This week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket is presented in the form of a play. Roger Seymour looks at a cricket match from the 1980s. The cricket data and references are factual, and the banter is the writer’s imagination. Today is 36 years and a day since this match was played.
Windward Islands, Caribbean
St Vincent and the Grenadines, a necklace chain of 32 islands and cays, part of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where pirates, privateers and buccaneers of yore laid in wait. Legend has it that Captain William Kidd favoured Friendship Bay, others opted for Admiralty Bay on the other side of the Grenadine Island of Bequia – ancient Arawak word meaning “clouds in the sky.”
In 1895, an English amateur side led by Robert Slade Lucas visited the
