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Deryck Lance Murray (born 20 May 1943) is a former West Indies cricketer. A wicketkeeper and right-handed batsman, Murray kept wicket to the West Indian fast bowling attacks of the 1970s (including Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft ); his glovework effected 189 Test dismissals and greatly enhanced the potency of the ...
Carew captained Trinidad and Tobago and was the first man to take the side to consecutive Shell Shield titles. Carew went on to serve as a selector for West Indies cricket for 20 years, in three separate stints, retiring from the post in 2006. He was known to be a mentor to Brian Lara, [3] whom he took in as a young teen. Christopher Martin ...
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1971 to 1980. The West Indies cricket team was in transition as the 1970s began and it suffered a humiliating series defeat on the 1975–76 tour of Australia. New captain Clive Lloyd was determined that such a defeat must never happen again and decided that the lessons of that tour ...
The first major international cricket played in the West Indies was between local, often predominantly white, sides and English tourists – the Middlesex player Robert Slade Lucas toured the West Indies with a team in 1894–95, [9] and two years later Arthur Priestley took a team to Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica, which included, for the first time, a match against a side styled "All West ...
Of the nine other Trinidadians to have captained the West Indies, Brian Lara has led the side the most times in Tests with 47 appearances. [3] Lara has captained the West Indies 125 times in ODIs, which is a West Indies record. [4] Lara has scored the most runs by a Trinidadian, and most runs by a West Indian overall, in Tests and ODIs.
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1946 to 1970. First-class cricket in the West Indies had begun in February 1865 and the federation began playing Test cricket in 1928, but it was not until the 1965–66 West Indian cricket season that a formal domestic competition was founded, this being the Shell Shield which has subsequently evolved into the Carib Beer Cup.
Sonny Ramadhin. Sonny Ramadhin, CM (1 May 1929 – 27 February 2022) was a West Indian cricketer, and was a dominant bowler of the 1950s. He was the first of many West Indian cricketers of Indian origin, and was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1951. He is most famous for his performance in the West Indies' 1950 tour of England ...
England 1993–94. 1st Test at Sabina Park, Kingston – West Indies won by 8 wickets. 2nd Test at Bourda, Georgetown – West Indies won by an innings and 44 runs. 3rd Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad – West Indies won by 147 runs. 4th Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados – England won by 208 runs.