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A still shot from the rehearsal of the 1975/76 West Indies team to Australia’s TV commercial for Brut Shampoo taken from YouTube

A forgotten cricket calypso

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues the calypso in cricket theme from last week, by looking at a calypso composed by a West Indian cricketer which was probably better known in Australia and New Zealand than in the West Indies.

Narendra Hirwani in action

The wizardry of Hirwani

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour returns to the dossier exploring the 15 losses incurred by the West Indies in the 115 Tests played between the 1980 Tour of England and the 1995 visit to New Zealand, during which they remained unbeaten in 29 Test series.

 Kensington Oval

A sticky wicket at Kensington

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts a visit to the Kensington Oval, Barbados during the post-match celebrations of the 1997 Third Test match between the West Indies and India, addressed in last week’s “An Easter tale”.

Kim Hughes

A Boxing Day century for the ages – Part 1

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour begins to examine an oft overlooked aspect of the West Indies streak of not losing a Test series from the summer of 1980 to February 1995 Recently I was rummaging through my library when I stumbled across Edmar Mednis’ How to beat Bobby Fischer.

The Ninth Nawab of Pataudi  in a reflective moment

Cricket’s Prince Charming

Part II Winchester – Sussex – Oxford In his final season at Winches-ter, The Noob erased the former England Captain (in the infamous Bodyline series) Douglas Jardine’s forty year old batting records, which had previously been considered untouchable,  of 997 runs in a season at an average of 66.46, by compiling 1068 runs at 71.20 per innings. 

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