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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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Follow live coverage of Pakistan vs West Indies from the West Indies in Pakistan 2025 today. The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two-team ...
The three-Test series in 1939 between England and the West Indies was completed on Tuesday, 22 August. This was the day before the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, in reaction to which Great Britain formalised the Anglo-Polish military alliance on Friday, 25 August. The West Indians were due to play Sussex at Hove, starting on Saturday, 26 August.