Series Name: | West Indian cricket team in England in 1950 |
Team1 Image: | WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg |
Team1 Name: | West Indies |
Team2 Image: | Flag_of_England.svg |
Team2 Name: | England |
From Date: | 6 May |
To Date: | 5 September 1950 |
Team1 Captain: | John Goddard |
Team2 Captain: | Norman Yardley Freddie Brown |
No Of Tests: | 4 |
Team1 Tests Won: | 3 |
Team2 Tests Won: | 1 |
Team1 Tests Most Runs: | Frank Worrell (539) |
Team2 Tests Most Runs: | Len Hutton (333) |
Team1 Tests Most Wickets: | Alf Valentine (33) |
Team2 Tests Most Wickets: | 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:
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.