In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour concludes his cricket match from the 1980s in the form of a play. The cricket data and references are factual, and the banter is the writer’s imagination.
Act Four: Scene One
Visitors’ Dressing Room
Alan Smith glances at the invitation for the umpteenth time, and decides against revealing its contents to the team. It had been delivered to their hotel last evening, and he had initially thought it was a joke of some kind, but the British High Commissioner had assured him shortly after, at Sir Sydney Gun-Munro’s reception, that it was authentic and it was the experience of a lifetime.
Boycott and Gooch depart to open the innings,
