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Test no. 293

England in West Indies Test Series - 1st Test
West Indies v England

1947/48 season

Played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, on 21,22,23,24,26 January 1948 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


West Indies 1st innings			R	4s	6s
	JB Stollmeyer	c Robertson b Ikin	78		0
	CL Walcott	b Laker	8		0
	ED Weekes	c Evans b Tremlett	35		0
	GE Gomez	b Laker	86		0
	GA Headley	b Laker	29		0
	RJ Christiani	lbw b Laker	1	0	0
	JDC Goddard	b Howorth	28		0
	EAV Williams	c Ikin b Laker	2	0	0
	W Ferguson	b Laker	0	0	0
	PEW Jones	not out	10		0
	BBM Gaskin	c Ikin b Laker	10		0
	Extras	(lb 4, w 2, nb 3)	9

	Total	(all out; 124 overs)	296	(2.38 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-18 (Walcott), 2-81 (Weekes), 3-185 (Stollmeyer), 4-245 (Headley), 5-246 (Gomez), 6-271 (Christiani), 7-273 (Williams), 8-273 (Ferguson), 9-279 (Goddard), 10-296 (Gaskin)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MF Tremlett	26	8	49	1	1.88
K Cranston	15	4	29	0	1.93
JC Laker	37	9	103	7	2.78
JT Ikin	16	3	38	1	2.37
R Howorth	30	8	68	1	2.26


England 1st innings			R	4s	6s
	JDB Robertson	lbw b Williams	80		0
	W Place	c Gomez b Goddard	12		0
	D Brookes	b Jones	10		0
	J Hardstaff jnr	b Williams	98		0
	JT Ikin	c Walcott b Williams	3	0	0
	GA Smithson	c Gomez b Jones	0	0	0
	K Cranston	run out	2	0	0
	R Howorth	c Goddard b Ferguson	14		0
	TG Evans	b Jones	26		0
	JC Laker	c Walcott b Jones	2	0	0
	MF Tremlett	not out	0	0	0
	Extras	(b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 1)	6

	Total	(all out; 110.2 overs)	253	(2.29 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-32 (Place), 2-67 (Brookes), 3-130 (Robertson), 4-153 (Ikin), 5-156 (Smithson), 6-176 (Cranston), 7-197 (Howorth), 8-250 (Hardstaff), 9-252 (Evans), 10-253 (Laker)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
PEW Jones	25.2	6	54	4	2.13
BBM Gaskin	11	0	30	0	2.72
EAV Williams	33	15	51	3	1.54
JDC Goddard	21	6	49	1	2.33
W Ferguson	14	1	52	1	3.71
GA Headley	6	1	11	0	1.83


West Indies 2nd innings			R	M	4s	6s
	JB Stollmeyer	c Evans b Howorth	31			0
	CL Walcott	c Ikin b Howorth	16			0
	ED Weekes	b Laker	25			0
	GE Gomez	st Evans b Howorth	0		0	0
	JDC Goddard	c Ikin b Laker	18			0
	RJ Christiani	lbw b Cranston	99			0
	EAV Williams	c Evans b Howorth	72	63		3
	PEW Jones	c Robertson b Howorth	7			0
	W Ferguson	not out	56			0
	BBM Gaskin	c Brookes b Howorth	7			0
	GA Headley	not out	7			0
	Extras	(b 6, lb 4, w 1, nb 2)	13

	Total	(9 wickets dec; 106 overs)	351	(3.31 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-46 (Walcott), 2-69 (Stollmeyer), 3-71 (Gomez), 4-87 (Weekes), 5-144 (Goddard), 6-240 (Williams), 7-252 (Jones), 8-301 (Christiani), 9-328 (Gaskin)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MF Tremlett	10	0	40	0	4.00
K Cranston	13	3	31	1	2.38
JC Laker	30	12	95	2	3.16
JT Ikin	12	1	48	0	4.00
R Howorth	41	8	124	6	3.02


England 2nd innings (target: 395 runs)			R	4s	6s
	JDB Robertson	not out	51		0
	D Brookes	c Walcott b Goddard	7		0
	R Howorth	b Ferguson	16		0
	K Cranston	lbw b Gaskin	8		0
	J Hardstaff jnr	c Gomez b Goddard	0	0	0
	W Place	not out	1	0	0
	Extras	(lb 3)	3

	Total	(4 wickets; 45.4 overs)	86	(1.88 runs per over)

Did not bat JT Ikin, GA Smithson,

TG Evans, JC Laker, MF Tremlett

Fall of wickets1-33 (Brookes), 2-55 (Howorth), 3-70 (Cranston), 4-71 (Hardstaff)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
PEW Jones	9	1	29	0	3.22
BBM Gaskin	10	4	15	1	1.50
EAV Williams	9	3	17	0	1.88
JDC Goddard	14	4	18	2	1.28
W Ferguson	3.4	1	4	1	1.09

Toss West Indies, who chose to bat first
Series 4-match series level 0-0

Test debuts D Brookes, JC Laker, W Place, GA Smithson and MF Tremlett (England); RJ Christiani, W Ferguson, BBM Gaskin, JDC Goddard, PEW Jones, CL Walcott and ED Weekes (West Indies)

Umpires CS Foster and JH Walcott

Close of play
21 Jan day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 244/3 (GE Gomez 85*, GA Headley 29*)
22 Jan day 2 - England 1st innings 150/3 (J Hardstaff jnr 42*, JT Ikin 3*)
23 Jan day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 117/4 (JDC Goddard 9*, RJ Christiani 28*)
24 Jan day 4 - England 2nd innings 60/2 (JDB Robertson 35*, K Cranston 2*)
25 Jan rest day
26 Jan day 5 - England 2nd innings 86/4 (45.4 ov) - end of match