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The West Indies cricket team that toured England in the 1928 season was the first to play Test cricket. The team was not very successful, losing all three Tests by an innings and winning only five of the 30 first-class matches played.
23 June 1928 England West Indies: 3–0 [3] — — — ... West Indies in England. Test series No. Date Home captain Away captain Venue Result Test 173: 23–26 June ...
Playing in the fourth Test against the West Indies in 1930 at Sabina Park, in Kingston, Jamaica, he was aged 52 years and 165 days on the final day's play. The oldest West Indian Test player is George Headley who was aged 44 years and 230 days when he represented West Indies for the final time in the 1954 tour by England at Sabina Park. [214]
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Clifford Archibald Roach (13 March 1904 – 16 April 1988) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test match in 1928. Two years later, he scored the West Indies' first century in Test matches, followed two matches later by the team's first double century. Roach played for Trinidad, but before having any great success at ...
The 1891–92 season had seen the first Inter-Colonial Tournament in the West Indies and these took place irregularly until the Second World War, winners in the inter-war period being: 1922-23 – Barbados; 1923-24 – Barbados; 1924-25 – Trinidad and Tobago; 1925-26 – Trinidad and Tobago; 1926-27 – Barbados; 1928-29 – Trinidad and Tobago
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He was in England in the summer of 1926 playing a number of matches for M.C.C. and the Gentlemen v Players. Although he didn't have great success in the trial matches in 1927–28 he was an automatic choice for the West Indies' initial Test tour of England in 1928. He played in the three Tests during the tour but, turning 40 years of age during ...