In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the forgotten scoreboard from the 1981 Shell Shield Match between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. At first glance it looks like just another drawn Shell Shield game between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana at Bourda. Closer perusal of the match reveals otherwise…
Friday, January 23, 1981. A Test match size crowd has gathered for the 11 am start. The weather forecaster’s prediction of scattered showers was met with a cloudless blue sky, gentle breeze and warm sunshine. It was Guyana’s first home game for the season, and the Test players Clive Lloyd, Alvin Kallicharran, Colin Croft and Faoud Bacchus were named in the 13-man squad published in the daily newspaper on Thursday and Friday. The other players named were Andrew Lyght, Mark Harper, Tyrone Etwaroo, Derek Kallicharran, Milton Pydanna, Keshwar Persaud, Jerry Angus, Ray Joseph and Dennis Hewitt.
The West Indies had just beaten Pakistan 1-0 in a low scoring four
