The West Indies too great for England

Windies out for the kill...... The West Indies set themselves for the ‘kill’ with another superb victory over England at Leeds in the match they won by eight wickets in the match played on July 12, 13, 14 and 15th 1984. This Test played at Headingly was intriguing. On the first three days the famous old Yorkshire ground was full as never before and the takings were 250,000 which was a record then. The England captain David Gower was not able to do anything of note, getting 2 in the first innings and 43 in the second as the West Indies ran circles around them.

England who batted first, were out for 270 and this was greatly due to the fine batting by Allan Lamb who made 100. For much of the first two days, England looked to be heading for a first innings lead. The top of the order was taken out by the new ball, Fowler and the new player Paul Terry failing. But Allan Lamb stayed on a wicket of increasing problems-height of bounce mainly and by counter attacking with good judgement Lamb played his way to a second consecutive century, something of a of a bonus against the Windies attack.

Lamb had Botham with him and England looked to be heading for a score of over 300, which obviously seemed to be a winning score. However, England’s tail ceased to wag and Downton too failed to make a big score.

So, England seemed to be somewhat sorry as the fine century by Lamb came to nothing. England were all out for 270.

But this was not enough and England found that it just would not topple the admirable Larry Gomes who has been as solid as the rock of Gibraltar on the tour. Larry Gomes kept pushing up to the ball and knocking it on either side of the bowler depending on the gap in the field. On a wicket of unpredictable bounce this was the obvious and indeed the only way to play.

The decisive stand for the West Indies was that between Gomes and Holding when England thought the Windies hatch was open. Holding made 59 in 55 balls.

He had batted well enough at Edgbaston. Now he hit Willis all over, hitting no fewer then five sixes off the old warhorse, who not long ago was steaming down the same hill as he destroyed Australia. The West Indies finally went past the England total by 32 runs and then it was England’s turn to bat again in the second innings. It was only Fowler and Gower who made runs to their liking and England’s second turn ended at 159 all out which gave them only a lead of 127 runs. Besides their somewhat poor batting all round, they dropped catches in the final stages but nothing could have stopped the West Indies. The target was almost insignificant with hindsight, it could be said that the combination of Gomes and Marshall was more lethal than that of Lamb and Allott.

West Indies ace paceman Malcolm Marshall who took 7 for 53 in the England 2nd Innings score of 159 seems to be happy with his best haul in Test cricket then.

England’s Allan Lamb forces West Indian bowler Baptiste to the fence during his fine innings of 100 in the England total of 270 in the third Test against West Indies at Leeds. Besides the first innings. West Indies made 302 in the first innings and 131 for 2 wickets to win the match by eight wickets.

England’s opening batsman Graeme Fowler is trapped leg before wicket by West Indies paceman Joel Garner for 10 in England’s first innings score of 270 in the Test at Leeds.

West Indian batsman Desmond Haynes gets a lucky four off England’s Pringle past the leaping wicket-keeper Downton. Haynes made 18 in the first innings and 43 in the second innings.

	SCOREBOARD
		
ENGLAND 1ST INNINGS 
G. Fowler lbw b Garner 	 			10
B.C. Broad c Lloyd b Harper 	 		32
V.P. Terry c Harper b Holding 	  		08
D.I. Gower lbw b Garner	  			02
A.J. Lamb b Harper 		 	       100
I.T. Botham c Duson b Baptiste 	 		45
P.R. Downton c Lloyd b Harper 	 		17
D.R. Pringle c Haynes b Holding	 		19
P.W. Allott b Holding 	  			03
N.G.B. Cook b Holding 	  			01
R.G.D. Willis not out 	  			04
EXTRAS (b4, lb7, nb18)	 			29
TOTAL 					       270

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-13, 2-43, 3-53, 4-87, 5-172, 6-236
		 7-237, 8-244, 9-254 
BOWLING (West Indies): J. Garner 30-11-73-2
		       M.D. Marshall 6-4-6-0
		       M.A. Holding 29.2-8-70-4
		       E. Baptiste 13-1-45-1
		       R.A. Harper 19-6-47-3 

WEST INDIES 1ST INNINGS 
C.G. Greenidge c Botham b Willis 	 	10
D.L. Haynes b Allott 	 			18   
H.A. Gomes not out			       104
I.V.A. Richards c Pringle b Allott	 	15
C.H. Lloyd c Gower b Cook 	 		48
P.J. Dugon lbw b Allott 	 		26
E.A.E. Baptiste c Broad b Allott 	 	00
R.A. Harper c Downton b Allott	  		00
M.A. Holding c Allott b Willis 	 		59	
J. Garner run out 	  			00
M.Marshall c Botham b Allott 		  	04
EXTRAS (lb3, nb15)	 			18
TOTAL 					       302

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-16, 2-43, 3-78, 4-148, 5-201, 6-206
		 8-288, 9-290 
BOWLING (England): R.G.D. Willis 18-0-123-2
		   P.W. Allott 26.5-7-61-6
		   I.T. Botham 7-0-45-0
		   D.R. Pringle 13-3-26-0
		   N.G.B. Cook 10-1-29-1

ENGLAND 2nd INNINGS 
G. Fowler C and b Marshall	 		50 
B.C. Broad c Baptiste b Marshall 	 	02
V.P. Terry lbw b Garner 	  		01
D.I. Gower c Dugon b Harper	 		43
A.J. Lamb lbw Marshall 	  			03
I.T. Botham c Dugon b Garner  	 		14
P.R. Downton c Dugon b Marshall  	 	27
D.R. Pringle lbw b Marshall 	  		02
P.W. Allott lbw b Marshall  	  		04
N.G.B. Cook c Lloyd b Marshall 	  		00
R.G.D. Willis not out 	  			05
EXTRAS (lb6, nb2)	  			08
TOTAL 					       150

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-10, 2-13, 3-104, 4-106, 5-107, 6-135
		 7-138, 8-140, 9-140 
BOWLING (West Indies): J. Garner 16-7-37-2
		       M.D. Marshall 26-9-53-7
		       M.A. Holding 7-1-31-0
		       R.A. Harper 16-8-30-1

WEST INDIES 2nd INNINGS 
C.G. Greenidge c Terry b Cook 			49
D.L. Haynes c Fowler b Cook  	 		43   
H.A. Gomes not out	  			02
I.V.A. Richards not out 	 		22
EXTRAS (lb2, nb13)	 			15
TOTAL (for 2 wkts)			       131

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-106, 2-108. 
BOWLING (England): R.G.D. Willis 8-1-40-0
		   P.W. Allott 7-2-24-0
		   D.R. Pringle 8.3-2-25-0
		   N.G.B. Cook 9-2-27-2