In Search of West Indies Cricket

Guyana, Shell Shield and Geddes Grant/Harrison Line Trophy Champions 1983, back row, left to right: G E Charles, Kamal Singh, M A Lynch, R F Jospeh, R A Harper, C Butts, W H F White, D I Kallicharran; front row, left to right: L A Lambert, T R Etwaroo, S F A Bacchus, C H Lloyd (captain), R C Fredericks (manager/player), A A Lyght, M R Pydanna.
Guyana, Shell Shield and Geddes Grant/Harrison Line Trophy Champions 1983, back row, left to right: G E Charles, Kamal Singh, M A Lynch, R F Jospeh, R A Harper, C Butts, W H F White, D I Kallicharran; front row, left to right: L A Lambert, T R Etwaroo, S F A Bacchus, C H Lloyd (captain), R C Fredericks (manager/player), A A Lyght, M R Pydanna.

West Indies’ first double champions reunite

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour chats with Leslaine (Les) Lambert about the recent reunion to celebrate Guyana’s double triumph during the 1983 West Indies season, looks at snippets of the season and the aftermath.

Kanhai drives John Gleeson during the Fourth Test (Source: Captains on a See-Saw/Phil Tressider [1969])
Kanhai drives John Gleeson during the Fourth Test (Source: Captains on a See-Saw/Phil Tressider [1969])

When the chips are down

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at an entry in the  Forgotten Scoreboard File.

Charlie Davis at bat during the 1971 series versus India (Source: 1971 West Indies Cricket Annual)
Charlie Davis at bat during the 1971 series versus India (Source: 1971 West Indies Cricket Annual)

The Charlie Davis story

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the oft overlooked Test career of Charlie Davis, the Trinidadian Boy Wonder.

John Edrich is bowled by Rodriguez for 29 on the final day of the Fourth Test (Source: The MCC Tour of West Indies, 1968/Brian Close)

Sobers’ declaration at Port-of-Spain

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour examines the controversy surrounding the infamous declaration by Sobers in a Test match in Trinidad in 1968, and poses the question, did Sobers really declare?

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.

Nasser Khan (left) presenting Sir Garfield Sobers with a copy of his book at the Queen’s Park Oval, 24th November, 2018 (Photo by Ronald Daniel)

Cricket and calypso

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour delves into a book on West Indies cricket calypsoes.

The Waight way: Dennis Waight (standing, left) overlooking the West Indies team during
their pre-match stretching routine at Bourda, 18th March, 1995 5th ODI West Indies vs Australia

Worth his ‘Waight’

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the role of Australian Dennis Waight during the West Indies Cricket Team’s Glory Years of the 1980s and 1990s.

Overhead shot of the Queen’s Park Oval during the weekend of the 11th -12th March, 1995 (Photo: Queen’s Park Cricket Club Centenary Issue 1996)

The Prince, Play Whe, and Picong

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts a One Day International (ODI) between the West Indies and Australia at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, where he met a few characters and experienced Trinbago culture.

The 1981/82 West Indies team at the start of the streak in front of the Members Pavilion at the Sydney Cricket Ground (Photo from the Tradewinds’ album ‘We are the Champions’)

Bookended at Sydney

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at one of the most phenomenal feats in the annals of Test cricket, the West Indies’ record of 27 consecutive Test matches without defeat.

 1979 Prudential World Cup Champions, the West Indies (1980 West Indies Cricket Annual photo)

Hurricane King

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the 1979 Prudential World Cup Final between the West Indies and England.

The England team celebrate their astonishing victory, dousing Man-of-the-Match Alec Stewart with Tetley Bitter, their sponsor’s brew. Stewart, champagne in hand, is flanked by (left to right, front row) Chris Lewis, Skipper Mike Atherton, Robin Smith and Jack Russell. Tetley Bitter sponsored England’s cricket team from 1994 to 1998. (Photo from Caribbean Red Stripe Cricket Quarterly, Vol # 4, Issue # 3, July/September 1994)

The Fall of Kensington Fortress

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at an historic Test match between England and the West Indies Prologue “Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house,” attributed to English Sea Captain Thomas Walduck (who was possibly a privateer), in a letter to John Searle, his nephew in London, 1708, on the Historic London Town and Gardens website.

Man of the Series Greg Chappell on the go during the Fifth Supertest (1979 West Indies Cricket Annual/ Gordon Brooks photo)

Riots, rain, and an unsettled score

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the second of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the matches of the 1979 World Series Cricket Season in the Caribbean.

Kerry Packer

From peanuts to gravy

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the preamble to the 1979 World Series Cricket season in the Caribbean Origin of WSC In May 1977, World Series Cricket burst onto the international arena like a tsunami approaching the shallow waters of the coast.

A young Alma Hunt, the hero of the Somerset team in the 1930s, receiving one of his numerous trophies. Hunt broke all records for individual scoring in Cup Matches (Photo from thebermudian.com)

Bermuda’s Annual Cup match

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour explores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados The island grinds to a halt.

The cover of Michael Holding’s book

Holding to Boycott

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymourexplores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados As an event or a tale acquires folklore status distortions are liable to occur as it passes from generation to generation.

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