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The West Indies cricket team toured England in the 1966 season to play a five-match Test series against England. West Indies won the series 3-1 with one match drawn. The tour was arranged at shorter notice than usual following the big success of the 1963 tour, with touring teams from New Zealand and South Africa "doubling up" in the 1965 season so that the West Indies could be brought back sooner than scheduled.

West Indian is the official term used by the . Use of the term. Despite the collapse of the Federation. The West Indies cricket team includes participants from Guyana, which is geographically located in South America. The West Indies in relation to the continental Americas.

The West Indian cricket team toured England in the 1900 season. The team played 17 matches between 11 June and 11 August 1900. There had been three tours by teams of English Amateurs to the West Indies in the mid-1890s and the idea of sending a combined West Indies team to England had gradually developed.

The West Indian cricket team toured England in the 1906 season. The team played 19 matches between 11 June and 18 August 1906 of which 13 were regarded as first-class. A somewhat more formal selection process seems to have been followed than for the 1900 tour but the team was still selected by representatives from Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad. Strangely Cumberbatch was invariably reported in contemporary publications as being ". Cumberbatch" whereas it appears that he was actually ". Cumberbatch being a different player. 13 of the team departed from Barbados aboard RMS "Trent" on 22 May arriving in Southampton on 4 June via Cherbourg. Bancroft and Cameron were already in England. Mr Mallet met the team at Southampton. There had been three tours by teams of English Amateurs to the West Indies in the mid 1890s and the idea of sending a combined West Indies team to England had gradually developed.

The West Indian cricket team that toured England in the 1928 season was the first to play Test cricket. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games. Defeat by Ireland in a three-day game was followed by a tight victory over Middlesex.

The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1933, playing three Test matches, losing two of them and drawing the other The batting was led by George Headley, who scored almost twice as many runs as the next highest aggregate and averaged 66 runs per innings (the next best was 39.

A breakaway team of West Indian cricketers began a tour of South Africa today to a standing ovation from a packed, multiracial crowd despite criticism over the tour from South African blacks and from abroad. The West Indian cricketers have been condemned by their own governments and cricket authorities. Black organizations in South Africa have condemned the tour and said they would try to encourage boycotts. But the public response to today's opening game appeared to make that unlikely