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West Indian Cricket Team In England In 1933
The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1933, playing three Test matches, losing two of them and drawing the other. In all, the side played 30 first-class matches, winning only five and losing nine. The batting was led by George Headley, who scored almost twice as many runs as the next highest aggregate and averaged 66 runs per innings (the next best was 39). The bowling was spearheaded by the pace of Manny Martindale, from Barbados, who took 14 wickets in the Tests and 103 on the tour. He cut Wally Hammond's chin open at Old Trafford and, in partnership with Learie Constantine in this match, used the same bodyline tactics England had used the previous winter against Australia. Wisden in 1934 had George Headley as its Cricketer of the Year alongside English players Cyril Walters, Fred Bakewell, Les Townsend and Morris Nichols (see Wisden in Cricinfo). The touring team The team was captained by the former Cambridge University blue Jackie Grant, who had been captain on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies Cricket Team
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, 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 territories. , the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth in Test cricket, Tests, and tenth in One-Day International, ODIs and seventh in Twenty20 International, T20Is in the official International Cricket Council, ICC rankings. From the mid-late 1970s to the early 1990s, the West Indies team was the strongest in the world in both Test cricket, Test and One Day International cricket. A number of cricketers who were considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies: Sir Garfield Sobers, Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, George Headley, Brian Lara, Viv Richards, Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Alvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Barrow
Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow (6 January 1911 – 2 April 1979) was a Jamaican cricketer who played 11 Tests for the West Indies. Barrow was born to Hyam and Mamie Barrow, two Sephardic Jews on 6 January 1911, a twin to Frank Norton Barrow. He attended Wolmer's Schools. A wicket-keeper and opening batsman, he was the first West Indian to score a century in a Test match in England, which he did at Old Trafford in 1933. He also toured Australia and New Zealand during the 1930–31 season, and England again in 1939. In Adelaide in 1930, he became the first batsman to be dismissed by Don Bradman in Test cricket. Bradman took only one other Test wicket, that of Wally Hammond Walter Reginald Hammond (19 June 1903 – 1 July 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed cap ... in 1933. Barrow was one of the most notable Jews in Jamaica, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolph Grant
Rolph Stewart Grant (15 December 1909 – 18 October 1977) was a West Indian cricketer who captained West Indies on their 1939 tour of England. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1932 and 1933, and then for Trinidad from 1934 to 1939. Life and career Rolph Grant was a middle-order batsman and off-spin bowler. He made his highest first-class score for Trinidad against Barbados in 1933–34, when he scored 55 and 152, top-scoring in each innings. In the 10-wicket victory over Hampshire on the 1939 tour he top-scored with 54 and took his best figures of 4 for 41 and 2 for 24. When the West Indies needed an opening batsman during the 1939 tour he took over the role, opening with Jeffrey Stollmeyer in all three Tests, with a highest score of 47. He took over the captaincy of the West Indies team from his brother Jackie Grant. Two other brothers played cricket but without the same level of success. Rolph had not always been picked for the Cambridge Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the European Cricket Council (ECC) and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lord's is widely referred to as the ''Home of Cricket'' and is home to the world's oldest sporting museum. Lord's today is not on its original site; it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and 1814. His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands. His second ground, Lord's Middle Ground, was used from 1811 to 1813 before being abandoned to make way for the construction through its outfield of the Regent's Canal. The present Lord's ground is about north-west of the site of the Middle Ground. The ground can hold 31,100 spectators, the capacity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Francis (cricketer)
George Nathaniel Francis (11 December 1897 – 12 January 1942) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England. He was a fast bowler of renowned pace and was notably successful on West Indies' non-Test playing tour of England in 1923, but he was probably past his peak by the time the West Indies were elevated to Test status. He was born in Trents, St. James, Barbados and died at Black Rock, Saint Michael, also in Barbados. The 1923 tour of England With limited opportunities in the inter-colonial cricket of the Caribbean and as a professional, Francis had played no first-class cricket when he was picked for 1923 West Indies tour of England. Francis' obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1943 states that he was a "groundsman" and that his selection for the tour came about through the "influence" of the captain, Harold Austin. The Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, in ''Beyond a Boundary'', wrote of how the non-selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire League (cricket)
The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire. Its real importance is probably due to its history of employing professional players of international standing to play in the League. History The Lancashire Cricket League was formed on 16 March 1892, growing from the North East Cricket League that had been formed 17 months earlier. Currently in membership are Accrington CC, Bacup CC, Burnley CC, Church CC, Clitheroe CC, Colne CC, Crompton CC, Darwen Cricket Club, East Lancashire CC, Enfield CC, Great Harwood, Greenmount CC, Haslingden CC, Littleborough CC, Lowerhouse CC, Middleton CC, Nelson CC, Norden CC, Ramsbottom CC, Rawtenstall CC, Rishton CC, Rochdale CC, Todmorden CC (actually in Yorkshire) and Walsden CC (also in W Yorks). In the early years Bury CC were also members but they withdrew after participating for just two seasons. The earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Wiles
Charles Archibald Wiles (11 August 1892 - 4 November 1957) was a cricketer who played one Test for West Indies in 1933. A useful middle-order batsman whose first-class career extended from 1920 to 1936, Archie Wiles remains the second-oldest Test debutant for West Indies. He was 40 years and 345 days old when he appeared in the Second Test against England in 1933. He is surpassed in age only by Nelson Betancourt who was 42 years, 242 days old on his Test debut in 1930. In spite of some good performances with the bat in first-class cricket, Wiles failed when the big occasion came at Old Trafford in 1933, scoring just 0 and 2. Although he was born in Barbados, he played his domestic cricket for Trinidad in the Caribbean’s annual inter-colonial tournament. During his career, he surpassed fifty runs in an innings on eight occasions, twice going on to make a century: in February 1925 he scored 110 against British Guiana at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and two years later scored 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Valentine (cricketer)
Vincent Adolphus Valentine (4 April 1908 – 6 July 1972) was a West Indiean cricketer. He was born at Portland, Jamaica in 1908, and died at Kingston, Jamaica in 1972, aged 64. He was a fast-medium bowler that never really gave batsmen an easy shot, keeping as he did a perfect length, turning the ball both ways off the pitch and swinging it sharply through the air. He was also a forceful lower-order batsman and a safe fielder. He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in a memorable match at Melbourne Park, in February 1932 playing against Lord Tennyson's touring team. Although he did not bat, due solely to Jamaica's first innings score of 702 for 5 declared, he took four wickets in the match to play his part in Jamaica's victory by an innings and 97 runs. It was in this particular match that George Headley (344 not out) and Clarence Passailaigue (261 not out) made an unbeaten stand of 487 that remains a sixth-wicket record. After just one further match a year later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Sealey
Benjamin James Sealey or Sealy (12 August 1899 – 12 September 1963) was a West Indian cricketer whose career spanned the years 1924 to 1941. He was an attacking, middle-order batsman, a medium-pace, leg-break bowler and an athletic fielder anywhere in the field. Despite once turning out for a "Barbados-born" side against the Rest of West Indies, Sealey was a Trinidad player through and through. Biography Ben Sealey was born in Trinidad, at St. Joseph. He was into his mid-twenties by the time his first-class career started but in 1933 he was selected to tour England with a West Indian team captained by Jackie Grant. His tour was both busy, in terms of matches played, and reasonably successful with both bat and ball. From 22 first-class matches – he also played in 12 minor matches – Sealey scored 1,072 runs at an average of 39.70 and took 19 wickets at 38.15 apiece. He was picked to play in the third and final Test of the series, the only Test of his career, and was We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Roach
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 first-class level, he was chosen to tour England with a West Indies team in 1928 and scored over 1,000 runs. When England played in the West Indies in 1930, he recorded his ground-breaking centuries but had intermittent success at Test level afterwards. He toured Australia in 1930–31 and returned to England in 1933, when he once more passed 1,000 runs, but was dropped from the team in 1935. Within three years, he lost his place in the Trinidad team. Roach was generally inconsistent, but batted in an attacking and attractive style. Outside of cricket, he worked as a solicitor. Later in his life, he suffered from diabetes which necessitat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Merry
Cyril Arthur Merry (20 January 1911 – 19 April 1964) was a cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies. Merry was a hard-hitting right-hand batsman and occasional bowler who had played only a handful of matches for Trinidad before he was picked for the 1933 West Indies tour of England. He was one of the more forceful batsmen in the side, and his 146 in the match against Warwickshire was made at more than a run a minute. But he was not a success in the Test matches: at Lord's in the first match he made 9 and 1; recalled for the third match at The Oval he scored 13 and 11. An influential figure in Trinidad cricket over many years, Merry captained the Trinidad team in inter-colonial matches several times in the later 1930s, but never made another century or Test appearance. His bowling appears to have been used largely to change ends or break partnerships. Merry was also captain of the Queen's Park Cricket Club The Queen's Park Cricket Club (QPCC) is a cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Martin (cricketer)
Frank Reginald "Freddie" Martin (12 October 1893 – 23 November 1967) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England. A left-handed batsman and slow left-arm bowler born in Kingston, Jamaica, Martin played domestic cricket for Jamaica. He played in every Test in both of the West Indies' first two Test tours, in England in 1928 and in Australia in 1930-31. In the fifth Test at Sydney of the 1930-31 tour, he scored 123 not out in the first innings against the strong Australian bowling of the day, part of the West Indies' 350 for 6. Later he took four wickets for 111 runs. from Cricinfo
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