test match in Trinidad in 1968, and poses the question, did Sobers really declare?
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues the calypso in cricket theme from last week, by looking at a calypso composed by a West Indian cricketer which was probably better known in Australia and New Zealand than in the West Indies.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the final episode of the saga, Roger Seymour looks at the Third Test of the 1988 Cable and Wireless Pakistan/West Indies Test Series.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the role of Australian Dennis Waight during the
West Indies Cricket Team’s Glory Years of the 1980s and 1990s.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the origin of the broadcast of live televised Test Cricket from the West Indies.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the first postage stamps issued to commemorate the game in the Caribbean.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts a One Day International (ODI) between the West Indies and Australia at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, where he met a few characters and experienced Trinbago culture.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at one of the most phenomenal feats in the annals of Test cricket, the West Indies’ record of 27 consecutive Test matches without defeat.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the 1979 Prudential World Cup Final between the West Indies and England.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at an historic Test match between England and the West Indies
Prologue
“Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house,” attributed to English Sea Captain Thomas Walduck (who was possibly a privateer), in a letter to John Searle, his nephew in London, 1708, on the Historic London Town and Gardens website.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the second of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the matches of the 1979 World Series Cricket Season in the Caribbean.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the preamble to the 1979 World Series Cricket season in the Caribbean
Origin of WSC
In May 1977, World Series Cricket burst onto the international arena like a tsunami approaching the shallow waters of the coast.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour
explores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados
The island grinds to a halt.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymourexplores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados
As an event or a tale acquires folklore status distortions are liable to occur as it passes from generation to generation.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the second of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the aftermath of the presentation of the Governance Committee Report on West Indies Cricket – better known as the Patterson Report – to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in 2007.