Category: West Indies

If you were going to tell the history of cricket in a handful of objects, the purple, wide-brimmed hat would be one of themThere’s solace in the old clips, especially of cricket. It’s not that they’re all that comforting, as such – not if you followed …

England’s 1968 tour of West Indies contained incident aplenty off the field but turgid cricket on it, until a gamble that failedThere can’t be many Tests with such an unexpected twist as that between England and West Indies in Port of Spain, 52 years a…