In Search of West Indies Cricket

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour reviews a book documenting England’s Tour of the West Indies in 1986.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour presents the second part of the Mike Findlay interview.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the career of Windward Island cricketer, Mike Findlay.

By Roger Seymour In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour presents the second instalment of a day’s events during the 1997 Nortel West Indies Youth Cricket Tournament hosted by Guyana.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour revisits a day during the 1997 Nortel West Indies Youth Cricket Tournament hosted by Guyana.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour returns to the dossier exploring the 15 losses incurred by the West Indies in the 115 Tests played between the 1980 Tour of England and the 1995 visit to New Zealand, during which they remained unbeaten in 29 Test series.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts an interview with Reg Scarlett, the former West Indies off-spinner.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour profiles the 1986 film  “Playing Away”, which is based on a play by Caryl Phillips.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts a visit to the Kensington Oval, Barbados during the post-match celebrations of the 1997 Third Test match between the West Indies and India, addressed in last week’s “An Easter tale”.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies cricket Roger Seymour reminisces on the final day of a Test Match in Barbados.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Roger Seymour looks at a Test Match that evolved into somewhat of a precursor of T20 cricket.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the second match of the West Indies campaign in the 1975 Prudential World Cup Tournament.

In this week’s edition of In Search Of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the Test Match which the Barbadians opted not to attend.

By Roger Seymour In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour examines the making of Kabir Khan’s epic film 83 and the legendary cricket match it pays homage to.

Question: What was the mood at the team meeting the night before the Test, bearing in mind that it was going to be Clive’s last Test match and the team had a chance to become the first West Indies side to go through a full tour of Australia unbeaten in Tests?

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues to look at the Test matches lost by the West Indies during their streak of not losing a Test series from the summer of 1980 to February 1995.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour begins to examine an oft overlooked aspect of the West Indies streak of not losing a Test series from the summer of 1980 to February 1995 Recently I was rummaging through my library when I stumbled across Edmar Mednis’ How to beat Bobby Fischer.

Part III Born to lead …………………………….. Friday, 23rd, March, 1962, West Indies v India, Third Test, Kensington Oval, Barbados Frank Worrell, the West Indies Captain and his Indian counterpart, the Ninth Nawab of Pataudi strode down the steps of the Pickwick Pavilion, and headed out on to the pitch to spin the toss. 

Part II Winchester – Sussex – Oxford In his final season at Winches-ter, The Noob erased the former England Captain (in the infamous Bodyline series) Douglas Jardine’s forty year old batting records, which had previously been considered untouchable,  of 997 runs in a season at an average of 66.46, by compiling 1068 runs at 71.20 per innings. 

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour, in the first of two parts, looks at the early star-crossed life of cricket’s first Superstar.