West Indian cricket team in England in 1950
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| West Indian cricket team in England in 1950 | |||
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| West Indies | England | ||
| Dates | 6 May – 5 September 1950 | ||
| Captains | John Goddard |
Norman Yardley Freddie Brown (4th Test only) | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | West Indies won the 4-match series 3–1 | ||
| Most runs | Frank Worrell (539) | Len Hutton (333) | |
| Most wickets | Alf Valentine (33) | Alec Bedser (11) | |
The West Indies cricket team toured England in the 1950 season to play a four-match Test series against England.
West Indies won the series 3–1 with no matches drawn. The second Test at Lord's was the first time that the West Indies had won a match in England; in that match Ramadhin took 5 wickets for 66 runs and 6 for 86, whilst Valentine took 4 for 48 and 3 for 79.[1]
Wisden in 1951 named four West Indian players as Cricketer of the Year. They were Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell. The fifth player was England wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans. For the source, see Wisden 1951 in Cricinfo.
The following players were selected for the tour:
- John Goddard (captain) (Barbados)
- Robert Christiani (Guyana)
- Gerry Gomez (T&T)
- Hines Johnson (Jamaica)
- Prior Jones (T&T)
- Roy Marshall (Barbados)
- Lance Pierre (T&T)
- Allan Rae (Jamaica)
- Sonny Ramadhin (T&T)
- Jeff Stollmeyer (T&T)
- Kenneth Trestrail (T&T)
- Alf Valentine (Jamaica)
- Clyde Walcott (Barbados)
- Everton Weekes (Barbados)
- Cecil Williams (Barbados)
- Frank Worrell (Barbados)
Eleven of the sixteen players had already appeared in test cricket. Ramadhin and Valentine made their test debuts in this series. Marshall made his test debut in a later series. Trestrail and Williams never played test cricket.
