English national cricket team in the West Indies for the 2008-09 season

The tour of England's national cricket team to the West Indies in the 2008/09 season took place from January 25th to April 3rd, 2009. The international cricket tour was part of the 2008/09 international cricket season and included five test matches , one twenty20 and five ODIs . The West Indies won the Test series 1-0 and the Twenty20, while England won the ODI series 3-2.

Stages

Bridgetown North Sound St. John's Gros Islet Port of Spain

Tour venues

Kingston

Tour venues in Jamaica

Georgetown

Tour venues

The following stadiums were designated as venues for the tour and announced on May 28, 2008.

city	country	Stadion	capacity	Games
Bridgetown	Barbados	Kensington oval	11,000	4. test; 3. ODI; 4. ODI
Georgetown	Guyana	Providence Stadium	20,000	1. ODI; 2. ODI
Gros Islet	Saint Lucia	Beausejour Stadium	20,000	5. ODI
Kingston	Jamaica	Sabina Park	20,000	1st test
North Sound	Antigua and Barbuda	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium	10,000	2nd test
Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago	Queen's Park Oval	25,000	5. test; 1. T20
St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua Recreation Ground	12,000	3rd test

Squad lists

England named their squad on December 29, 2008. The West Indies named their test squad on January 23, their Twenty20 squad on March 11, and their ODI squad on March 16, 2009.

test		ODI		Twenty20
West Indies	England	West Indies	England	West Indies	England
Chris Gayle ( K ) Lionel Baker Sulieman Benn Shivnarine Chanderpaul Fidel Edwards Ryan Hinds Amit Jaggernauth Xavier Marshall Brendan Nash Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin ( vK & wk ) Dale Richards Ramnaresh Sarwan Lendl Simmons Devon Smith Jerome Taylor	Andrew Strauss ( K ) Alastair Cook ( UK ) Tim Ambrose ( wk ) James Anderson Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Steve Harmison Amjad Khan Monty Panesar Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior ( wk ) Adil Rashid Owais Shah Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann	Chris Gayle ( K ) Denesh Ramdin ( vK & wk ) Lionel Baker Dwayne Bravo Shivnarine Chanderpaul Fidel Edwards Nikita Miller Kieron Pollard Daren Powell Ravi Rampaul Dale Richards Darren Sammy Ramnaresh Sarwan Lendl Simmons Devon Smith	Andrew Strauss ( K ) James Anderson Gareth Batty Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Steven Davies ( wk ) Andrew Flintoff Steve Harmison Amjad Khan Dimitri Mascarenhas Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior ( wk ) Adil Rashid Owais Shah	Denesh Ramdin ( K & wk ) Dwayne Bravo Lionel Baker Sulieman Benn Shivnarine Chanderpaul Fidel Edwards Andre Fletcher Kieron Pollard Darren Sammy Ramnaresh Sarwan Lendl Simmons Devon Smith Jerome Taylor	Andrew Strauss ( K ) James Anderson Gareth Batty Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Steven Davies ( wk ) Andrew Flintoff Steve Harmison Amjad Khan Dimitri Mascarenhas Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior ( wk ) Adil Rashid Owais Shah

Tour matches

January 25-27 Scorecard	Basseterre	England XI 424-8d (91.5) & 265-5d (58)	-	St Kitts Invitational XI 251 (64.3) & 221 (54)
		England XI wins with 217 runs

January 29th - 31st Scorecard	Basseterre	West Indies A 574-8d (149.5) & 16-0 (5)	-	England XI 414 (90.5)
		draw

February 22-23 Scorecard	Lucas Street	England XI 351-8d (75) & 142-2 (27.2)	-	BCA President's XI 245 (63.4)
		draw

March 14th Scorecard	Pointe-à-Pierre	England XI 299-8 (50)	-	WIPA XI 248 (43.4)
		England XI wins with 51 runs

Test matches

First test in Kingston

February 4-7 scorecard	Kingston	England 318 (122.2) & 51 (33.2)	-	West Indies 392 (157.4)
		West Indies wins with one innings and 23 runs

Second test in North Sound

February 13 scorecard	North Sound	England 7-0 (1.4)	-	West Indies
		draw

The game was abandoned after ten balls bowled because the bowlers were unable to find enough grip in the sandy outfield to bowl safely . Instead, a new test was scheduled at the Antigua Recreation Ground at short notice . The Sir Vivian Richards Stadium was then closed by the world association for international cricket.

Third test in St. John's

February 15-19 Scorecard	Saint John's	England 566-9d (165.2) & 221-8d (50)	-	West Indies 285 (89.2) & 370-9 (128)
		draw

Fourth test in Bridgetown

February 26th - March 2nd scorecard	Bridgetown	England 600-6d (153.2) & 279-2d (81)	-	West Indies 749-9d (194.4)
		draw

Fifth test in Port of Spain

March 6-10 scorecard	Port of Spain	England 546-6d (158.5) & 237-6d (38.4)	-	West Indies 544 (178.4) & 114-8 (65.5)
		draw

Due to excessive appeals, the Englishman Monty Panesar was fined and his teammate Amjad Khan was warned.

Twenty20 International in Port of Spain

March 15 scorecard	Port of Spain	England 121 (19.1)	-	West Indies 123-4 (18)
		West Indies wins with 6 wickets

One-day internationals

First ODI in Georgetown

March 20 scorecard	Georgetown	England 270-7 (50)	-	West Indies 244-7 (46.2 / 46.2)
		England wins with 1 run ( D / L method )

Second ODI in Georgetown

March 22nd scorecard	Georgetown	West Indies 264-8 (50)	-	England 243 (48.2)
		West Indies wins by 21 runs

Third ODI in Bridgetown

March 27 scorecard	Bridgetown	England 117 (41.3)	-	West Indies 117-2 (14.4 / 44)
		West Indies wins with 8 wickets ( D / L method )

Fourth ODI in Bridgetown

March 29 scorecard	Bridgetown	West Indies 239-9 (50)	-	England 136-1 (18.3 / 20)
		England wins with 9 wickets ( D / L method )

Fifth ODI in Gros Islet

April 3 scorecard	Gros Islet	England 172-5 (29/29)	-	West Indies 146 (28/29)
		England wins with 26 runs

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	5	6th	626	104.33	291	3	1
Andrew Strauss	England	5	9	541	67.62	169	3	0
Paul Collingwood	England	5	7th	430	61.42	161	2	1
Kevin Pietersen	England	5	8th	406	58.00	102	1	3
Alastair Cook	England	5	9	384	54.85	139 *	1	3
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Graeme Swann	England	3	180.2	19th	24.05	5/57	2	0
Stuart Broad	England	5	131	12	30.58	5/85	1	0
Sulieman Benn	West Indies	4th	162.4	12	39.91	4/31	0	0
Jerome Taylor	West Indies	4th	100.2	11	29.00	5/11	1	0
James Anderson	England	4th	129	9	38.00	3/24	0	0
Fidel Edwards	West Indies	5	126.2	9	54.88	3/151	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Andrew Strauss	England	5	5	204	51.00	105	1	1
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	5	5	201	67.00	112 *	1	0
Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	5	5	170	34.00	74	0	2
Chris Gayle	West Indies	5	5	148	29.60	80	0	1
Ravi Bopara	West Indies	5	5	146	29.20	44	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Kieron Pollard	West Indies	5	30.2	9	17.66	2/16	0	0
James Anderson	England	5	38	9	21.11	3/37	0	0
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	5	34.3	8th	22.12	4/19	0	0
Stuart Broad	England	5	36	8th	26.75	3/41	0	0
Andrew Flintoff	England	3	19th	6th	16.00	5/19	1	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	1	1	59	59.00	59	0	1
Steven Davies	England	1	1	27	27.00	27	0	0
Lendl Simmons	West Indies	1	1	23		23 *	0	0
Andrew Strauss	England	1	1	22nd	22.00	22nd	0	0
Paul Collingwood	England	1	1	14th	14.00	14th	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Sulieman Benn	West Indies	1	4th	3	8.00	3/24	0	0
Amjad Khan	England	1	4th	2	17.00	2/34	0	0
Lionel Baker	West Indies	1	2	1	12.00	1/12	0	0
Darren Sammy	West Indies	1	4th	1	14.00	1/14	0	0
Fidel Edwards	West Indies	1	3.1	1	18.00	1/18	0	0
James Anderson	England	1	3	1	19.00	1/19	0	0
Stuart Broad	England	1	3	1	26.00	1/26	0	0
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	1	4th	1	34.00	1/34	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Ramnaresh Sarwan
ODI	Andrew Strauss

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Jerome Taylor
3rd test	Ramnaresh Sarwan
4th test	Ramnaresh Sarwan
5th test	Matt Prior
1. T20	Ramnaresh Sarwan
1. ODI	Paul Collingwood
2. ODI	Shivnarine Chanderpaul
3. ODI	Dwayne Bravo
4. ODI	Andrew Strauss
5. ODI	Andrew Flintoff

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ England deny Caribbean itinerary influenced by IPL ( English ) Cricinfo. May 28, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
2. ^ Vaughan misses out on the West Indies ( English ) Cricinfo. December 29, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
3. ↑ West Indies include Dale Richards in Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 23, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
4. ↑ Bravo gears up for Twenty20 international ( English ) Cricinfo. March 11, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
5. ↑ Gayle returns to ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. March 19, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
6. ↑ Andrew Millar: Test abandoned after sandpit farce ( English ) Cricinfo. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
7. ↑ All eyes on Recreation Ground after second Test abandonment ( English ) Cricinfo. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
8. ↑ [Sir Viv stadium suspended from international cricket Sir Viv stadium suspended from international cricket] ( English ) Cricinfo. March 17, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
9. ↑ Panesar and Amjad fined for excessive appealing ( English ) Cricinfo. March 10, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / The Wisden Trophy, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / The Wisden Trophy, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / England in West Indies ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / England in West Indies ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
14. ↑ Records / England in West Indies T20I Match, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
15. ↑ Records / England in West Indies T20I Match, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.