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The West Indian players were mainly talented understudies struggling to break into the great West Indian Test team of the period, or men past their prime as Test players. . First-class cricketers in the West Indies were then poorly paid and the participants, many of whom had irregular or no employment in the off-season, received between US$100,000 and US$125,000 for the two tou
West Indies won the 6-match series 4–2 In late 1983 and early 1984, a representative team of West Indian cricket players undertook a so-called "Rebel tour" to South Africa [ 1 ] to play a series of matches against the South African team .
Courtney Walsh—the leading Jamaican wicket taker in Tests and ODIs. The island nation of Jamaica is one of the regions which makes up the West Indies cricket team. It has produced international cricketers in all forms of the game—Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
Rowe later captained two rebel tours to South Africa. This came during apartheid when the country was isolated from world sport. [9] The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) thereafter banned the side's players for life, though this ban was eventually lifted in 1989. The Windies rebels twice toured South Africa in both the 1982–83 and 1983–84 ...
In December 2007, Samuels was named man of the match after scoring 94 and 40 in the first Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth, a match the West Indies won by 128 runs. [26] He went on to score his second Test hundred, in the final match, hitting 105 although it wasn't enough for his side to win the match or the series.
The South African cricket team was touring West Indies from 19 May to 30 June 2010. The tour consisted of two Twenty20s (T20), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Tests . The fifth ODI and the first Test, as well as a tour match, was scheduled to be played at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica , but due to the 2010 Kingston unrest ...
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, [10] is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and ...
The Jamaica national cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Jamaica. The team competes under the franchise name, Jamaica Scorpions in the Cricket West Indies' Professional Cricket League which comprises both the Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50. Jamaica has won a sum of 12 regional first class ...