England tour of West Indies, 2003/04 news from Cricinfo.com

England delay squad announcement

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The ECB has delayed the announcement of the West Indian Test and one-day tour parties, and will now unveil its squads on Wednesday afternoon

Jones looking towards Caribbean comeback

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Simon Jones has earmarked England's tour to the Caribbean in March as a possible comeback date

West Indies deny Washington rumours

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The West Indies Cricket Board has denied reports that Dwight Washington has been reported to the International Cricket Council for a suspect bowling action

Botham: give Hussain the chop

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Ian Botham, the former England allrounder and now TV commentator, has called for Nasser Hussain to retire from international cricket to let the younger players come through

England's arrested development

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

As the dust settled on an eventful tour, Michael Vaughan was full of the usual end-of-series platitudes

Trescothick sets up England's victory

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

England ended their long tour of the Caribbean on a high note with a five-wicket victory in the seventh and final one-dayer at Bridgetown

Fletcher calls for final effort

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

England probably can't wait to get home, after a fortnight of rain interruptions and on-pitch reversals that have taken the sheen off one of their most clinical Test triumphs in recent years

Gough nears the end of the road

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The vultures are circling round Darren Gough

Best called up for final one-dayer

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Tino Best, the Barbados fast bowler, has been called up to the West Indian squad for the seventh and final one-day international against England, which is to be played in Bridgetown on Wednesday (May 5)

Lara's ideal birthday present

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

At the end of his epic innings in Antigua last month, Brian Lara said that he would have gladly traded in his world record in return for a West Indian victory

West Indies cruise to victory

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

West Indies cruised to their second victory in the space of two days against England to go 2-1 up in the series with one to play

The best parties are impromptu

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

St Lucia is an island of 90,000 people, of which 10,000 bought tickets for a weekend of one-day cricket that no right-minded person believed was remotely possible

Sarwan and Smith provide the final flourish

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Smith marched West Indies to a dramatic and at one stage unlikely five-wicket victory against England in the fifth one-dayer in St Lucia

The rains relent at last

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

England's one-day series in the Caribbean is finally set to resume, after the rains that have blighted the region for a fortnight relented to allow this afternoon's fifth match in St Lucia to get underway as planned

West Indies count the cost of washouts

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The heavy rain throughout the Caribbean which has decimated the one-day series with England has left the West Indies board facing considerable losses

Yet another washout

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

After a week of heavy downpours, the fourth one-dayer in Grenada went the way of the previous two, and was abandoned

Jones cleared to play for Glamorgan

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Simon Jones has been given permission to play in Glamorgan's game against Cardiff UCCE on at Sophia Gardens this Wednesday

Blackwell bides his time

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Back in October, Ian Blackwell might have had high hopes of consolidating his England one-day place with a winter of steady performances

England play the waiting game

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Michael Vaughan is approaching the remainder of England's one-day series in the Caribbean with mixed feelings

Gough sets sights on 2007 World Cup

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Darren Gough may have retired from Test cricket, but he remains adamant that he can carry on playing one-day cricket for at least another two years

More rain in Port-of-Spain

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Last Sunday's game was a truncated affair, yesterday's lasted just 16 overs, but the third one-day international was the shortest of the lot

Anderson strikes before the rain

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

James Anderson, the forgotten man of England's tour of West Indies, struck with the third ball of his comeback, as England took the upper hand in the second one-day international in Trinidad

Vaughan questions heavy schedule

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Michael Vaughan has hit out against the busy scheduling in England's one-day series against West Indies

England's Caribbean Test series victory to be released on DVD

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Released on May 17 A special DVD marking England's 3-0 Test series victory in the West Indies will be released in May

Brian Lara's world-record innings to be released on DVD

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Released on May 17 A special DVD commemorating Brian Lara's historic 400 not out will be released on DVD in May

West Indies boosted by Lara's return

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

In today's hectic schedule, it seems like an eternity since Chris Read bludgeoned that sweet 17 in the penultimate over to steal an unlikely victory for England in the first one-dayer at Georgetown last Sunday

Ponting points finger at 'selfish' Lara

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

A week on from Brian Lara's epic quadruple-century against England in Antigua, and the backlash has begun Down Under

The quiet man makes his point

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

When Chris Read was cruelly jettisoned from last week's fourth Test, his predicament generated an extraordinary wave of sympathy

Wet weather threatens Guyana one-dayer

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The first one-day international between West Indies and England at Georgetown, Guyana, has come under threat due to wet conditions

Lara tells his team-mates to sharpen up

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Brian Lara has called for his team-mates to buck up their ideas ahead of West Indies' series against Bangladesh, and not let his world-record 400 not out paper over the cracks in the side after their 3-1 series defeat to England

England's warm-up game washed out

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

England's only one-day warm-up match before the series starts was washed out today without a ball being bowled

England's Test heroes made to wait at the airport

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Just when England's Test heroes thought they could relax after their Caribbean conquest, four of the players on their way back to England had their flight delayed by 24 hours this morning after a passenger suffered a heart-attack

England and India move up in the Test table

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

England have moved up to third place in the ICC's Test Championship table after their 3-0 win in the Carribean while India's 2-1 series win in Pakistan has lifted them to fourth place

Lara reclaims top batting spot

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Brian Lara has reclaimed top spot of the PricewaterhouseCoopers batting ratings in the wake of his record-breaking 400 not out

Lara out of one-day series opener

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Brian Lara is likely to miss the first three one-day internationals against England, after being advised to rest for ten days to recover from a fracture to the little finger on his right hand

Vaughan praises a true team effort

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Michael Vaughan was delighted with his team's performance after England had dug deep to secure a draw on the final day of their series in the Caribbean

Pluses, minuses and the odd record

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The series snoozed to a close in Antigua today - an unremarkable ending to a remarkable rubber

Vaughan century seals the draw

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Michael Vaughan produced a captain's innings of 140, to put his personal seal on an historic 3-0 series victory in the Caribbean

Pluses,

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

After the amazing scenes yesterday - Brian Lara reclaiming the world record, and the first prime minister on the field of play for, well, ten years - today it was back to a more recognisable form of Test cricket

Hayden: 'Lara has taken it to another level'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Matthew Hayden, Australia's former world-record-holding batsman, has said he could tell that Brian Lara had history on his mind, after watching footage of his phenomenal quadruple-century on the news

After the Lord Mayor's Show

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Chanderpaul returns for ODI series

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The West Indian selectors have named a 14-man squad for the forthcoming seven-match one-day series against England, only half of whom are currently playing in the Antigua Test

Flintoff reminds England how to do it

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Marcus Trescothick and Michael Vaughan chugged along to their first half-centuries of the series, as England made the perfect start to their second innings, after following on a massive 466 runs in arrears

Sir Vivian Richards Foundation launched

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The Sir Vivian Richards Foundation was launched in Viv's native Antigua on Saturday night (April 10), with a gala dinner at the Crystal Palace Ballroom at the Royal Antiguan Hotel

England in strife after Lara's 400

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:42:15 GMT

The West Indies captain takes the record for highest Test score back

Lightning strikes twice for Lara

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

It's one of cricket's spookier stats that both the batsmen with two Test triple-centuries to their name strutted their stuff at the same ground each time - Don Bradman at Headingley, and Brian Lara at the Recreation Ground in St John's, Antigua

Lara's theme

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

In this prescient article from Wisden Cricket Monthly in January 1994, Stephen Thorpe profiled the young West Indian batting star, Brian Lara

The highest score in Test cricket

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
How the record for the highest score in Test cricket has changed hands over the years

The last emperor

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The inevitable is finally upon us

Lara reaffirms his greatness

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Brian Lara completely and utterly dominated the second day of the final Test at Antigua

A perfect pitch

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
For the first time in this unpredictable series - albeit for two sessions - today went how everyone predicted at the start of the tour

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Match home

West Indies v England, 4th Test, Antigua

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Match home

Lara's return to form inspires West Indies

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
After three Tests where, by and large, everything came fairly easily to England's bowlers, they found the going far harder on a pitch devoid of pace and bounce

Powell to replace Chanderpaul

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Ricardo Powell has been drafted into the West Indies Test side in place of Shivnaraine Chanderpaul for the fourth Test against England

One of the true gems of the Caribbean

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Simon Cambers from Antigua

Pakistan, England and India eye third spot

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
England, Pakistan and India all have a chance to wrest the third spot in the ICC Test Championship table going into the final match of their series in West Indies and Pakistan

England bring in Jones for Read

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
After fielding an unchanged side for three Tests in a row - something unheard of in today's rollercoaster ride of Test and one-day cricket - England finally opted for a change, bringing in Geraint Jones for Chris Read, who, though extremely tidy

Yorkshire face up to life without Vaughan

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Yorkshire have accepted that their 2004 county campaign will have to take place without the services of Michael Vaughan, who will be on virtual non-stop international duty for the entire summer

Richards: some players are 'going backwards'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Viv Richards, the chairman of selectors, has admitted that he is running out of patience with the speed of progress of some members of the West Indies side.Richards's anger during West Indies' second-innings collapse was clearly captured by

Press call for changes at the top

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The newspapers in the Caribbean treated the defeat of West Indies at Bridgetown rather like the death of an elderly aunt

Chanderpaul dropped for fourth Test

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The West Indian selectors have resisted the urge to make wholesale changes to their batting line-up, after the feeble second-innings capitulation at Bridgetown that handed England their first series win in the Caribbean for 36 years

Lara vows to fight on

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Brian Lara has vowed to battle on as West Indies' captain, despite leading his team to their first home defeat against England for 36 years

Harmison jumps to third spot

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Stephen Harmison's incredible run with the ball in the West Indies - 22 wickets at 11 apiece - has catapulted him to joint third place in the PwC Test Ratings for bowlers

The history men

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
So England have done it

Vaughan: 'It was a team effort'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
"It still hasn't sunk in

Hoggard points the way to history

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
'Don't forget Matthew Hoggard,' insisted Michael Vaughan during the press conference after England's win in Trinidad

Logie fumes as Devon Smith sidelined for three weeks

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Devon Smith has been ruled out of the fourth Test in Antigua after a specialist told him that his fractured thumb would take three weeks to heal

Bajans bank the bucks

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Matthew Engel from Barbados

Hoggard hat-trick triggers another rout

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Once upon a time, Bridgetown was a fortress of West Indian cricket

Lara out to prove a point

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The third day of the third Test at Bridgetown will probably decide the outcome of this match, and much depends on whether Brian Lara can find his touch

Thorpe does it again

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Fidel Edwards hit back for West Indies - biut was trumped by a magnificent innings from England's saviour Graham Thorpe

Thorpe drags England back into the match

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Graham Thorpe, with one of his greatest innings, not only kept England in the third Test, but shifted the momentum of the match their way on another absorbing day at Bridgetown

Going with the flow

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Another dominant bowling performance has left England in command of the third Test, and judging by the morning papers, it was not just superlatives that were flowing in Barbados last night

West Indies v England, 3rd Test, Barbados

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
West Indies v England, 3rd Test, Barbados

Flintoff fires to give England control

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Andrew Flintoff emerged as England's hero of the day with a thoroughly deserved Test-best 5 for 58 as West Indies collapsed to 224 all out in the first day of the third Test at Bridgetown

Unprecedented security at Kensington Oval

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The usual laid-back approach to cricket at Bridgetown's Kensington Oval has been ditched as unprecedented security has been put in place ahead of the third Test which starts on Thursday

Windies prepare to defend Fortress Bridgetown

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Two down after two, and with most of the islanders finding 101 reasons to be depressed about the state of their national game, West Indies desperately need a change in fortune ... somehow

Gough: 'I never gave up hope'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Darren Gough insists he never gave up hope of earning a recall to England's one-day side, and has now set his sights on completing the double of 200 wickets in both forms of the game

Gough recalled by England

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Darren Gough and Steve Harmison have been recalled to England's one-day squad for their forthcoming seven-match series in the Caribbean

Logie goes on the offensive

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
As if the unrest in their camp could get any worse in the build-up to Thursday's crucial third Test in Barbados, West Indies' coach Gus Logie has gone onto the attack, accusing his team of lacking the mental strength and discipline to succeed in Test

Edwards back for Barbados

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Fidel Edwards, who missed the second Test with a side strain, has been named in West Indies' 14-man squad for the third Test in Barbados, which starts on Thursday (April 1)

Geraint Jones stakes his claim

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Graham Thorpe picked up where he left off in the Trinidad Test and Geraint Jones recorded his maiden representative half-century, as England built a healthy lead against a Carib Beer XI at the 3Ws Oval in Barbados

It's beer and skittles for England

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
England enjoyed a fairly low-key day in Bridgetown

A Beer match with a difference

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
England should be given a fairly tough time in their three-day warm-up match against a Carib Beer XI which starts at the 3Ws Oval in Bridgetown later today

England ponder one-day options

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
England's selectors face a tricky decision in the next few days as they prepare to finalise their squad for the seven-match one-day series that follows directly after the Tests in the Caribbean

A deafening silence

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Perhaps the most damning indictment of the state of cricket in the Caribbean is that yesterday's defeat in the Trinidad Test has been treated by the region's press with a resigned acceptance

Unprepared and uncaring

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Tony Cozier, the veteran broadcaster, has launched a stinging broadside at West Indies in the aftermath of their back-to-back defeats in the first two Tests

Lara and Jones fined

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Brian Lara and Simon Jones have both been found guilty of breaching Level One of the ICC's Code of Conduct, and have been fined half their match fees

Windies lurch from world-beaters to woeful losers

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Before the series, if you had said that England would have retained the Wisden Trophy after the first two Tests, and with some ease, most people would probably have accused you of having had a few too many rums

Vaughan: 'It's taken a hell of a lot of hard work'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
A jubilant Michael Vaughan and downcast Brian Lara faced the press after the defeat at Port-of-Spain

Ricky Skerritt resigns as manager

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Ricky Skerritt has resigned as West Indies manager following the defeat at Port-of-Spain

England wrap it up in half-an-hour

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
It didn't take long: inside half-an-hour England had knocked off the 28 runs they needed to secure victory, a 2-0 series lead, and retention of the Wisden Trophy

Lara reported by umpires

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Not much has gone right for Brian Lara in the last fortnight

Jones apologises for Sarwan outburst

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Simon Jones could face disciplinary action from the International Cricket Council after an excited celebration when dismissing Ramnaresh Sarwan during the afternoon session of the second Test at Port-of-Spain

England's discipline made the difference

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Nasser Hussain epitomised the difference between the two sides, says Freddie Auld

Bad light holds up England's surge for victory

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
England galloped towards victory on the fourth evening at Port-of-Spain, knocking off 71 of the 99 runs they needed in just ten overs before the umpires stepped in and took the players off, even though the batsmen were keen to continue

Patience, persistence, resistance

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Forget, if you can for just a minute, all the runs, risks and razzmatazz of modern cricket

Sarwan may be stripped of vice-captaincy

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
Ramnaresh Sarwan may be stripped of the West Indian vice-captaincy, according to a report in London's Sunday Times newspaper, for being seen partying in the stands after England had steamrolled to a ten-wicket victory in the first Test in

Thorpe extends England's lead

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT
The old'uns are always the best, as the hundreds of England fans who spent the afternoon worshipping Sir Mick Jagger would heartily agree