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This Day That Age
The M.C.C. was to send to the West Indies in the winter of 1953 a powerful English team. This news was received with jubilation in Trinidad and other West Indies colonies. Cricket writers in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados and British Guiana were unanimous that the M.C.C. was fully aware of the strength of West Indies at home, as the recent tour by Indian team had revealed. However, the West Indies Cricket Board of Control was flayed by critics for appointing I. B. Stollmeyer as captain against England. Jamaica Gleaner's Sports Editor `Strebot' Roberts denounced Stollmeyer's leadership in the India West Indies series as "unimaginative and tactless". Barbados Advocate's O. S. Coppir was scathing too, and wanted J. D. Goddard brought back as captain. It was felt that like England having Len Hutton and India having Vijay Hazare, the West Indies too should have a professional cricketer at its helm. Hazare, it was pointed out, had outsmarted Stollmeyer throughout the recent series, and if only Hazare had had another top bowler in his team the West Indies might have been tested even more severely. The WI Board had invited Frank Worrell to be Stollmeyer's deputy.
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