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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.
1928 was the 35th season of County Championship cricket in England. The first Test series between England and West Indies team in England was won 3–0 by the host nation. Lancashire completed a hat-trick of titles.
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 ...
0–9. West Indian cricket team in England in 1900; West Indian cricket team in England in 1906; West Indian cricket team in England in 1923; West Indian cricket team in England in 1928
West Indies were scheduled to tour England in 1928, including their first Test matches. [5] The selectors organised three trial matches in Barbados in December 1927 and January 1928. [14] Small was dismissed only twice in five innings and scored 217 runs with a top-score of 81. [11] He also took five wickets, [12] and was selected to go on the ...
England by an innings and 58 runs Test 174: 21–24 July: Percy Chapman: Karl Nunes: Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester England by an innings and 30 runs Test 175: 11–14 August: Percy Chapman: Karl Nunes: Kennington Oval, London England by an innings and 71 runs
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]
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